Team India’s Spin Struggle: Strength Turns into Weakness as Spin Costs India Heavy Losses
Team India’s Spin Struggle: Strength Turns into Weakness as Spin Costs India Heavy Losses
Team India’s Spin Struggle: Discover how India’s spin strength turned into its biggest weakness at Pune’s MCA Stadium, leading to a heavy defeat. Analyze past matches where foreign spinners like Mitchell Santner, Monty Panesar, and Nathan Lyon exploited India’s struggle against spin on home pitches.
Team India’s strength became its biggest weakness, spin caused heavy loss to India. India’s defeat at Pune’s MCA Stadium is a classic example of India getting trapped in its web on spin tracks. Surprisingly, if we look at India’s performance on rank turner pitches in the last few years, the Indian team has always been seen struggling on such pitches. In this match, Mitchell Santner took a total of 13 wickets, but the truth is that his ball was not spinning that much.
In the first innings, he got most of his wickets due to the wrong shot selection of Indian batsmen, while in the second innings, the ball landed and stayed straight. However, it cannot be denied that the story of the Indian team’s struggle against spin is an old one.
Team India’s Spin Struggle: Let’s take a look at some such matches when foreign spinners have made Indian batsmen their prey
India vs England, 2012 (Mumbai) The pair of Monty Panesar and Graeme Swann took a total of 19 wickets in both innings of India’s star batting lineup, which included legends like Gambhir, Sachin, Sehwag, Dhoni, Yuvraj. India lost this match by 10 wickets. This was India’s final home series defeat. In this series, Swann took the highest 20 wickets in seven innings, while Panesar took 17 wickets in five innings.
India vs Australia, 2017 (Pune) Steve O’Keefe opened his claws in both innings of this match and took 12 wickets. Australia scored 260 runs in the first innings and 285 runs in the second innings. On the other hand, the Indian team scored 107 and 105 runs and the team lost the match by 333 runs.
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India vs Australia, 2023 (Indore)
Australia fielded three spinners in this match on the turning pitch of Holkar Stadium, out of which two were off-spinners. In the first innings, the Indian team scored 109, while Australia scored 197 runs. The Indian team also collapsed in the second innings and could score only 163 runs. Australia won this match by nine wickets. Nathan Lyon took a total of 11 wickets in the match, including eight in the second innings. At the same time, the three Australian spinners took a total of 18 wickets in this match.
The whole cricket world knows that Indian batsmen are considered masters of playing spin, but in the last few years, this strength of Team India seems to be becoming its biggest weakness. Looking at the Indian batsmen, it seems that they do not know how to play spin.
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