Former Australia captain Greg Chappell minced no phrases when describing the efficiency of the visiting Australian cricket crew within the first 2 Tests of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023 towards India. In a column for The Sydney Morning Herald, Chappell slammed the techniques utilized by the Aussies within the matches to date. The 74-year-old stated that Aussies punched themselves on their mouth even earlier than a ball was bowled as they primarily based their plans on a flawed premise. Chappell stated that Australians didn’t play to their strengths within the Tests and that was the massive cause behing two embarrassing losses.
“Australia needed to play to their strengths to have a chance of winning the series. Spin bowling is not our strength. Picking spinners for the sake of it is not the way to success in India. We had to pick out best bowlers and trust them to do the job and back that with the sensible batting, bases on sound principles,” wrote Chappell. He additional stated that Australia’s second mistake was that the battersonly caught to 1 shot, which was sweep.Â
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“The Australian think-tank has made two majour blunders: they didn’t pick their best team and they based their batting attack on one shot,” stated Chappell.Â
He additionally had an advise for Steve Smith and the coach Andrew McDonald. Chappell stated that as a way to play the spinners, they have to look to step out even when doing that is taking part in with fireplace.
“Because the modern Indian spinner does not try to beat the opponents in the air as much as in days of yore, there are not as many opportunities to get down the wicket as there once were, but the Australian batters must still seek those opportunities to get off the strike and force the bowlers away from the danger zone,” wrote Chappell.
Chappell additionally stated that fit-again Cameron Green should play together with Mitchell Starc and Scott Boland.Â
Greg Chappell’s Australia Playing 11 for third Test vs India in Indore:Â Usman Khawaja, Travis Head, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Peter Handscomb, Cameron Green, Alex Carey, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Todd Murphy and Scott Boland.Â