NEW DELHI: Australia head coach Andrew McDonald believes India’s robust lower-order batting, comprising Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel amongst others, would be the “differentiator” within the three remaining Tests of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Jadeja and Patel performed a pivotal function with the bat within the first innings, slamming 70 and 84 respectively, as India amassed 400 runs in response to the visiting crew’s whole of 177.
That, together with Rohit Sharma’s century and sterling bowling performances from Jadeja and Ashwin, helped the hosts thrash Australia by an innings and 132 runs inside three days at Nagpur to take a 1-0 lead within the four-match sequence.
The two groups will play the second Test in New Delhi from February 17, and McDonald mentioned India’s lower-order batters will problem his aspect.
“Their (India’s) lower-order batting is also going to be a differentiator in this series in (Ravindra) Jadeja, (Axar) Patel and (Ravichandran) Ashwin… they’ve got a really strong lower-order and we’re going to be challenged by that,” McDonald informed SEN Radio on Monday.
“They’re no doubt going to have more runs available to their lower-order than ours, so we’ve got to try to work out how to break even in that sense.”
The coach, who took over following the departure of Justin Langer final 12 months, mentioned the loss within the opening Test is not going to pressure the crew to revisit its technique for the following three matches, expressing hope that the pre-series planning can nonetheless work.
“I think if you start to shift and change dramatically and too quickly you start to get lost. Clearly we’re disappointed with our first-up performance, we are realistic though, it’s a four-Test series so there’s a long way to go,” McDonald mentioned.
“The planning and preparation that went into it, we still feel that can work and we’ve got some quality players in the change room that can get us back on the right side.”
McDonald conceded a poor exhibiting within the first-innings in Nagpur drastically pegged Australia again, after which they could not recuperate.
“India put us under extreme pressure, we didn’t maximise our first innings and when you get behind in the subcontinent it’s a long way back and things can happen fast and that’s what we saw play out.
“(The third day’s) play might be a mirrored image of not maximising that first innings after successful the toss,” he added.
Jadeja and Patel performed a pivotal function with the bat within the first innings, slamming 70 and 84 respectively, as India amassed 400 runs in response to the visiting crew’s whole of 177.
That, together with Rohit Sharma’s century and sterling bowling performances from Jadeja and Ashwin, helped the hosts thrash Australia by an innings and 132 runs inside three days at Nagpur to take a 1-0 lead within the four-match sequence.
The two groups will play the second Test in New Delhi from February 17, and McDonald mentioned India’s lower-order batters will problem his aspect.
“Their (India’s) lower-order batting is also going to be a differentiator in this series in (Ravindra) Jadeja, (Axar) Patel and (Ravichandran) Ashwin… they’ve got a really strong lower-order and we’re going to be challenged by that,” McDonald informed SEN Radio on Monday.
“They’re no doubt going to have more runs available to their lower-order than ours, so we’ve got to try to work out how to break even in that sense.”
The coach, who took over following the departure of Justin Langer final 12 months, mentioned the loss within the opening Test is not going to pressure the crew to revisit its technique for the following three matches, expressing hope that the pre-series planning can nonetheless work.
“I think if you start to shift and change dramatically and too quickly you start to get lost. Clearly we’re disappointed with our first-up performance, we are realistic though, it’s a four-Test series so there’s a long way to go,” McDonald mentioned.
“The planning and preparation that went into it, we still feel that can work and we’ve got some quality players in the change room that can get us back on the right side.”
McDonald conceded a poor exhibiting within the first-innings in Nagpur drastically pegged Australia again, after which they could not recuperate.
“India put us under extreme pressure, we didn’t maximise our first innings and when you get behind in the subcontinent it’s a long way back and things can happen fast and that’s what we saw play out.
“(The third day’s) play might be a mirrored image of not maximising that first innings after successful the toss,” he added.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com