IND vs AUS 2nd Test Highlights: After a tremendous win in the Perth Test, Team India has suffered a crushing defeat by 10 wickets in the Adelaide Test. With this win, Australia has made a great comeback and leveled the series 1-1. The hero of this victory from Australia was Travis Head, who played a wonderful century innings.
The players of the Indian team failed to maintain their performance of the first test. In the first innings, Team India scored 180 runs after losing all the wickets. In response, Australia scored 337 runs and took a lead of 157 runs. In the second innings, no batsman of Team India could cross the 50-run mark.
This was the reason why the Men in Blue were all out for 175 runs and Australia got a target of just 19 runs to win, which they achieved without losing any wicket. There were many reasons for Team India's defeat in this match and we are going to mention 3 of them.
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Playing with the pink ball is always considered more difficult than playing with the red ball. In such a situation, players need to play carefully. The playing 11 chosen by Rohit Sharma and the team management for the match did not prove to be effective. Players like Harshit Rana and Ravichandran Ashwin failed to perform. Ravindra Jadeja and Akashdeep or Prasidh Krishna could have been given a chance in place of these two, who could have perhaps performed usefully.
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In both the innings, the Indian batsmen looked completely helpless in front of the Australian bowlers. The Indian players had no answer to the deadly bowling of Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins. The bats of experienced batsmen like Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma also remained silent, due to which the team was not able to score big. It is not possible to win by scoring 170-180 runs in the first innings every time.
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When Mohammed Shami is in the field, he along with Jasprit Bumrah never fails to take wickets. This happens because both bowlers bowl according to a plan. But in the Adelaide Test, it seemed that the bowlers did not have any plan and the Australian batsmen took full advantage of this. The bowlers were not able to use the help they got from the pitch in the right manner.
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