Adam Zampa’s form is crucial for Australia in this World Cup, in which teams are going to encounter pitches where spinners will have a big role to play. Like the other day, Afghanistan’s spin trio of Rashid Khan, Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Mohammad Nabi rolled England over at the Kotla. The spinners usually bowl in tandem, but here, Zampa is the lone frontline spinner in the Australian line-up with Glenn Maxwell, providing support as a part-time off-spinner.

Hammered in first two games 

Zampa was hammered in the first two World Cup matches—against India he had unflattering figures of 8-0-53-0 and against South Africa 10-0-70-1—which Australia went on to lose rather tamely. Then came the game against Sri Lanka at the Ekana Stadium here on Monday.