Top 5 Learnings for India from Australia's 3-0 whitewash of Pakistan

#4 Make Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood bowl particularly long spells

Starc has often struggled to maintain his rhythm when asked to bowl long spells

In this home summer, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood have bowled a combined tally of 591.5 overs across both Tests and ODIs thus far. 292.4 of those overs came in the 3-match series against Pakistan.

Due to the absence of a viable fifth-bowler, the duo had to keep running in and finding the breakthroughs. While Hazlewood‘s consistency did not falter, Starc appeared to struggle with the workload as the series progressed.

From India’s point of view, it will be imperative that skipper Steven Smith does not get to use his two strike bowlers in short bursts. If the Australian spinners are not allowed to settle down, he won’t have any choice but to force his seamers to bowl much longer than they would like and thus expose them to burnout.