Australia has been completely humiliated within the first Test in opposition to India at Nagpur, blown away by an innings and 132 runs.
The consequence got here with a sequence of undesirable data as Australia crumbled for 91 in its second innings.
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It’s the second lowest complete Australia has had in opposition to India and the bottom complete Australia has had in opposition to India in India.
The loss was additionally Australia’s third largest loss in India in historical past, bettering solely an innings and 135 run loss in Hyderabad in 2013 and an innings and 219 run loss at Eden Gardens in 1998.
While a lot of the speak earlier than the match was how the pitch was doctored, anybody watching could be exhausting pressed to make the argument that it performed a much bigger position in Australia’s capitulation than the efficiency of its batters.
While India’s tail arrange a 244-run lead, solely Steve Smith, who completed not out for 25, and Marnus Labuschagne, who scored 17, scored greater than 11 runs. Alex Carey and David Warner every scored 10.
Former nationwide selector and Fox Cricket professional Mark Waugh stated Australia obtained its strategy to the match very unsuitable.
“I’ll start with the ones I’m reasonably happy with, and that’d be Smith, Labuschagne and Carey,” Waugh stated.
“The rest, I’m worried about.
“I think Cameron Green, if he’s fit comes back in, and I think Travis Head has to come back in,” he stated.
“So there are two changes at five and six I’d make straight away.
“I know it’s tough to only give certain players one Test and then swap it around but I think you’ve got to think on your feet here and go with your gut feeling.”
On the pitch, Waugh was much more important of the Australian strategy.
“Most of the danger has come from the main body of the pitch, the rough’s hardly been used in any dismissals.
“There’s been the odd one which has held up when it’s really full … but generally it’s the main pitch where all the damage has been done.
“I’ve got to say the pitch is not as bad as the scoreboard shows. It’s been difficult but not like the scores have been.”
Ravichandran Ashwin was the chief destroyer for India, taking 5/37 from 12 overs because the spinners took eight wickets within the second innings in addition to the primary.
The solely shiny spot for Australia was the emergence of Todd Murphy, who took 7/124 within the first innings.
Legend Allan Border stated the Australians “should be embarrassed by that performance”.
“It’s just basic batting technique, we’re just struggling in these conditions, it’s as simple as that,” Border stated.
“Sometimes I feel we just overthought this particular tour, who should be there, who shouldn’t be there. I think Travis Head (being dropped) is the perfect example that it was chaos before it ever started.”
Brad Haddin stated he felt Australia was spooked earlier than the sport even began”.
“The scary thing is how do we mentally come back from this. It’s not about technique, it’s about between the ears how they fix it.”
Broadcaster Quentin Hull tweeted: “So far, IMO Australia looks like so many touring teams that come here and fail to perform in conditions where their skill set isn’t up to the challenge. An individual talent is discovered among a collective beating featuring mistakes at selection & in execution.”
7.20pm – India win first Test by an innings and 132 runs, go 1-0 up in sequence
Australia have produced a ‘horrific’ efficiency within the second innings at Nagpur to lose the primary Test earlier than tea on day three, being bowled out for 91, their second-lowest innings complete ever in opposition to India, and their lowest rating since being demolished for 85 within the notorious 2016 Hobart Test in opposition to South Africa.
Legend Allan Border stated the Australians “should be embarrassed by that performance”.
“It’s hard to believe,” he stated.
Todd Murphy, on Test debut, took 7-124 within the Indian first innings, however there was treasured little else to look as much as for the Australians, who didn’t have any batter go 50 for the whole thing of the Test.
7.20pm – Australia fall like home of playing cards in conventional subcontinent collapse
Australia have capitulated additional, threatening to lose the Test match earlier than tea on day three.
With the lack of Carey trapped in entrance sweeping, Pat Cummins edging behind, and Todd Murphy caught edging onto his pads, Australia have stooped to 75/8, with social media aghast on the batting show placed on by the nationwide facet.
