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NEW DELHI : Australia's batters went away from their usual methods for scoring runs which led to their downfall in the second test against India, captain Pat Cummins said after his team suffered another heavy defeat on Sunday.
NEW DELHI :India hammered Australia inside three days for the second time in a fortnight to retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy on Sunday and are on the verge of qualifying for the World Test Championship (WTC) final in June.
pre-determined ploy to use sweep shots to counter spin backfired for them at the Kotla pitch in Delhi. An over-reliance on sweep shots hastened their collapse on the third day of the second Test as they suffered a six-wicket loss to hosts India, who now take a 2-0 unassailable lead in the four-match series.The visitors resumed on 61 for 1 but lost their remaining nine wickets in just over 90 minutes to fold for 113 in a dismal morning session on a tricky, low-bouncing Kotla pitch.
India wrapped up the second Test victory over Australia within three days, but it isn't just the team's positives that are being talked about since the match has concluded. Seeing opening batter KL Rahul being dismissed for another low score (1 run), the batsman from Karnataka has courted plenty of criticism, with some experts and former cricketers asking for him to be dropped. However, skipper Rohit Sharma has refused to give up on the batter.
Rahul Dravid on Sunday hailed Rohit Sharma's captaincy. India retained the Border-Gavaskar Trophy with a six-wicket win in Delhi.Dravid said the team was "very lucky" to have someone like Rohit taking over the captaincy from a player of the calibre of Virat Kohli.Rohit took over after Kohli quit as India's Test captain following a series defeat in South Africa in January 2021.Dravid also added that the Mumbaikar has the respect of the dressing room.
second Test against Australia in New Delhi.Rahul's prolonged lean patch has become a huge talking point and the clamours of dropping him from the team has been growing with each passing day.Former Indian pacer Venkatesh Prasad has launched a scathing attack on Rahul saying, "No top order batsman in atleast last 20 years of Indian cricket has played these many Tests with such a low average."India captain Rohit Sharma broke his silence on Sunday on Rahul and said that the batter needs to devise his own methods of scoring runs on slow turners.
Ravindra Jadeja turned the game on its head on Sunday morning as his precise bowling led to a complete collapse of the Australian innings on Day 3 morning. But head coach Rahul Dravid feels that the Axar Patel and R Ashwin 114-run 8th wicket partnership in the first innings was the something that changed things for India.India were tottering at 139 for 7 in reply to Australia's first innings score of 263. But Axar (74) and Ashwin (37) put on a superb fight to take India to 262, just a run short of the Aussie score.The visitors then skittled out for 113 in their second innings to set up a lowly 115-run target for India which the hosts achieved in 26.4 overs in the second session on the third day.
Virat Kohli grabbed the headlines due to his reaction to a food delivery during Day 2 of the second Test match between India and Australia. The match was played in Delhi – Kohli's hometown – and the glee on his face was visible when the food arrived while he was having an intense conversation with head coach Rahul Dravid. There were several theories floating on the internet regarding the nature of the food with many commentators even predicting that it was ‘chole bhature'. However, Dravid revealed after India's victory in the Test match that it was ‘Kulcha Chole' and even shared a hilarious story around the food.