Calcutta/Sydney: Australian pacer Josh Hazlewood feels that had they bowled the last four overs in the Boxing Day Test against India, at the MCG, a win for the home side would have been possible.

Home captain Steven Smith shook hands with Indian counterpart Mahendra Singh Dhoni when four overs were left in the match and Australia needed four wickets to win the game.

Hazlewood did not question Smith’s decision to agree for a draw, but felt that had they got one more wicket, it would have put India’s tail under pressure.

“It obviously got right down to the wire, but if we needed to bowl those last four overs, we would have bowled them and if we’d got that one more wicket, we know what their last three batsmen are like,” Hazlewood was quoted as saying by the an Australian daily.

“That was always in the back of our mind, just get that last wicket to really crack them open and then you don’t know what can happen.”

However, he added that the wicket was not offering too much spin or pace.

“They’d shut shop and were looking pretty solid. We gave it a good crack, but didn’t quite get there,” he said.

Meanwhile, Hazlewood thinks that stepping on the Sydney Cricket Ground will be an emotional affair for the four Test players who were on the ground when Phil Hughes was hit fatally by a bouncer during a Sheffield Shield match, at the same ground.

Brad Haddin, Shane Watson, David Warner and Nathan Lyon were fielding for New South Wales when Hughes, who was batting for South Australia, suffered the hit.

“I think it will be (challenging), probably more so for those guys who were out there playing in that game. It’s different for everyone, but for those guys it will be the toughest I think,” Hazlewood said.

“Playing in Brisbane and Melbourne, we got away from it a little bit and really got stuck into some cricket being so congested and really focused on the cricketing side of things

“It’s obviously where we gathered together and spend a lot of time… There will be a few different feelings going through your mind, but you just take your time, take it all in and hopefully we can come out the other side and play some good cricket, rolling along from the last two games.”

Hazlewood, who played junior cricket against Hughes before becoming a state colleague of the left-hander for NSW, said that the Australians knew the emotion of walking back onto the SCG would be inescapable.

“I remember playing against Phil when I was about 15 or 16 in an under-17s competition,” Hazlewood said.