Former India head coach Sanjay Bangar who coached the Virat Kohli-led side during their first-ever overseas Test series in Australia advised current India's top order to look at the strategy of Pat Cummins-led Australia and how they make a comeback after losing the Perth Test.
Bangar explained that after losing the first Test match Australia came with planning to see through Jasprit Bumrah. He reckoned that McSweeney and Labuschagne and playing a crucial session so that the middle order could play with a lot of freedom.
"I think at times you also have to look at what the opposition is doing better. Now after their first innings loss or poor performance against the Indian bowlers, the Australian team thought that let us see through Bumrah and that's where you could see the clear game plan working in the title test match wherein McSweeney and Labuschagne played out a crucial session so that their middle order can come in and cash in and that allowed Travis Head to play with a lot of freedom" said Bangar on Star Sports.
He advised Indian batters to wait for the right time and start scoring when the ball gets old and their fourth-over spell bowlers Pat Cummins and Josh Hazelwood come to bowl.
"That is something that the Indian top order should look, they should sort of start talking in the lines of, hey, let's try and get Cummins to bowl the fourth spell or Hazelwood get the fourth spell. Do they really have that sort of decisiveness to rattle us with the older ball? And those are the challenges that you have to give as a batting group to one another and try and get out of this rut because in four innings out of the five on this series, we've seen the same story happening again" added Bangar.
Coming back to the match, India's top order again failed to perform in the third Test match as Yashasvi Jaiswal (4), Shubman Gill(1), Virat Kohli(3), Rishabh Pant (9) got out on single-digit scores.
At Stumps on Day 3, the visitors are struggling at 51/4 with right-hand batter KL Rahul (33*) and team skipper Rohit Sharma (0*) unbeaten at the crease.
