It was the darkest hour for Indian cricket. A group which below an Australian-like aggressive Virat Kohli had turn out to be utilized to strutting its act on the globe stage met its comeuppance at the hands of the fierce fighters that Australians are. The Indian batting crumbling for a record-shattering total of 36 at the Adelaide Oval exposed its decades-old Achilles heel, the quick quick and increasing ball.
Pacers Josh Hazlewood and Pat Cummins knocking out the complete Indian group in between them also helped shatter the miasma of more than-self-assurance that had hovered more than the Indians soon after some of their current successes in the international contests. Truth be told, Indians do not have a strong prime-order in spot as however, the way not lengthy ago Tendulkar, Ganguly, Dravid, Azharuddin, and so forth., constituted it for more than a decade.
The existing group is perennially in the creating, with selectors experimenting with Prithvi Shaw, a dud so far, Mayank Agarwal, and so forth. Aside from Virat Kohli and the pace trio of Bumrah, Shami and Sharma, just about every other slot in the 11-member side is up for an unending experimentation. Even enabling for the glorious uncertainties of the sport , the humiliating collapse for the lowest ever Indian total of 36 is a warning to the selectors as effectively. Like the players, they as well fail to justify the big charges they take dwelling for the lousy job they appear to be undertaking. Their failure to bring a sense of completeness to the Indian eleven is inexcusable.