IND vs AUS |’I don’t think it will play any role’: Ravi Shastri on if 2020 Adelaide debacle will haunt India | Cricket News
IND vs AUS: Former India coach Ravi Shastri who was at the helm when India last played a pink ball Test in Australia at the Adelaide Oval, said that the side which will take the field once again in the same venue on Friday, won’t be haunted the 36-all out debacle which happened in the 2020/21 series.
In that fateful match, India had suffered the ignominy of posting their lowest ever total of 36 in Test cricket in the second innings leading to the Aussies winning the match 8 wickets.
“I don’t think it (Adelaide drubbing) will play any role but it should be at the back of their mind because you know things happen very quickly with a pink ball. You realise that in a session of play if things don’t go your way and the bowling is good, things can happen rapidly What we did after that 36 was — like I said at that time — that I’d never seen, and I said it in the dressing room, I’d never seen so much of playing and nicking as opposed to playing and missing,” Shastri said in the ICC Review.
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“And I’d watched cricket for about 40 years. And to be honest, that was a session where hardly any player played and missed. If he did anything, he got a nick. So it was not beating the bat. You know, the bowlers (being) unlucky… it was just the batsmen being unlucky on that day,” he added.
India under Ajinkya Rahane would ultimately make a remarkable turnaround in the series with a victory in Melbourne and then a draw at Sydney before winning the whole thing 2-1 with their horic coup at Brisbane.
