Team India Weakness Exposed after Melbourne Test: Under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, the Indian team is currently playing a 5-match Test series against Australia in its home country. The fourth match of this series under the Border-Gavaskar Trophy ended on Monday (30 December) in Melbourne.
In this Melbourne test match, the Australian team won by 184 runs. In this way the host team has taken a 2-1 lead in the series. Let us tell you that in this test, the Indian team had got the target of 340 runs, but the entire team was limited to 155 runs only. After this defeat, many shortcomings of the Indian team have been exposed.
The last i.e. the fifth Test match of this series between India and Australia is to be held in Sydney. This match will be played at the Sydney Cricket Ground from January 3. If the Indian team has to win this test and level the series, then it will have to correct its 5 shortcomings, which have come to light in the Melbourne test. Let us know about them…
top order flop
Excluding the Perth Test, the top batting order has not given a big partnership to the Indian team in the remaining 3 matches of this Test series. In the second innings of Perth Test, KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal made an opening partnership of 201 runs.
After this, in every match, the Indian team has been seen yearning for a big partnership for the first and second wickets. In this matter, the Indian team management needs to make special preparations, because if you do not get a good start, it becomes impossible to win the Test.
Rohit-Kohli’s bat silent
The bats of Virat Kohli and captain Rohit Sharma have remained silent in this series. Yashasvi Jaiswal has scored the maximum 359 runs for India in the first 4 test matches of the current series. Kohli is at fourth place in this list, who has scored 167 runs in 7 innings. Has scored one century during this period. If we remove this century scored in Perth, then their condition also looks bad.
Whereas Captain Rohit is in very bad condition. Captain Rohit has so far scored only 31 runs in 5 innings of 3 test matches. During this period his average was also 6.20, which is very bad. Fast bowler Akash Deep has scored more runs than Rohit. Akash has scored 38 runs in 3 innings. If Sydney Test is to be won, Kohli-Rohit will have to score runs at any cost.
Poor fielding, dropped many catches
The fielding of the Indian team looked very poor in the Melbourne Test. In the second innings of this match, the Indian team dropped a total of 4 catches, which proved to be very costly. Yashasvi Jaiswal alone dropped 3 catches. Whereas one catch was dropped by Mohammad Siraj. If the Sydney Test is to be won, the players will have to do tight fielding. Also, every catch will have to be taken.
Dependence on Bumrah alone
If seen, the Indian team has been dependent on fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah in the entire series. This was seen most especially in the Melbourne Test. You can guess this from the fact that till now Bumrah is the top wicket taker in the first 4 tests. He has taken maximum 30 wickets.
Whereas at second place is Australian captain Pat Cummins, who took 20 wickets. Whereas in the Indian team, Mohammad Siraj has taken 16 wickets, Akash Deep has taken 5 wickets, Harshit Rana and Ravindra Jadeja have taken 4 wickets each. Washington Sundar and Nitish Reddy got 3 successes each.
In this way, Siraj, Akash, Harshit and Jadeja together took a total of 29 wickets. Whereas Bumrah alone has taken 30 wickets. In this way, the Indian team has looked very weak in bowling also. If the next Test is to be won, the other bowlers will have to support Bumrah.
Rohit’s captaincy also looked poor
The Indian team has won the only test of this series in Perth. There, Bumrah took command in the absence of Rohit Sharma. Rohit returned from the second test and the condition of the Indian team worsened. The team could not win even a single test and was on the verge of losing the series.
Somewhere in this, Rohit’s captaincy has shown laxity. An example of this can be understood from the Melbourne Test, where in the second innings, the Indian team had dismissed 6 batsmen of Australia for 91 runs. After this, Rohit relaxed so much that the last 4 wickets took Australia to the score of 234.
After 6 wickets, captain Rohit had to field tight, but he fielded wide. This made it easier for the lower order batsmen to take 1-1, 2-2 runs and they made big partnerships and put the team in a strong position. Pat Cummins and Marnus Labuschagne added 57 runs for the 7th wicket. Whereas Nathan Lyon and Scott Bowland made a partnership of 61 runs for the last wicket. Now Rohit will have to show strong captaincy in the last test.