'Disappointed and shell-shocked': Border, Hayden slam Australia's disastrous batting display

Allan Border and Matthew Hayden have lambasted Pat Cummins and Co. for their second innings collapse in the Delhi Test against India, where pre-determined sweep shots led to their downfall.Leading by 62 runs, Australia started the morning session of day three with a slight advantage.However, the visitors were blown away by spin bowling in the first session. They lost six batters, including Steve Smith, Matthew Renshaw, Alex Carey, Pat Cummins and Matthew Kuhnemann, to sweep and reverse-sweep shots.In 90 minutes, Australia went from 65/1 to 113 all out.

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Australia came to the second Test in Delhi with a pre-determined ploy to tackle spin with sweep shots and it backfired for the visitors as they suffered a collapse on the third day. Hosts India defeated the visitors by six wickets inside three days to retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, taking an

Former captain Border felt Australia panicked and none of the batters tried to defend."I'm disappointed, I'm shell-shocked, I'm angry about the way we went about our work today," Border said on Fox Cricket."It was panicky, frenetic batting. No one tried to get in there and stem the flow with some good defensive cricket. They were just getting out playing sweep shots, reverse sweeps to just about every ball."You just can't get away with that on this sort of track. You've got to have a method where you play within your limitations. You're not playing on a flat belter where you can expand your game."When playing on a difficult surface, you've got to work out where your scoring options are and bat some time at the crease."

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