Brisbane, Dec 03: Australian skipper Steve Waugh urged his teammates to guard against complacency ahead of the first cricket test against India beginning tomorrow and said the Indian line-up had some world-class batsmen who could not be taken lightly. Waugh also did not put it beyond the Indian batsmen to stand up to home bowling on a quick wicket at Gabba.
"They are world class batsmen and to me, world class batsmen can handle most situations," Waugh told reporters here.
"It is an important tour for Indian cricket and they see it as an opportunity to address the situation."
The test skipper, who is to retire after the last of the four-tests at Sydney (Jan 2-6), had words of praise for Indian bowlers as well.
"They also have bowlers who can swing a cricket ball and not many bowlers can do that. If you include the two spinners and Agarkar, they have five bowlers we know who could take wickets."
Waugh did not think the team enjoyed a psychological advantage after the way it went after Indian left-arm pacemen Zaheer Khan and Ashish Nehra in one-day internationals in recent times.
"One-day cricket is rushed. Test cricket always gives you time to settle in. In a longer game, there are a lot of moments when you could come back and make up for it. In one-day cricket it is all over before you know." Bureau Report