Right after India’s crushing loss to Australia in the second Test of the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25, tension exploded in the tourists’ camp. It seems that the blame game has already begun within the Indian cricket team after Australia crushed them by 10 wickets in Adelaide.
India had a great start to their high-octane five-match Test series, having won the first Test by 295 runs against Australia at the Optus Stadium in Perth under the captaincy of Jasprit Bumrah. However, Rohit Sharma returned to the Test side for the second Test and took over from Bumrah.
Day-Night Test match defeat sparks rumours of discord in Indian cricket team
For the Day-Night Test at the Adelaide Oval, the Indian cricket team made three changes, slotting Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, and Ravichandran into the playing XI by dropping Devdutt Padikkal, Dhruv Jurel, and Washington Sundar, leading to a shuffle in the batting order.
The Indian skipper dropped down to the batting order to not touch the opening combo of Yashasvi Jaiswal and KL Rahul after their successful partnership in the first Perth Test, but they badly failed to live up to the expectations in the pink-ball Test against Australia.
Well, not just the openers; India’s entire batting line-up, excluding Nitish Kumar Reddy, who scored 84 runs across the two innings, failed to deliver, and then the bowlers could not put pressure on the Australian batters, but poor fielding also didn’t help them either.
The tourists were just off-color in all three departments and paid the price as Australia took the perfect revenge of crushing the Perth Test defeat by winning the Adelaide Test by 10 wickets to level the ongoing five-match Test series 1-1 on Sunday.
India’s coaching staff’s animated chat raises eyebrows after Adelaide Test loss
Now, the stains of his humiliating defeat started looking within the Indian cricket team, hinting at the possible rift among the coaching staff, possibly over the decisions made for the Pink-Ball Test against Australia. Actually, a picture of India’s coaching staff is going viral on social media that stunned the fans.
A Revsportz journalist shared a picture on his social media handle X from Adelaide, where India’s bowler Morne Morkel, assistant coaches Abhishek Nayar and Ryan ten Doeschate, and fielding coach T. Dilip can be seen having some intense chat right after the conclusion of the Day-Night Test match.
In the viral picture, India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir was missing, but Abhishek Nayar’s gesture towards Morne Morkel hinted at something spicy cooking up among them. And even the Revsportz journalist claimed that India had a net session followed by an animated chat between the coaches in Adelaide.
Here’s the viral photo:
India had a net session followed by an animated chat among the support staff. pic.twitter.com/AZQCWlGSjW
— Subhayan Chakraborty (@CricSubhayan) December 8, 2024
Notably, the Adelaide Test match was the fourth shortest Test match played on Australian soil in terms of balls. A total of 1031 balls were bowled across the four innings during the Day-Night Test match at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide.