Allan Border, a legendary Australian captain, criticised Australia’s “panicky and frantic” batting in the second Border Gavaskar Trophy Test and expressed his shock on the end result. India overcame Australia by six wickets in the second Test inside three days to seize a 2-0 sequence lead on Sunday due to Ravindra Jadeja’s biggest bowling numbers in an inning in Test cricket (7-42) and Ravichandran Ashwin’s spin masterpiece.
“I’m disappointed, I’m shell-shocked, I’m angry about the way we went about our work today,” Border instructed Fox Cricket.
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Australia had been a lot better in the second Test, scoring a aggressive rating in the primary innings earlier than having India 139/7 on day two. But Axar Patel’s 74 modified the face of the match, leaving the guests with only a one-run lead in a match. On day three, Australia went from 1/65 to all out for 113, makes an attempt to comb Indian spinners backfired as Steve Smith, Matthew Renshaw and captain Pat Cummins all acquired dismissed whereas attempting to play the identical shot.
“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,” Border mentioned.
Australia’s hopes of securing the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in India for the primary time in 19 years have been thwarted after collapsing to a second straight Test defeat. India retained the Border-Gavaskar Trophy for the fourth straight time with a six-wicket win on the Arun Jaitley stadium by taking an unassailable 2-0 lead in the 4-match sequence. The third Test of the sequence will happen from March 1 to five on the Holkar Stadium in Indore.