India continue their miserable run
in test arena on foreign soil by suffering yet another whitewash after 4-0
defeat in England in 2011,this time against mighty Australian side.
They were completely outplayed in
every department of the game and deservingly met their 7th test series
whitewash defeat in history (3 or more test in a series) which is the highest number
of this type of humiliation by any team.
Their opener can't gave them good
starts, middle order continue to struggle on fast, bouncy and lively wickets,
their heavyweight but condition-oriented batting line-up seemed to be utterly impotent.Only Kohli could score a century otherwise batting was almost at its worst. Sachin was also seemed to be under pressure regarding 100th hundred hype as he was not able to score big.
As one can expect, Indian bowlers struggled to take wickets, Clarke and co. piled up huge scores to
eliminate any chance of Indian team even able to compete.
Michael Clarke was the highest run
getter of the series with a double and a triple century (only the 3rd batsman
in the history to do so in the same series after the great Bradman and Hammond)
Ponting also revive his diminishing reputation with couple
of big tons to make sure that over-rated visitors continues to struggle.
Occasional burst from Zaheer and Yadav couldn’t harm Aussies, which were quite
organized even in their rebuilding phase.
Just midway through the series, there was lots of talking engoing on regarding future of
the three veterans-Sachin, dravid and Laxman. It now seems to be end of a great era of Indian batting and
now for regaining the respect, many efforts will be required and it would be a long process. Furthermore
Indian tendency of losing outside subcontinent and in testing conditions is also
worth questioning about their abilities, mental toughness and handling of
quality pace bowling.
Apart from performance, their abusing acts,the frustration that they showed to crowd and living in the past that they were used to winning back in India showed their attitude and lack of professionalism.
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