In the fallout of two straight Test defeats towards India, Australian head coach Andrew McDonald made no excuses, minced no phrases and stated that they had been merely not adequate regardless of passable preparations.
“Our methods are going to be critiqued, and rightfully so,” McDonald was quoted as saying by Australian Associated Press on Monday. Australia had been 61/1 after the ultimate session of Day 2 and it seemed like, after the Nagpur Test, they had been lastly up to the Indian problem. But got here Day 3, all of it went out of the park, and so they misplaced all of the 9 wickets for simply 48 runs.
“At the end of day two, if you said our preparation was good (with Australia on 61/1), you’d probably have a different slant on it, but within an hour (on day 3) then people start to critique what happened in the past. And day three, as well as we could have been and we failed under the examination of India,” added McDonald.
The coach additional added that regardless of the outcomes, they would not have modified the best way they practiced. “I still wouldn’t have changed what we did leading in, there’s no doubt about that,” McDonald added.
He additionally stated that some gamers diverted from their time-tested recreation plan, which resulted within the second humiliating defeat. “There were some people who went clearly away from the game plan that made them successful over a period of time and that’s for us to own as a collective. We’ve got to be better than that, that’s the bottom line, we’ve got to own it and we are not here to shy away from the fact that wasn’t good enough.”
The caravan now strikes to Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore the place the 2 groups are scheduled to play the third Test, beginning March 1.
