Australia has drowned all chances of winning the Border Gavaskar Trophy within 6 days without putting up any kind of fight whatsoever. There is so much much look within. A loss always affects what you carry with yourself in the next game.
It could become a source of learning, you get to know what are basics of do’s and don’ts. It was sweep that actually sweeped out Australian from the game. As Australian coach and a number of players said that they were playing on their strengths.
Ian Helay has explained in a video that how to sweep and in what conditions. Some strength becomes weakness if applied with defensively mindset. Australians used sweep because they knew nothing else to use, it’s not as same as playing on your strengths.
Playing the ball on its merit is surely a sign of a batter’s strength which is evidently missing from the approach Australian batters chose to go with.
Matthew Hayden was himself helplessly mocking his own team for overusing sweep shots. While making an appearance on a podcast, Hayden said, “The ball not going over the stumps means you can only sweep on line.
“You’ve got to see what the Indian batsmen do and that’s come down to the ball. Once you start moving your feet, then they might start tossing it wide, then the sweep shot might be an option.
“I’m never a big fan of saying don’t sweep. I think that’s the wrong mentality because you already saw how productive the shot was. I’m just saying don’t sweep every ball.
“You can’t have it all in the game of cricket. Leave those sweep shots to hackers like myself.
“It was disappointing wasn’t it. You only have to look at the way Cares (Alex Carey) played that innings and you get a sense of desperation and that what’s India want.”