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No holding back against minnows Bangladesh, warns Aussie coach
Darwin (Australia), June 13: The all-conquering Australian cricketers will not be easing up when they take on minnows Bangladesh in a two-Test series in Australia`s north next month, coach John Buchanan said here today.
Darwin (Australia), June 13: The all-conquering Australian cricketers will not be easing up when they take on minnows Bangladesh in a two-Test series in Australia's north next month, coach John Buchanan said here today.
The Bangladeshis should be no match for the world champions in either a two-match Test series or their three one-dayers in Darwin and Cairns.
But Buchanan said Australia will not be holding back and a full-strength side will be named to play against the modest Asian cricket nation.
"Our game will always be to be as aggressive as we can be and to try and put our opposition under as much pressure as we can, right from the word go, so that won't change," Buchanan told reporters.
The Australians may have had an exhausting 10-month schedule of cricket and are just back from a four-Test, seven one-day international series in the West Indies, but Buchanan said the players want to continue their dominance at the new tropical Test venues.
"Those players who played both the one-day and the Test matches, they were certainly feeling the pinch through the West Indies tour," he said.
"But with four or five weeks off... Coming to a new venue, playing a new team, in something that will begin a tradition (of cricket in northern Australia), I think really excites them."
Bureau Report