West Indies Series "Great Opportunity" For Australia To Start T20 World Cup Preparation, Says Mitchell Starc

Australian pacer Mitchell Starc believes that the upcoming T20 series against the West Indies will be a great opportunity for the Australian team to prepare for T20 World Cup.

Australia pacer Mitchell Starc has said the West Indies series is a "great opportunity" for the side to prepare for the upcoming T20 World Cup slated to be played in October this year. Australia will face West Indies in five T20Is and three ODIs, beginning Friday, July 9. Starc, who could make his first appearance at the T20 World Cup in nine years, feels the upcoming games will help him get into the rhythm of T20 cricket. "It's a great opportunity for the group to start preparing with a bit more focus on that World Cup," ESPNcricinfo quoted Starc as saying. "Don't think I've played 10 T20s in the last four years let alone in the space of a few weeks so personally, it would be nice to get a bit of a rhythm of T20 cricket," he added. The Australian pacer is working on fine-tuning his white-ball skills and has changed his preparation for the West Indies series keeping T20 cricket in mind. "The back end of the summer I was heavily focused on the red-ball so put the white-ball to the side. To prepare for this tour it's all been white-ball focused with what's coming up in the next few months," ESPNcricinfo quoted Starc as saying.