Former nationwide selector Mark Waugh was requested about his issues on commentary, and he didn’t maintain again.
“Who are the batters you worry about, going forward?”, requested Sanjay Manjrekar on commentary.
“I’ll start with the ones I’m reasonably happy with, and that’d be Smith, Labuschagne and Carey,” replied former nationwide selector and Fox Cricket professional Mark Waugh.
“The rest, I’m worried about.”
Waugh continued to say he thought there needed to be adjustments for the second Test in Delhi.
“I think Cameron Green, if he’s fit comes back in, and I think Travis Head has to come back in,” he stated.
“So there are two changes at five and six I’d make straight away.
“I know it’s tough to only give certain players one Test and then swap it around but I think you’ve got to think on your feet here and go with your gut feeling.”
On the pitch, Waugh was much more important of the Australian strategy.
“Most of the danger has come from the main body of the pitch, the rough’s hardly been used in any dismissals.
“There’s been the odd one which has held up when it’s really full … but generally it’s the main pitch where all the damage has been done.
“I’ve got to say the pitch is not as bad as the scoreboard shows. It’s been difficult but not like the scores have been.”
6.50pm – Renshaw, Handscomb go as Smith will get off the mark with a six
This is getting faintly ridiculous.
Renshaw performs again to Ashwin, and regardless of being hit above the pads, is given out, umpire’s name on evaluate.
He departs for two, with Australia in absolute shambles at 42/4, having barely batted for an hour.
Meanwhile, Steve Smith obtained off the mark with a lofted straight drive for six, and he meets the incoming Peter Handscomb, who swiftly departs, trapped in entrance by Ashwin, who takes his fourth.
6.30pm – Warner gone, Australia in tatters
Another one bites the mud.
David Warner falls for a valiant 10 off 41 deliveries, if that’s even doable.
Lasting longer than some other Australian bat to date, he falls once more to a right-armer across the wicket, this time Jadeja’s offspin somewhat than the tempo of Mohammed Shami.
Matthew Renshaw arrives on the crease, having had an unsettled return to the Test facet.
He returned within the ultimate Test of the house summer time in opposition to South Africa, solely to contract Covid-19 and barely be wanted in a humid squib of a match in Sydney.
He then obtained a duck within the first innings right here in Nagpur – Australia wants the younger Queenslander desperately proper now.
6.20pm – Labuschagne gone! Australia two down early once more
After a superb combating first-innings 49, Marnus Labuschagne has departed, trapped in entrance by a straightening Jadeja supply, holding low and hitting as plumb as plumb will get.
In typical Labuschagne trend, a dialog with David Warner on the nonstriker’s finish ensues as as to whether he ought to evaluate, however he’s despatched on his method.
Never glad to depart the crease, he takes an inordinate period of time to depart the sphere and is visibly upset with himself within the dressing rooms as Steve Smith involves the crease, as soon as once more tasked with a rescue mission for Australia.
5.45pm – India convey on spin instantly, with quick reward
As positive as loss of life and taxes, India dropped all pretences and introduced Ravichandran Ashwin on in simply the second over of the innings.
Just as shortly, he’s knocked over Usman Khawaja, enticed by a canopy drive for 4 earlier within the over and eager to go once more, edging behind off KS Bharat’s gloves to the grateful palms of Virat Kohli at first slip.
A free shot from Khawaja, with Ravi Shastri noting on Fox Sports that Khawaja’s weight was all the way in which again, as a substitute of coming on the ball and never permitting it to pitch within the harmful tough that the Australians have lamented during the last three days.
Former selector Mark Waugh was equally important, saying it “wasn’t a genuine half-volley.”
5.00pm – India dismissed for 400, lead by 223
Finally, India’s ultimate wicket falls.
Cummins will get Axar Patel with an off-cutter that hardly dislodged a sole bail, with Patel attempting to deposit the ball into Pakistan and dropping his wicket within the course of.
India are all out for 400, with Rohit Sharma (120) and Axar Patel (84) prime scoring.
