Bat dominated ball in the series, so death-overs is really not a concern: McDonald

Andrew McDonald. Axar, who was brought in as a replacement for Ravindra Jadeja, had an impressive series and ended up as the leading wicket-taker with eight scalps to his credit. He was head and shoulders above all the bowlers from both sides.

"Axar, in particular, had an outstanding series. With Jaddu out everyone thought that it might become a bit of a weakness for India, but they've found another one again, which tends to happen," McDonald said on Sunday night. The Australian attack suffered at the hands of the Indian batters and was a concern for the team going into the World Cup.

"Across the series the run rate was high, it was entertaining cricket from the get-go. Bat dominated the ball, so there was really no place to hide for bowling units, in particular death. We worked our way through some plans.

We saw some good results with some of the plans that we implemented that might be able to transition to the World Cup," he said. He added that Australia will have reinforcements in the form of Mitchell Starc when they begin the defence of their World Cup title at home next month. "The connection between here (India) and Australia might be slightly different, a little bit more bounce, different tactics.

Mitchell Starc comes back into the picture being one of our best death bowlers. So, we feel like we'll get reinforcements there." The Australian said the bowlers are suffering because of the skills of the batters. "The conversations are always going to be, can you get better at your death bowling? The answer to that is yes.

We encourage our guys to make good decisions and execute them. Sometimes the batter out-executes you and we've seen that with Hardik (Pandya) across the series. Suryakumar Yadav was outstanding today