WTC Points Table: Team India had to face a crushing defeat against Australia during the day-night test match being played in Adelaide. Australia has leveled the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series 1-1 by defeating India by 10 wickets. On the third day of this test match being played with Pink Ball Test, India had given a target of only 17 runs to Australia, which Australia achieved without losing any wicket.
The Indian team, which won the first Test match by 295 runs in Perth, proved to be a complete failure in Adelaide. This crushing defeat in Adelaide has had a big impact on the points table of the World Test Championship (WTC) and Team India has been given the number one crown. Now the Australian team has reached the top in the points table. With this defeat, Team India led by Rohit Sharma has now reached the third position while the South African team has reached the second position.
Indian team reached third place
With 10-wicket win in Adelaide Test, Kangaroo has snatched the number one crown from India. With this victory, Australia’s team has reached number one position with 60.71 percent marks. With the defeat of the Adelaide Test match, the Indian team has suffered a big loss. Now Team India, along with losing the number one crown, is also out of the top two teams. India’s team has reached third position with 57.29 percent marks. South African team has reached second position.
The crushing defeat in the second test match has now put the Indian team in trouble. The Indian team will have to win all three remaining Test matches against Australia. It will not prove to be easy for India to achieve this victory against the strong team of Australia.
Travis Head shines in Australia’s win
During the Adelaide Test match, the Indian team’s batting proved to be a complete flop. Team India has batsmen like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Shubman Gill, KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal, but the Indian team could not compete with the Australian bowlers. Due to the poor performance of the Indian batsmen, the team scored 180 runs in the first innings and only 175 runs in the second innings.
Australia had scored 337 runs in its first innings. For Australia, Travis Head batted brilliantly and scored an inning of 140 runs. During this period he hit 17 fours and four sixes. In the second innings, the Indian team had given a target of only 19 runs to Australia, which the Australian team achieved without losing any wicket. With this, the Australian team achieved a spectacular victory against India by 10 wickets.
All batsmen except Nitish flopped
Nitish Kumar Reddy proved to be the most successful batsman for the Indian team during the Pink Ball Test match in Adelaide. Apart from Nitish, no Indian batsman could compete with the Australian bowlers. Nitish contributed 42-42 runs in both the innings. Except Nitish, all the other Indian batsmen proved to be lazy and due to this the Indian team could not even score 200 in both the innings.
Pai Cummins took the maximum of 5 wickets from Australia in India’s second innings. Scott Boland took three wickets and Mitchell Starc took two wickets. Starc had taken 6 wickets in India’s first innings. In this way he took 8 wickets in both the innings combined.