Key Points
To be bowled out in less than 30 overs for 121 with two and a half days left is a low Rohit Sharma and Gautam Gambhir will find impossible to live down..
When a team bats like India have done for five innings this series, in their own conditions, with utter lack of faith in their own techniques, where does one even begin?.
As if defeats in the first two Tests werent bad enough, the abject capitulation in the third game, chasing a modest 147 for victory, plunged the team to the humiliating depths Indian cricket hasnt experienced in the last 90 years..
There has been a huge premium on intent and taking the game forward and on avoiding boring draws, but what wouldnt the Indian fan, faithful and uncomplaining in a welcome break from the past but perhaps far too compromising and undemanding of accountability, give for a dull, dreary stalemate?.
His greatest moment as Test opener came on the tour of England in 2021 when he went against his natural grain, concentrated on leaving balls outside off, batting time and forcing the bowlers to bowl against to his strengths, all in conditions he isnt too accustomed to..
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