Todd Murphy is the decide of the Australians, along with his 7/124 the fifth finest figures by an Australian on debut, and the perfect since Jason Krezja’s 8/215 on the 2008 tour of India.
We go to lunch, after which David Warner and Usman Khawaja will return to try to salvage probably the most unlikely of heists.
4.25pm – Murphy will get his seventh, with data in sight
Todd Murphy has taken his seventh wicket of the innings, taking him to figures of 7-113, the fifth finest figures on debut by an Australian within the historical past of Test cricket.
He has now bettered Scott Boland’s magical 6-7 on the MCG, and skipper Pat Cummins’ 6-79 in opposition to South Africa in 2011, aged 18.
The Australian file for the best figures in an innings on debut is held by Albert Trott, a Melburnian who took 8/43 in opposition to the touring English in Adelaide in 1895.
4.15pm – India in management as Australia let probabilities slip
India are firmly in management after the primary hour of play in Nagpur.
The hosts have added 43 runs to the tally for the lack of one wicket, with solely Todd Murphy breaking by means of to get Ravindra Jadeja for 70.
The session has seen a number of DRS dramas for the Australians, and concerningly additionally way more variation from the Nagpur wicket.
Nathan Lyon has bowled nicely with out reward, having had two choices go to the third umpire and a dropped catch courtesy of Scott Boland at lengthy on, however he’s seeing way more flip off the wicket in comparison with the primary two days, whereas Todd Murphy is having fun with the identical situations.
The offspinning pair have bowled all of Australia’s overs in the present day bar one, and it has seen a ninth wicket partnership between Mohammed Shami and Axar Patel attain 50.
Australia’s longest partnership within the first innings was between Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne, and it lasted 202 balls for the third wicket.
India’s eighth-wicket partnership between Axar Patel and Ravindra Jadeja was longer, at 211 balls, and this ninth-wicket partnership is greater than midway there.
The Australians want to seek out methods to make a breakthrough, however for now they’re trusting the spin that has introduced all of them bar one among their wickets up to now this Test match.
3.35pm – Another catch goes begging, Boland drops Shami
Nathan Lyon has had a nightmare of a morning on day three, now having a sitter gone begging off his bowling.
Having toiled away within the Nagpur solar for figures of 1-109, Lyon drew an enormous ugly slog from Mohammad Shami, who barely obtained a chunk of it as he top-edged in direction of Scott Boland at long-on, going a mile within the air.
Barely needing to maneuver, and choosing fingers-up above the eyeline, Boland let the ball slip by means of his fingers, and with that, provides to Australia’s catching woes this Test after Steve Smith dropped two probabilities earlier within the match.
3.25pm – Review dramas galore for Aussies
The long-running Australian relationship with the Decision Review System has continued, with Pat Cummins getting two participant opinions unsuitable inside twenty minutes of one another.
Both coming off the bowling of Nathan Lyon, who has began day three wanting way more harmful than he has all Test match, Cummins despatched a call for caught behind upstairs to 3rd umpire Michael Gough, considering Lyon had Axar Patel caught defending in entrance, solely to seek out there was no contact on ultra-edge, and slow-motion replays displaying daylight between ball and bat.
Cummins’ blushes have been saved by the umpires reviewing the ball themselves for a stumping after the very fact, which suggests Australia don’t lose a evaluate, below ICC Playing Condition 3.6.7 (Appendix D – Decision Review System).
It wouldn’t maintain, with Lyon considering he had Mohammed Shami trapped in entrance two overs later.
Turning sharply out of the footmarks and holding low, Shami was fully overwhelmed within the flight and poked on the ball meekly, overwhelmed on the within.
That was, nevertheless, sufficient to be thought of a shot performed, and with the influence outdoors off, the Australians have one evaluate remaining.
3.15pm – Murphy has six! Build the person a statue!
Todd Murphy has his sixth wicket on Test debut!
