India's poor run with the Australian tour has raised a lot of questions. One was on Dhoni's captaincy and the next, would be the famed batting line up. Not to forget, Sachin has played reasonably well in this series. People around the world wanted him to score his 100th ton and the media was the main culprit that makes the master batsmen feel the pressure. Coming to Lax and Dravid. Dravid has been bowled the most number of times in this series. Laxman, looks like missing the genius touch this time.
Dhoni himself said, that he was running out of ideas. When ever aussies started scoring runs quickly, he was not able to stop the run flow nor he placed the fielders in the right position to pick wickets, and one more thing to be noted India hardly made aussies to bat in their second innings. In the recent test match, Aussies played with 4 pacers and Indians too followed the same strategy,dropping Ashwin, not to forget Ashwin was a consistent run getter in this series for India and he has scored a ton against West Indies recently. Dropping someone like him was not good and bringing in Vinay was not the right decision. Vinay is still young,he has been giving a lot of runs and not so consistent too.
So now, with three tests over, MSD has been banned from playing 4th test for slow over rate and report says Gautam Gambhir and Ishant Sharma were the main culprits for the slow over rate. Now Sehwag to lead, Indians will certainly look to play for the pride.
Not to forget England is also struggling in Dubai against Pakistan. This proves a lot. Even a NO.1 team will struggle in away matches.
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