Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting hinted spin will play a crucial role in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019. Part of head coach Justin Langer's support staff, Ponting said the defending champions have the ingredients to defend their title but handling spin will be crucial.
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00:00 Is there a checklist of things that you think a squad needs to attend to in a World Cup
00:07 situation? Perhaps different from other situations?
00:15 No, I don't think so. I don't think that you need to treat a World Cup any different
00:19 to any other tournament that you play because at the end of the day it actually is no different.
00:24 It's a long tournament. I think the biggest thing you probably need to be wary of with
00:27 World Cups is just how hard you train, how often you train and don't use your whole tank
00:32 up too early in the tournament. I think that's the really important thing. It's easy to get
00:37 caught up in the hype and want to work harder and try harder and all those sort of things
00:43 around a World Cup and that's not the way it needs to be. If anything, I reckon you
00:47 can almost get a feeling of going into the first part of the tournament almost feeling
00:51 a little bit underdone and then try to build up and start playing your best cricket through
00:55 the middle of the tournament and towards the end and hopefully peak at the right time.
00:58 That's certainly what happened in good World Cup campaigns that I was a part of. These
01:02 boys are going really well now and we'll have a pretty light day for them tomorrow and a
01:07 light day on Friday and make sure that they're ready to go for a big test against England
01:11 on Saturday.
01:11 What do you see as the key to winning this World Cup?
01:14 I said a while ago, I think the way that we play spin and the way that we bowl spin I
01:20 think will have a big impact on where this Australian team goes in this tournament. We've
01:25 obviously got the fast bowling side of things really well under control and I think all
01:28 of our batsmen play fast bowling particularly well as well. It's been an area that this
01:32 team has been working hard at and trying to address for a long time and then you wind
01:36 the clock back a few weeks and the boys win a one day series in India against quality
01:40 spin bowling. All the hard work that they're doing there is starting to pay off. Once again,
01:45 those sort of things are great signs coming here.
01:50 What else do they need to work on?
01:51 I just think it's building on what they've been building on over the last few months.
01:56 You wind the clock back 12 months ago when there were some pretty dark scenes around
02:00 Australia's one day cricket or even three or four months ago it was pretty much the
02:03 same. That's long behind them now. They've got a group of players that have been together
02:08 for quite a while and know each other's roles. They know the roles that they need to play
02:12 on the team and I think if the boys can perform those roles anywhere near their best then
02:16 I think this team will be as hard to beat as anybody else.
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