Australia’s bespectacled hero rips by means of Ravindra Jadeja, who performed for Murphy’s constant side-spin and shouldered arms, just for the ball to hit the footmarks and proceed onto his off stump.
Jadeja departs for a sublime 70, bringing Mohammed Shami to the crease.
Murphy now has 6-83 on Test debut, the Thirteenth-best figures by an Australian within the historical past of the sport.
3pm – Day three is underway
The third day of the primary check is underway, with Pat Cummins taking the ball across the wicket to Axar Patel.
Australia face an uphill battle, with Patel and Ravindra Jadeja set on the crease on 53 and 66 respectively.
India resume at 321/7, with a century to Rohit Sharma and wickets to Todd Murphy, Nathan Lyon and Pat Cummins.
1.15pm – The method again for Travis Head
With Australia heading into the third day’s play in Nagpur below vital strain and trailing massively on first innings, Australia’s batting unit wants to provide one thing particular to maintain the primary Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy alive.
Before the shock axing of Travis Head, Australia’s finest batter this previous summer time, selectors toyed with the concept of bringing again the hard-hitting South Australian as an opener.
Revisiting the plan could also be, in line with News Corp’s Ben Horne, his solely method of returning to the Test facet in Asia, such is his weak point in opposition to India’s spinners.
With Matthew Renshaw out for a golden duck earlier than struggling a knee harm, the potential for Head’s return stays murky with the sure inclusion of all-rounder Cameron Green upon his restoration from a finger harm.
National selector George Bailey stated in December that “opportunities for players in the XI to play different roles” could come up within the subcontinent, together with probably for Head.
“So whether that’s the same for Travis in subcontinent tours, we’ll wait and see,” he stated.
Fox Cricket professional Brad Haddin believes the shift would work wonders, saying that Head is a unique participant when he’s set in opposition to spin in comparison with how he begins in opposition to spin.
“The one thing they could have done is put him up the order to take the game on,” he stated.
“If he’s set and spin comes on then he’s a much different player.”
It could be unlikely, given how it could upset the stability that David Warner and Usman Khawaja have developed on the prime of the order.
Warner has been immovable opening the batting for over a decade, whereas Khawaja averages 72.48 opening the batting and 75.05 since his return to the Test facet in 2022.
12.30pm – Dad’s embarrassing Shane Warne comparability
With the deification of a brand new hero in Australian cricket come comparisons galore, and none are greater than being in comparison with the late, nice Shane Warne.
Perhaps the most important praise within the recreation for a spin bowler, it’s an enormous name to make for anybody, however particularly somebody who doesn’t really bowl Warne’s trademark leg spin.
That didn’t cease Todd Murphy’s dad Jamie on Friday although, saying he thought “there’s a lot of traits, of Warnie, I think, in Todd.
“That never-say-die attitude, that ‘we can win from anywhere’ attitude.”
Jamie Murphy performed with Warne at St Kilda Cricket Club within the late Eighties and early Nineteen Nineties, together with a premiership with the blonde-haired legend in 1991-92, shortly after Warne had made his Test debut, additionally in opposition to India.
Murphy himself was incredulous when he heard what his outdated man had stated, saying “I shook my head when I saw that.
“I’m not sure I’m anything similar to Warnie!”
It comes after a “hectic” couple of days for the Murphy household attempting to journey to Nagpur to observe his debut.
With uncle Troy, cousin Riley, brother Joel, accomplice Bec and father Jamie in tow, the Murphy clan left the NSW border city of Moama at 2am to get on a flight to Nagpur in time from Melbourne by way of Sydney and Bangalore.
“I don’t know what we packed in the suitcase,” stated a travel-weary Jamie.
“I forgot to even pack my clothes into the suitcase.”
The Australian’s Peter Lalor, on commentary, stated that the household had even left their suitcases on the airport within the mad sprint to Nagpur, and have been all sharing garments out of the one bag.
Originally revealed as Australia vs India first Test dwell: Australia crushed in ‘woeful’ capitulation
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
