Indian cricket group captain Rohit Sharma© AFP
Indian cricket group skipper Rohit Sharma joined an embarrassing listing as his facet slumped to a 10-wicket defeat in opposition to Australia within the pink-ball Check in Adelaide on Sunday. The guests had been fully outplayed because the match lasted for simply seven classes and it was Rohit’s fourth consecutive Check defeat as captain. Consequently, he equalled the undesirable feat achieved previously by MS Dhoni, Datta Gaekwad and Kapil Dev. Throughout his stint as captain, Sachin Tendulkar misplaced 5 Check matches on the trot whereas legendary cricketer MAK Pataudi is on the prime of the listing with six defeats as captain in Check cricket.
Indian cricket group skippers who’ve misplaced 4 or extra Check matches in a row
6 MAK Pataudi (1967-68)
5 Sachin Tendulkar (1999-00)
4 Datta Gaekwad (1959)
4 MS Dhoni (2011)
4 MS Dhoni (2014)
4 Virat Kohli (2020-21)
4 Rohit Sharma (2024)*
Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli’s endless technical issues in opposition to each tempo and spin has set the alarm bells ringing as Indian batters capitulated twice in simply 81 overs to lose the ‘pink ball’ Check in opposition to Australia by a complete 10-wicket margin on the third day.
Australia maintained their unblemished file in day/evening Assessments and levelled the five-match sequence 1-1, bouncing again in model after their Perth debacle.
It was shortest-ever Check between India and Australia by way of balls bowled. Solely 1031 balls had been bowled out of a doable 2700 authorized deliveries.
Beginning the day at 128 for five, Nitish Kumar Reddy’s (42) cavalier method prevented a second successive innings defeat below lights at Adelaide as India had been bowled out for 175.
Australia wanted to attain simply 19 runs and so they accomplished the formalities in simply 3.2 overs.
India’s second innings lasted solely 36.5 overs, with skipper Pat Cummins utilizing the brief ball successfully to say 5 for 57. Scott Boland (3/51) inflicted early injury, whereas Mitchell Starc (2/60) chipped in with essential wickets.
Such was the dominance of the three premier Australian quicks that Cummins did not even want Mitchell Marsh and Nathan Lyon to roll their arms within the second innings.
In truth, the specialist spinner and all-rounder bowled simply 5 overs between them in your complete sport.
After a facile 295-run win in Perth, Indian batting unit will not be too amused to be taught that they survived a complete of 81 overs throughout each innings, which is not even a complete day of Check match batting.
(With PTI inputs)
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