Warne optimistic about Hogg8217;s performance

8220;India plays the spinners extremely well, but Australian pitches are different. There is a lot of extra bounce and he Hogg can still have an impact. It8217;s not low, slow, big-turning wickets. It8217;s fast, bounce and not much turn,8221; Warne was quoted as saying by the Herald Sun.

Harbhajan Singh has already dared Australia to field Hogg, warning the spinner might cop quite a battering against his batting colleagues.

Rival captain Ricky Ponting picked up the gauntlet and invited India to have a go at the spinner.

Warne, meanwhile, conceded that against India, he did not do as well as he has done against other countries but insisted it was not too bad either.

8220;I think Hoggy will do well. They played me pretty well on the whole but I still had success against them.8221;

Warne8217;s optimism stems from the fact that Hogg did reasonably well in the ODI series against India and his advice was to stick to the same gameplan.

8220;You know they are going to play spin well and you are going to be under the pump a little bit. But the way he Hogg has played in one-day cricket is how he should bowl in Test cricket.8221;