THESE AREN’T SURFACES FOR 200-PLUS TOTALS, SAYS RATHOUR

PERTH: There have been just two 200-plus scores so far, both at Sydney which has the slowest pitch with the second-lowest bounce among this T20 World Cup’s venues.

The fast bowling in this tournament has been exceptionally good. So good that five out of six bowlers to return an economy of under five in this Super 12 round are pacers. Sam Curran has a five-wicket haul. Trent Boult picked four wickets against Sri Lanka on Saturday. Movement off the pitch and in the air has been encouraging enough to deploy slips, lowering powerplay scores and prompting batters to be more careful.

India batting coach Vikram Rathour feels this tournament may not see high scores.

“I don’t think these are 200, 200-plus wickets, so we’ll need to adapt; I think we have done pretty well in that regard so far,” he said at the pre-match press conference here on Saturday.

“We are looking to adapt. Of course, playing with intent is always the goal. But then we need to take into account the conditions that we are playing on, the surfaces we are playing on.”