After white-ball success, Swepson sizes up India with red ball

Sydney, Dec 8 : Australias leg-spin duo Mitchell Swepson and Adam Zampa shared four wickets and gave away just 44 runs in seven overs to help Australia win the third T20 International by 12 runs as consolation on Tuesday.
But Swepson, who was the more successful of the two picking three of those wickets — Shikhar Dhawan, Sanju Samson and Shreyas Iyer, has still a lot of cricket to play over the next few days unlike the limited-overs specialist Zampa whose international season gets a break.
The 27-year-old Swepson, who is part of the Test squad, should have been playing the three-day tour game between India A and Australia A. He, however, had to miss that as he was called up for the T20Is as an injury replacement for Ashton Agar.
The leg-spinner, who won man of the match award for Tuesday’s show, now returns to days’ format and will play the three-day tour game against the Indians that begins on December 11.
“The plan is to play Aussie A game at the Sydney Cricket Ground and then fly to Adelaide. I haven’t played pink-ball game for a long time. I hope I can take some wickets at the SCG in that game. There is plenty of cricket to come,” Swepson told reporters during a media interaction.
“If given an opportunity (in Tests), I can draw from this performance. Plans (on bowling) will change from tonight’s game. Overs in the middle against quality opposition with results and wickets always help, whether it is white ball or red ball. On the international stage, it has done my bowling a world of good and my confidence in my bowling is going to benefit from that i.e just being around the guys and the team and just showing what I can do at this level,” Swepson said.