Aussies will miss Zampa’s ability to zip ball: Sriram

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Aussies will miss Zampa’s ability to zip ball: Sriram

Saturday, 04 February 2023 | PTI | Bengaluru

Former Australia assistant coach Sridharan Sriram is disappointed that spinner Adam Zampa is not with the touring team for the four-match Test series against India beginning on February 9.
Sriram said that Zampa was someone who could "hold" his action for long periods of time like Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja, something which Ashton Agar and Mitchell Swepson might find difficult in tough subcontinental conditions.
Veteran tweaker Nathan Lyon, Agar, leg-spinner Swepson and young off-spinner Todd Murphy got the nod in the 18-member Australia squad with Zampa missing out.
Sriram, who served the Australian team for six years, has seen Zampa evolve his game, and felt the 30-year-old wrist spinner's ability to zip the ball would be hugely missed by Pat Cummins' side during the Border-Gavaskar series.
"I would have personally loved to see Zamps bowl here (in India), because he's got the pace, he's got that zip off the pitch," Sriram was quoted as saying by 'Sydney Morning Herald' on Friday.
"That's something I keep an eye out for, who has got the ability to beat you off the pitch, so I think that Zamps has got that," said Sriram who has also played eight ODIs for India between 2000 and 2004.
Sriram, also a domestic heavyweight having scored more than 9,500 first-class runs, added Zampa was extremely keen to tour India and had even called him up a couple of times.
"He wanted it more than anyone, he wanted to play Test matches in India, he had called me a couple of times a couple of months ago saying 'Sri, I'm so excited that I could be on that tour', so he wanted it and he started to play first-class cricket for NSW. He did well, three wickets in each innings, so he's pretty disappointed that he's not on this tour.”

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