Mitchell Starc Looking Forward To Adapting From One Format To Another In A Tight Turnaround Season

Australia’s pace spearhead Mitchell Starc is looking forward to the national team’s action-packed upcoming season that includes plenty of critical assignments. Australia will embark on a tour of the West Indies and Bangladesh to finetune their T20 World Cup team combination and preparations. Mitchell Starc believes it would be an interesting prospect for multi-format players to switch from one format to another quickly.

Mitchell Starc has not played for the national team since the Australian summer this year and opted out of IPL 2021 to keep himself in shape for the international commitments. The left-arm seamer is a vital part of Australia’s bowling attack and Cricket Australia would want him fit and firing for the T20 World Cup in the UAE and the home Ashes series. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic means that travellers returning to Australia have to spend 14 days in quarantine.

Mitchell Starc stated that it’s an interesting schedule for the multi-format players to adapt to and hopes that Cricket Australia has a plan in place. The 31-year old underlined that with the world constantly changing and with the added quarantine every time they tour a nation, there exist plenty of question marks.

“It’s a very interesting one. I’m sure Cricket Australia are thinking about it and putting plans in place. The way of the world at the moment throws up a lot hurdles, and then you are throwing two weeks of quarantine, like we are going to have to do coming back from this tour as well; there’s a lot of question marks,” Starc stated as quoted by ESPN Cricinfo.

I don’t think there’re any hurdles to get around in playing cricket under quarantine conditions: Mitchell Starc

But Mitchell Starc remains ready to tackle the challenges every country throws in, referring to how they played in Sydney and Brisbane earlier this year under strict restrictions. The New South Wales-born cricketer believes that these conditions are for the government and the cricket stakeholders to work out and he believes they would come up with workable solutions.

“You look back to the summer, and we played Sydney under restrictions; Brisbane was under full quarantine, so there’s certainly precedence set there in how we approach different games, especially in Australia. In that respect, I don’t think there’re any hurdles to get around in playing cricket under quarantine conditions; it’s just some of the finer details that government and cricket will have to work together,” he added.

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