🏏India vs Australia, 3rd Test: Venue: Holkar C Stadium, Indore 🏏 - Page 15

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Originally posted by: Savera84

Once upon a time, draw used to be the normal outcome of a test match. Now we are getting a result within 3 days. May be teams are playing the test match as an ODI or T20I. I don't know.

Anyway congratulations to Australia for winning the third test.👏

Cheers..

Players are trying hard to play the test match as test match but pitch is not allowing them to play. We don't have good test pitch curators in India.

The day started with Australia needing 76 runs and India 10 wickets. Ashwin gave some hope when he removed the in-form Khawaja off the second ball of the day, but that was the only joy for India. Head and Labuschagne buckled down and were ready to take their time. There was not a single aggressive shot played for the first 10 overs and then a couple of things happened, the ball was changed and at the same time there was a message from the Australian dressing room, that got the pair going especially Head and there were a flurry of boundaries which broke India's fight. This Test started with India needing a win to qualify for the WTC final but it is Australia who seal their spot in the WTC final.

Shortest home Tests that ended in a defeat for India

1135 balls Aus vs Ind Indore 2022/23 *

1459 balls Eng vs Ind Kanpur 1951/52

1474 balls WI vs Ind Kolkata 1983/84

1476 balls Aus vs Ind Mumbai WS 2000/01

This is the first defeat for India in a home Test where they have batted first since losing to England in Kolkata in 2012/13.

India losing a home Test inside three days

vs Aus Indore 2022/23

vs Aus Pune 2016/17

vs SA Ahmedabad 2007/08

vs Aus Mumbai WS 2000/01

vs SA Mumbai WS 1999/00

vs Eng Kanpur 1951/52

Where did it go wrong for India? Losing 7 wickets in the 1st session of the game after opting to bat never helps. India looked comfortable against pace and raced off to 26/0 in 5 overs, but the introduction of spin had them wobbling as Kuhnemann picked up his maiden fifer while restricting the hosts to a meagre 109. With the batting scars still playing on their minds, the Indian spinners struggled to hit consistent lengths in the second half of the opening day. Having an open field didn't help either as Uzzie and Marnus rotated strike comfortably. They did find their mojo back on the second day by picking the last six Australian wickets for 11 runs, but the damage was already done by then. Usman Khawaja, with his low hands approach and intermittent sweeps, set the template for the rest of the batters and played a pivotal role in Australia securing a significant 88-run lead. India tried to get their act together in their second essay, but Australia trusted their discipline and kept posing question marks with their impeccable lines and length. Pujara stood out in an otherwise sorry-looking scorecard and it needed a miracle to stop Australia from chasing the scanty 76. Not to be.

Rohit Sharma: When you lose a Test match, there are a lot of things which didn't go our way, to start with we didn't bat well in the 1st innings, we understand how important it is to put runs on the board in the 1st innings and when they got 80-90 runs lead, we had to produce another innings with the bat but we were not able to do that again. We got just 75 on the board, if we batted well in the 1st innings, things would have been slightly different. We haven't thought about it yet (WCT final), we have sometime to think about what we need to do there (Ahmedabad Test). We need to regroup and try and understand what we did right in the first 2 games. We need to understand, no matter what the pitches are, you gotta come out and do the job. We need to keep it simple and follow the plan. When you are playing on challenging pitches, we need to be brave. We allowed their bowlers to bowl on one particular spot. Not taking any credit away from their bowlers. especially Nathan Lyon, he kept challenging us hitting the right lengths. When the bowler is trying to do that, gotta be a little brave which I thought we were not. Things happen like that, but we can take a lot of credit about how we batted in the first 2 games. Its all about everyone coming together and chipping in. We want few guys stand up and put their hand up to take the team through. You will falter in your plans and that's what happened in this game, we didn't adapt as well as we would have liked to.

Originally posted by: dusk2dawn

Hai koi maai ka laal who can pull off a kumble kinda magic here?? N takes 9 wickets for 60 runs.

So we can shout

Sadly no miracle happened😒 we lose badly

Originally posted by: Viswasruti

It is a tricky situation for both the teams.

That way, this match is very interesting.

IND 109 & 163

AUS 197 & 1/1 (1.1)

CRR: 0.86

Day 3: 1st Session - Australia need 75 runs

So 3rd test given to them . I think ind won test series .

Thanks for d tag .

Originally posted by: la_Reine

Match khatam?

Haanji on Day 3....India lost very badly for a home test match!