Team India may have won the Dhaka Test, but in this, Bangladesh not only made them sweat but also exposed many shortcomings again.
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Somehow India got Bangladesh Dhaka Test I just got defeated. Falling in front of Bangladeshi spinners, the Indian team defeated Bangladesh by 3 wickets on the fourth day on the basis of innings of Shreyas Iyer, Ravichandran Ashwin and Akshar Patel and won the series 2-0. Obviously, at the end of any match, the most important thing is its result and according to that, Team India achieved an important goal, but despite this victory, many of its shortcomings and mistakes came to the fore, be it selection or playing. of the guess.
Team India landed in this series without their regular captain Rohit Sharma, who was ruled out due to injury. In his absence, KL Rahul took command and won the series for the first time along with winning a Test match. Despite this, many shortcomings came out in his captaincy, which attracted attention.
Over-defensive batting became a disaster
The batting in India’s second innings in the Dhaka Test was astonishing. India had a target of 145 runs and had to bat at the end of the third day and the fourth day. The pitch was challenging but scoring 145 should not have been that difficult. Team India’s batsmen made the mistake of playing defensively on such a pitch.
This gave Bangladesh spinners a chance to dominate. India does not need to play very aggressively like England, but chasing the target of 145 runs, some aggression should have been shown.
top order flop show
Even though Bangladesh could not take full advantage of India’s mistakes, but the Australian team visiting India in February will not fail to take advantage of such mistakes. The biggest problem in this is the average performance of the top order batsmen. Captain Rahul himself did not look comfortable and lost wickets playing on the front foot in both the innings.
Shubman Gill and Cheteshwar Pujara dodged in an attempt to go out and play. The batsmen of the current generation are not able to play spin well and their weakness has been exposed again. Even a great batsman like Virat Kohli was dismissed for one run in 22 balls, which was not good in any way considering his level.
mistake in team selection
Not only this, if there was a lot of uproar in this test, then it was the selection of the playing eleven. India It was also a mistake to keep Kuldeep Yadav, who was man of the match for eight wickets in the first Test, out. Instead of playing three spinners on a turning pitch, the Indian team management decided to field three fast bowlers. The result definitely came in India’s favor but this match could have ended a day earlier without any headache if Kuldeep was not dropped.