India
skipper
Rohit
Sharma
believed
that
the
extra
time
spend
Down
Under
will
come
handy
for
the
team
in
terms
of
acclimatisation
as
a
few
players
have
not
had
the
taste
of
Australian
conditions
ahead
of
the
World
Cup.
“When
you
go
on
big
tours,
you
need
to
prepare
well,
especially
when
you
travel
outside
India.
You
need
to
have
time
in
hand
to
prepare
the
way
you
want
to
prepare,
because
it
takes
time.
“A
lot
of
the
guys
are
not
used
to
playing
in
foreign
conditions,
be
it
Australia,
South
Africa,
England,
New
Zealand,
and
all
those
countries.
“It’s
always
nice
to
have
time
in
hand,
and
this
was
a
conscious
effort
from
the
team
management,
BCCI,
that
come
the
big
tournament,
we
want
to
have
time
in
hand
to
prepare
ourselves,
and
the
talk
of
having
time
in
hand
started
right
after
the
last
World
Cup.
We
said,
we
know
where
the
World
Cup
is
happening,
and
we
made
a
very
conscious
decision
of
going
to
Australia
a
little
earlier
than
expected
because
we
were
supposed
to
play
the
series
against
South
Africa
which
unfortunately
we
all
had
to
miss
to
prepare
for
this
big
event.
That
is
something
that
was
happening
in
the
background
right
after
the
World
Cup.
We
know
how
key
the
preparation
is.
A
lot
of
the
guys
who
are
part
of
this
team
have
not
been
to
Australia,
so
that
was
also
one
of
the
reasons
we
wanted
to
come
here
early.
We
had
a
great
time
in
Perth.
We
were
there
for
nine
days,
and
then
we
came
to
Brisbane.
We
prepared,
we
played
a
couple
of
practice
games
in
Perth
just
to
get
used
to
the
conditions,
the
pitches.
Obviously
you
can’t
travel
all
around
Australia
and
play
on
all
pitches,
but
we
could
get
whatever
we
could
get.
I
thought
Perth
was
the
right
time
for
us
to
start.
Obviously,
the
time
difference
is
not
too
much,
also,
so
you
can
easily
get
acclimatized
to
the
time
zone,
and
that
was
also
one
of
the
reasons.
I
thought
the
way
we
went
about
the
entire
Perth
leg
was
good
for
us.
We
could
specifically
focus
on
certain
things
when
it
comes
to
batting,
and
the
bowlers
could
work
on
certain
things
for
all
this
unique
time,
and
we
were
lucky
enough
to
get
those
time
in
hand
to
prepare
ourselves
and
come
here
in
Melbourne,”
said
Rohit
in
the
pre-match
press
meet
on
Saturday
(October
22).
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