Captain Australia Steve Smith says that his team is confident that he can face the quality attack in India in the semi -finals of the Dubai Champions Cup on Tuesday.
The two teams will face in the Dubai International Stadium in a match in the 2023 World Cup final, which Australia won in Ahmed Abad.
Australia defeated its competitors in England with five share in their opening match, but their next match was abandoned by the rains in the Pakistani cities in Rawalbandi and Lawar.
India achieved three victories of three in Group A by beating New Zealand on Sunday, which was delivered by the four spinning on Saab Stadium.
Varun Chakravarthy got 5-42 in Dubai in its second international to increase his hopes of choice.
“Yes, I do not mean, not only Chakravarthy, I think the rest of their spin is also quality,” Smith told reporters on Monday.
“So I think for us, the game is likely to have won and lost how we play its rotation, especially in the medium term, the way we get there. It will be a challenge.
“I think there will be some rotation, with its appearance. Yes, we have to face it … We have some options we can do.”
World champions are missing many main players, including fast archers, Pat Kamens, Josh Hazliowood and Mitchell Stark for injuries.
But Smith said that they could invite the spinning part -time, including Travis Head and Marnus Labuschaghne, to support Adam Zamba and Jalin Maxwell on a path believed to be “looks a dry surface.”
“We have a lot of part -time options that can definitely play a role here and two fronts as well,” he said.
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Cooper Connolly, one of the founders around the left weapons, joined the team as a substitute for Matio Short, who was excluded from the rest of the championship due to the thigh injury.
Australia and Group B from South Africa traveled to Dubai from Pakistan without knowing who will play in the semi -finals, which were determined after the India -Numal match.
India has been criticized for playing all its matches in one place, in Dubai, while the other teams flow between three Pakistani cities and the United Arab Emirates.
India refused to play in Pakistan, the host nation for political reasons.
But Smith played any imagined defect. “He finally guessed us,” Smith said in his team.
“We have had a little re -appointment and an opportunity to spend two days here outside a very strict bubble, I think, in Pakistan with security and things. It was good to have only a few days of cold here, a little training.”
Australia beat India with six share in the 2023 World Cup final, with its head, which was not defeated 137.
“I mean, there is pressure every time you play in a big game,” Smith said from Heid.
“But, as we know, Travis stood in many of them in the past. As you know, it seemed the other night against Afghanistan.
“I am sure that he will look out here and play the same way he played for a long time, good structure, good aggression.”
South Africa faces New Zealand in the second semi -finals in Lahore on Wednesday.