Adelaide: Pakistan pacer Mohammad Irfan is unusually tall — at seven-feet-one-inch — and by his own admission, “I’m (much) taller when I wear shoes.” So, Team India have developed a unusual training method to prepare to counter him in Sunday’s crucial World Cup fixture at the Adelaide Oval.

DWARFING ’EM: Mohd Irfan poses for a picture with Pakistani fans during a practice session at the Adelaide Oval yesterday. Pic/Ashwin Ferro

On Thursday, India batsmen Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma were seen facing some net bowling from a rather unusual height at St Peter’s College’s Main Oval here.

A couple of the team’s support staffers climbed on stools and threw down the ball, thereby attaining the probably height Irfan would be bowling from.