India have taken a 1-0 series lead after a thumping win in Perth that has raised major questions about Australia’s side.
Australian captain Pat Cummins insisted there was no need for wholesale changes to the Australian team that suffered one of the most humiliating results for the home side in recent memory, when India claimed a 295-run victory in Perth to kick off the Border-Gavaskar series.
Skipper Pat Cummins said there was no need for panic after Australia’s top order crumbled in record fashion. He indicated there would not be mass changes to the team for the second Test. Australia are preparing to fly to Adelaide a day earlier than planned to fine-tune preparations for a match that could define the series.
“We thought our prep leading in was good,” Cummins said. “Everyone was firing, but it was one of those games where not much went right, so there’s a fair bit to look at ahead of next week. An impressive innings of 89 from Travis Head and 47 from Mitch Marsh were the only real highlights of the first two sessions of day four as Australia did their best but couldn’t get anywhere near the mammoth target. Man of the match Bumrah and fellow quick Mohammed Siraj took three wickets apiece to land an early psychological blow in the five-Test series.
The move back to No.4, after experimenting as an opener, has not started well for Smith. Like Labuschagne, Smith needs to fire in this series, having chalked up just two scores over 12 in his past ten Test innings. Never before has an Australian top four made fewer runs in a Test. The next worst was the combined 38 runs made by Australia’s No.1 to No.4 in a Test against England in Manchester in 1888. On two other occasions in 1888, at Lord’s and the SCG, Australia’s top four made just 40 runs combined.“It’s no secret how hard the batters, particularly Marnus, works in the nets,” Cummins said. “He’s always trying to find those small marginal gains.
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