Australian squad feels great, says Pat Cummins

Even after Australia lost against India in the opening two ODIs fast bowler Pat Cummins believes his team has great morale and can win from any situation The feeling in the group is great I feel like every time we walk on the field we have a real shot of winning a game no matter what the circumstances cricketcomau quoted Pat Cummins as sayingAustralia went down to India by eight runs in the final over in Nagpur after Marcus Stoinis Peter Handscomb and Alex Carey rallied late to leave the visitors just two lusty blows on Tuesday night away from an upset victoryWe are taking every single game deep it comes down to a couple of overs a couple of key moments which are the difference between winning and losing Cummins said That is all you can do is try to put yourself in those positionsThe more you are in that the more you get used to it and kind of work out how you can do some things better he said It was the third time in the past five ODIs between these two nations that the match went down to the last six ballsAnd to make matters worse for Australia they lost all those close encounters Australia would look to rectify these errors to get more confidence ahead of the World Cup We have still got quite a lot of cricket before the World Cup but I honestly think it is in a really good place at the moment Cummins told cricketcomauMarcus Stoinis was keeping the hopes alive for the Aussies as they needed 11 runs off the final over but it just was not to be as Vijay Shankar dismissed him off the very first ball of the final over resulting in Australias defeat by eight runsSo with Stoinis out there I thought we were a massive chance He played it beautifully the way he just counted down the balls chose his bowlers Cummins told cricketcomauTo have 11 off the last over against probably their fifth bowler is a pretty good position from where we were He set it up beautifully just was not his day that last overAustralia would hope to bounce back in the third ODI to deny India the chance of taking an unassailable lead in the fivematch series Australia takes on India in the third ODI on Friday March 8 at RanchiCatch up on all the latest T20 news and updates here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updatesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever