Team India was trapped in its own trap even 5 years ago, Kangaroos won the Pune Test in three days

India vs Australia Pune Test 2017: Australia returned to the series by defeating India in the Indore Test. Kangaroos defeated Team India by 9 wickets in the match played at Holkar Stadium. After this victory, Australia confirmed its place in the final of the World Test Championship. At the same time, the wait for Team India has increased. The way Australia won the Indore Test within three days, the guests are being praised. This is not the first time that the Kangaroos have won a Test match on the Indian soil on the third day itself. 5 years ago in the year 2017 also, Australia defeated India in a Test match within three days. Even then India was caught in its own trap. See the coincidence, at that time also the captain of Australia was Steve Smith.

5 years ago when India got trapped in its own trap

Indian batsmen are always considered expert in playing on the spin track. It has been the custom of every cricket playing country in the world that during the home series, it prepares wickets according to its own mind. India is also no different from this. In the year 2017, under the captaincy of Steve Smith, the Australian team came to India to play the Test series. In February 2017, the first match of this series was played in Pune. Obviously the MCA pitch is more suited to spinners. India was confident that it would easily defeat the Kangaroos in this match. But vice versa.

In that Test match, Australia scored 260 runs in their first innings and 285 runs in their second innings. The Indian batsman, who specializes in playing spinners, could only score 107 runs in the first innings and 109 runs in the second innings. In this match, Australia defeated India by 333 runs on the third day itself. Like the Indore Test, in this match too, the Indian batsmen surrendered to Australia’s spin bowling. Then Australia’s left-arm spinner Steve O’Keefe took 12 wickets in the match.

India’s batting-bowling is failing

Indian batsmen and bowlers were seen struggling in this Test played in Pune. If we look at the statistics of the entire match, Ravichandran Ashwin took maximum 7 wickets from India. Whereas Jayant Yadav kept on struggling. Talking about batting, KL Rahul was the only batsman from India who could score a half-century. KL Rahul scored 64 runs in the first innings. In the second innings, Cheteshwar Pujara was the top scorer by scoring 31 runs. In this way, like the Indore Test, India had to face the consequences of preparing a spin track in Pune.

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