5 shortcomings sank the Indian team in Melbourne

Melbourne: Under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, the Indian team is currently playing a 5 -match Test series against Australia in his house. The fourth match of this series under the Border-Gavaskar Trophy ended on Monday (December 30) in Melbourne. The Australian team won by 184 runs in this Melbourne Test match. In this way, the hosts have taken a 2–1 lead in the series.

Let me tell you that in this Test, the Indian team got a target of 340 runs, but the entire team was reduced to 155 runs. After this defeat, many shortcomings of the Indian team have been revealed. The last Test match of this series between India and Australia is to be held in Sydney. The match will be played at Sydney Cricket Ground from 3 January. If the Indian team has to win the series by winning this Test, then it will have to improve their 5 shortcomings, which have come out in the Melbourne Test.

Top order flop
Removing the Perth Test, the top batting order in the remaining 3 matches of this Test series has not given a big partnership to the Indian team. In the second innings of the Perth Test, KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal had a 201 -run opening partnership. After this, the Indian team has seen a big partnership for the first and second wickets in every match. In this case, the Indian team management needs to make special preparations, because if you do not get a good start, then it becomes impossible to win the test.

Rohit-Kohli’s bat silent
In this series, the bat of Virat Kohli and captain Rohit Sharma has been silent. In the first 4 Tests of the current series, India has scored the highest 359 runs for India. Kohli is at number four in this list, who has scored 167 runs in 7 innings. During this time a century has scored. If we remove this century in Perth, then their condition has also been seen in bad condition.

While captain Rohit is in a very bad condition. Captain Rohit has scored just 31 runs in 5 innings of 3 Test matches so far. During this time his average was also 6.20, which is very bad. Fast bowler Akash Deep has scored more runs than Rohit. Akash has hit 38 runs in 3 innings. If you want to win a Sydney Test, then Kohli-Rohit will have to score runs.

Lachcard fielding, dripping many catches
The fielding of the Indian team in the Melbourne Test has seen very bad. In the second innings of this match, the Indian team left a total of 4 catches, which were quite heavy. Yashasvi Jaiswal alone dripped 3 catches. While a catch was left by Mohammad Siraj. If you want to win a Sydney Test, then the players will have to do tight fielding. Also every catch will have to be caught.

Dependence on Bumrah alone
If seen, in the entire series, the Indian team has appeared dependent on fast bowler Jaspreet Bumrah. Especially in the Melbourne Test, it has been seen the most. You guess this from this that Bumrah is the top wicket in the first 4 Tests so far. He has the maximum 30 wickets. While the second number is Australian captain Pat Cummins, who took 20 wickets.

Whereas in the Indian team, Mohammad Siraj has taken 16, Akash Deep 5, Harshit Rana and Ravindra Jadeja have taken 4-4 wickets. Washington Sundar and Nitish Reddy got 3-3 successes. In this way Siraj, Akash, Harshit and Jadeja took a total of 29 wickets. While Bumrah alone took 30 wickets. In this way, the Indian team has also seen very weak in bowling. If the next Test is to be won, the rest of the 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. In the absence of Rohit Sharma there, Bumrah took command. Rohit returned from the second Test and the condition of the Indian team deteriorated. The team could not win a single Test and stood at the threshold of losing the reverse series. In this, somewhere there is a poorness under the captaincy of Rohit. An example of this can be understood from the Melbourne Test, where in the second innings, the Indian team dismissed 6 Australia batsmen for 91 runs. After this, Rohit relaxed that the last 4 wickets brought Australia to a score of 234.

After 6 wickets, captain Rohit was supposed to have tight fielding, but he set up fielding. This made it easier for the lower order batsmen to take 1-1, 2-2 runs and they made the team into a strong position by making big partners. Pat Cummins and Marnas Labushen added 57 runs for the 7th wicket. While Nathan Lion and Scott Baolland partnered 61 runs for the last wicket. Now Rohit will have to show a strong captaincy in the last Test.