Daijiworld Media Network - Sports

Melbourne, Feb 3: For the second and final match between Austrailia and India, the Twenty2o games have been shifted to the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) here on Friday February 3.

A women's Twenty20 match between Australia and New Zealand will precede the contest in the afternoon.

India is expecting to bring in some changes after their not-too-great performance at Sydney's ANZ Stadium on Wednesday February 1. Skipper MS Dhoni played three spinners -- R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Rahul Sharma -- despite torrential downpour in Sydney in the lead-up to the first T20. Dhoni admitted that the dampy weather did not work in their favour as the spin trio conceded 108 runs from 13 overs.

Hussey, who was declared Man of the Series in the just-concluded Big Bash League, felt that Indians were short of T20 match practice at Sydney. David Hussey, who plays for Victoria in state cricket, while talking to the media, said, "It's a big advantage coming from the Big Bash T20 tournament into the international arena. I think it's very important to continue the momentum going forward and play the perfect game tomorrow night. Most of the Indian guys haven't perhaps played T20 of late." He further added, "I thought the Indians fielded and bowled particularly well early. I just thought our bowling and fielding trumped theirs. We were lucky enough to get a few early wickets and took the game away from the Indians right from the start."

Speaking of David Warner's remarkable switch-hit off R Ashwin on Wednesday, Hussey said, "Davey is a very classy player, he can bat right-handed or left-handed. It's just a new invention of Twenty20 cricket and I think it definitely should be allowed. I think everything is snowballing from Twenty20 cricket. You see in baseball there are people who bat both sides of the plate so there's no reason why you can't do it in cricket. Davey is probably a pioneer. Hopefully a few of the younger kids coming through can work at those skills."