The third Test between India and Australia will be played in Indore from March 1 and for this, fast bowlers Mitchell Starc and Cameron Green may get a chance in Australia’s team.
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Australia head coach Andrew McDonald India I am disappointed with the performance of my team. Hurt as a coach. And, perhaps this is the reason why he has accepted defeat even before the end of the Test series. On his team’s poor batting in the second innings of the Delhi Test, he said that they failed India’s test.
At the end of the second day’s play of the second Test, Australia’s team was in a better position in the second innings by scoring 61 runs for one wicket, but after that the team was reduced to just 113 runs. He lost his 9 wickets for just 52 runs on the third day. India achieved the target of 115 runs from Australia by losing 4 wickets and with this took a 2-0 lead in the Test series.
We failed India’s test – Australian coach
The Australian Associated Press quoted Macdonald as saying on Monday, there will be criticism of our methods and so there should be. He said, at the end of the second day’s play in the Delhi Test, if you had said that our preparation was good, then probably your point of view would have been different. But on the third day, people started criticizing what happened within an hour. And we failed India’s test on the third day,” said Macdonald, who replaced Justin Langer as coach after Australia’s 4-0 win in the Ashes.
Players failed to implement their preparations
The Australian coach said that as far as he understood, the preparatory camp on spin-friendly pitches in Bengaluru provided a lot of preparation against spin. McDonald said, I think the team prepared very well in Bangalore, so there is no excuse for this. The coach said that some players did not follow their tried and tested strategy, which cost them the second consecutive humiliating defeat.
Let us tell you that now the third Test between India and Australia will be played in Indore from March 1 and for this Australia’s team can get a chance for fast bowlers Mitchell Starc and Cameron Green who are recovering from injuries.