- Tourists search for answers after defeat by India inside three days
- Former captain Allan Border ‘disappointed’ and ‘shell-shocked’
Captain Pat Cummins has admitted Australia went “too high tempo” in a stunning capitulation as they lost the second Test in Delhi inside three days. Defeat meant Australia’s hopes of winning a Test series in India for the first time in 19 years are over in less than six days of cricket, crushed twice by a ruthless Indian spin attack.
While they were never in the contest in the opening Test in Nagpur, at Arjun Jaitley Stadium the tourists began day three with the advantage, but were demoralised by tea. Australia’s collapse of 48-9 was their third-worst in the third innings of a Test, behind the infamous Cape Town debacle of 2011 (36-9) and a match against the World XI in 2005 (47-9) when the country’s golden generation were already in a winning position.
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