Pakistan, Feb. 7 -- Captain Mitchell Marsh insists Australia can put their spin woes behind them at the T20 Cricket World Cup after a morale-sapping series defeat to Pakistan left their preparations in tatters.

The 2021 champions are title contenders at the tournament in India and Sri Lanka beginning on Saturday, but it has been a horror build-up. They capitulated to Pakistan in Lahore by 22 runs, then 90 and lastly by a crushing 111 - their heaviest-ever T20 defeat. Outplayed with bat and ball, they were strangled by Pakistan's spinners.

Marsh defended the team's record in the spin-friendly conditions they will encounter, insisting they learned some lessons from their Pakistan thrashing. "In isolation, purely in this series, we struggl...