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Former captain Michael Clarke thinks that Australia’s terrible performance thus far on their tour of India has been caused by “huge, major blunders.” According to Clarke, Australia’s worst mistake was skipping a tour game before the four-test series that began on February 9. Pat Cummins decided to train at home instead, followed by a quick camp close to Bangalore, before the series’ opening game in Nagpur. Two weeks later, the visitors are down 0-2 in the series and have already lost their chance to reclaim the Border-Gavaskar trophy.
“Since we didn’t play a tour game, what I’m witnessing doesn’t surprise me. Mistake, error, mistake. There had to have been at least one game there to acclimatise to the surroundings “On Monday’s Big Sports Breakfast, Clarke stated.
In the first two Test matches, the Australian hitters’ incapability to play top-notch spin has been completely exposed.
In Delhi, they tried to sweep their way out of trouble, but that tactic was a total disaster. In addition, Clarke asserted that it was a grave mistake to not cast Travis Head in the opening contest of the series.
The southpaw led the group in scoring in the second innings with a 43 off 46 balls, before Australia’s team crumbled to 113 all out. At that time, he also played his first Test.
Huge, major mistake in choosing you for the preliminary examination. We saw enough guys sweeping in the first Test match; not in the second. The conditions are not good for sweeping when you start your inning. The conditions won’t ever be suitable to reverse sweep against the spin at the beginning of your innings, according to Clarke.
On a track with little bounce, a sweep or reverse sweep caused the side to fall in half.
No matter how many assistants are there, you are playing for Australia. In order to compete at the greatest level, a batsman must certainly consider the advantages and disadvantages.
You could say that my “swim between the flags” strategy is to play straight and hit with spin while facing spin bowling on a pitch like that.
“Let’s confine ourselves to those two hypotheses. I’m going to play every ball with the spin, straight bat,” Clarke declared.
Australia should have taken a cue from India on how to bat in spin-friendly conditions, he continued.
It seems as though we are not watching India bat,” he said. Why wouldn’t you take a look at that instance and think, “Oh, these guys know the circumstances so well, and this is how they’re playing? When they have been so successful, why would we try something new? He made reference to Australia’s spectacular batting collapse in which they lost nine wickets for 52 runs, saying, “The game was there for us to win if we made 200… and we were 1-60.”
India had a 115-run target to chase down, which they accomplished with six wickets in hand. On Sunday, Pat Cummins’ field placements were also questioned by Clarke.
“I’m not sure why our strategies failed. Just 100 runs were recorded by us.
Four men were on the boundary at one point under Patty Cummins’ command. The Test match has 21.5 days remaining. Either you dismiss India for less than a hundred runs or you lose; the choice is yours.
It doesn’t matter whether you lose in 20 overs or two days. Fielders then stand up and bat-pad their leg and off sides, respectively. You are exiting the game if the ball spins, bounces, shoots along the ground, or if you make a mistake.
Australia was required to manage the ball in that way. While we only had a slim advantage of one run, we still had to try to win the game, and we had deep point and deep square leg. I was watching what, “.
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