'Indians won't enjoy Tait'
Considering that the Indian batsmen don't really relish fast bowling, Australia should pick Shaun Tait ahead of Brad Hogg and unleash a four-pronged pace attack to knock down the visitors, advocates Michael Kasprowicz.
"I'd go with four quicks. When you are looking for the bowlers who are going to get you 20 wickets ... On a drop-in wicket it doesn't really offer a lot of turn," he said.
"Nothing against Brad Hogg or anything, he's a fantastic bowler. I just think the Indian batsmen are seasoned campaigners against spin bowling and what they don't particularly like is fast bowling," Kasprowicz was quoted as saying by the Australian Associated Press (AAP), a news agency.
"Shaun Tait bowling yorkers at 160kmph, if you ask most batsmen around, they don't particularly enjoy it.
"Certainly if it's swinging in at your toes, it's not all that comfortable to play," he reasoned.
Hogg, however, enjoys the backing of skipper Ricky Ponting and vice captain Adam Gilchrist, both of whom believe having a spinner would add variety to the attack.
But Kasprowicz believes part-time spinners like Michael Clarke would be more than enough.
"The mix of Brett Lee and Stuart Clark with left-armer Mitchell Johnson's variation and Shaun Tait as well, you have an arsenal there to go hard at them," he said.
"You've always got (part-time spinners) Andrew Symonds and Michael Clarke if you did want to change things around." And having four pacers would not make the attack one-dimensional, he asserted.
"Each of those quick bowlers are different in their own way and I think there is enough variation there."
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