India Don’t Need to Make Changes For Next Aus Test: Nishant Arora

After such a humiliating defeat, the Indian cricket team were brought back down to earth after their 19 match unbeaten streak.

O’Keefe’s heroics enabled Australia to register their first Test win on Indian soil since 2004 as they took a 1-0 lead in the four-match series.

India skipper Virat Kohli conceded that his team were thoroughly outplayed by Australia while laying the lion’s share of the blame at the feet of the batsmen. These are conditions which are supposed to be alien to the Aussies.

Hailing the visitors, the 67-year old added, “The way the Australians fought on a pitch they were not familiar with, it was unbelievable to watch”. They had lost their last nine matches in Asia. This was also Kohli’s first defeat as captain in Test cricket at home. “May be, it is a mental thing”, said Waugh.

Kohli has been in outstanding form. Compare that with Smith (109), who scored two more runs than the entire Indian batting unit in the second innings. Steve was the reason that had led to the crumbling of the Indian batting order.

Left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja posted a picture on Instagram with a caption: “On the mountain”. The 34-year-old, who bagged figures of 8 for 215 in his debut Test against India in Nagpur during the 2008 series, doesn’t see India preparing wickets that will turn from the word go. Trust the tried and tested, but stay flexible at the same time. But times have changed since the retirement of Ricky Ponting, Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Adam Gilchrist. He has done something Steven Smith will count as one of his proudest achievements: score a second-innings hundred in India against R Ashwin, when playing for Assam against his former team Tamil Nadu at his former home ground in Chennai.

“To be honest, that wasn’t a pitch”, Singh, a veteran of 103 tests, said of the surface used for the series opener.”Test cricket should last five days”. “It’s going be a test of patience for the spinners when conditions won’t necessarily suit them”. Australia have a clear edge with 40 wins. No player from either country has ever achieved such a high number, with Ravi Shastri (77.75) and David Boon (70.82) next in line. One match was tied. And, yes, on what looked from the outside like a mental capitulation from India’s batsmen in both innings. India were bowled out for 105 and 107, lasting a total of 74 overs.

For Australia, all sorts of records were shattered. Out of 42 reviews, only on 10 occasions have India had a successful referral. If I feel there is something they should do, I go up to them and suggest and it is up to them if they implement it or not, some say no, some say yes. Track with too much spin evens the advantage. While he ended his first-class career with an average of 53, his life has been one long gap year. “It was well supported by Nathan Lyon and the two fast bowlers as well”.