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Kevin Hand

Australia could be India’s ‘banana skin’ in Cricket World Cup final

Australia will look to Mitchell Starc against India captain and opener Rohit Sharma [File: Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo]

Australia legend Jason Gillespie has backed his fellow countrymen to pull off one of the great Cricket World Cup final performances against an India side that are “ripe for the picking” on Sunday in Ahmedabad.

Gillespie, 48, himself was part of the Australian side that dominated world cricket either side of the turn of the century but injury cruelly denied him a place in the triumphant team that beat India in the 2003 final.

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