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    "title": "'India will struggle to match Riaz's show against Australia'",
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    "editor1": "<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Sydney, March 22 (IANS) Former India bowling coach Joe Dawes doubts whether the defending champions can replicate the devastating impact Pakistan speedster Wahab Riaz had when they play Australia in Thursday&#39;s cricket World Cup semi-final.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Dawes, who worked as India&#39;s coach between February 2012 and October 2014, on Sunday also said Mahendra Singh Dhoni&#39;s men will be confronted with the psychological baggage of their winless Australian summer campaign against the Cup co-hosts.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Riaz, 29, is still the talk of the World Cup despite Pakistan being on their way home, owing to a memorable spell in Adelaide, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">The left-armer&#39;s spell removed opener David Warner and skipper Michael Clarke and had Shane Watson behaving like a cat on a hot tin roof on a responsive Adelaide Oval pitch. Riaz had the home team under pressure during their 214-run chase.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">But Australia eventually managed to weather the storm and won by six wickets.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">The Indians will note the vulnerability of the Australian batsmen in their quarter-final. But while their pace trio of Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami and Mohit Sharma has improved a lot, they don&#39;t have a Riaz clone in their line-up, said Dawes.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">&quot;No doubt, they&#39;ll try that. (But) around the wicket is going to be a bit harder than just having a left-hander there,&quot; he said on Sunday.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">&quot;They will have watched that and will give it a go, and Umesh has definitely got the pace to do it, but he&#39;s not an overly tall man so that sort of changes the trajectory and the bounce,&quot; he said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">The left-armers, Dawes said, &quot;are proving to be quite difficult throughout the whole tournament.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Dawes feels that even though Duncan Fletcher is a clever coach, India don&#39;t have a left-arm pacer to repeat Pakistan&#39;s Riaz havoc.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">&quot;They&#39;ll be doing their homework and will give it a crack. Fletch (Fletcher) is a pretty astute coach. He&#39;ll be watching all of these things and he&#39;ll look to try and bring that in somewhere and give it a whirl,&quot; he said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">&quot;But the left-hander is a big advantage and that&#39;s where the Indians don&#39;t have anyone with real pace, or any left-hand bowlers here at the moment.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Shami has 17 wickets at an average of 13 in the World Cup to be third behind left-armers Trent Boult (New Zealand) and Mitchell Starc (Australia) on the wicket tally. The right-arm seamer has been skipper Dhoni&#39;s key man.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">After four months in the country, his success is an indication that India have finally found their range.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">But after being unable to register a win against Australia throughout a Test series and One-Day International (ODI) tri-series campaign, there are undeniable mental hurdles to overcome, according to Dawes.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">&quot;During the Test series they really struggled for consistency. They bowled some good balls, then really let the pressure off.&quot;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">&quot;It looks like maybe adapting to the conditions and getting their lengths right they&#39;ve really improved their consistency so they&#39;re building pressure now,&quot; the Queenslander told the Sydney Morning Herald.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Dawes said that skipper Dhoni, 33, is the man behind India&#39;s turnaround but his team faces a big challenge against Australia.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">&quot;M.S. (Dhoni) leads them well in One-Day cricket and they&#39;ve sort of got on a roll. I still think under pressure they&#39;ll be tested. I&#39;m not sure they&#39;ve been tested a great deal under pressure yet.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">According to Dawes, &quot;That&#39;s going to be the real challenge in a semi-final against Australia, where there is that little bit of no doubt psychological damage over the summer where they&#39;ve been hit around a bit.&quot;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">&quot;I think they have got the tools to hurt any side, it&#39;s just whether or not they can be consistent enough to put the ball in the right area on the day, which they have and haven&#39;t done throughout the summer,&quot; Dawes signed off.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n",
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