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Captain Steve Smith says lifting the T20 World Cup trophy is the aim after the Australia squad arrivedin India for the ICC tournament.
SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Smith, Australia captain
(on Australia not winning an ICC World T20 yet and about David Warner batting at number four)
"Look, traditionally we haven't done as well as we would have liked to in this format of the game. This is a tournament that has eluded us, so we are here to try and win it. As for David Warner,we have obviously got a lot of guys who can bat up the top of the order, he is fitting quite well at number four. That doesn't mean that he is going to bat at number four in this tournament, I think for us it is about being flexible and summing up the conditions, who we are playing against and try and match up as well as we can, but he certainly did a very good job at number four as well."
SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Smith, Australia captain
(on how settled his team is)
"No, we feel pretty settled, I think we have got 15 guys who can give this tournament a real shape. I think we played some pretty good cricket over in South Africa to win that series there. They produced some wickets that replicated these sort of conditions as much as they could, which was nice...and guys have stepped up and they are in good form. We have got a good squad together and its going to take a squad mentality for us to do well in this tournament."
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Smith aims to lift T20 crown for Australia
Sunday, March 13 2016Category:Cricket