The Australian Test team was put on fire by legendary wicketkeeper-batter Adam Gilchrist who slammed it on Sunday for employing “negative, illegal” tactics against India on the third day of the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Perth on Sunday.
The Indian team hunted down the Australians to a total of 487 scored runs in their second innings after great centuries made by Yashasvi Jaiswal and Virat Kohli, and set improbably above home for the visitors at a whopping target of 534 runs to win.
As those two joined into the fray, refused to wilt under an apparent pressure situation, Reddy blitzed his way to 38 runs off just 27 balls.
The top end of Australia seemed most ineffective, with Captain Pat Cummins’ strategy relying purely on Marnus Labuschagne to try and break the Indian batsmen’s defense under fire for its eventuality. Australia could have looked totally incapable in that last half hour’s innings.
Gilchrist and former England captain Michael Vaughan both raised concerns over Labuschagne’s negative tactic by bowling around the wicket.
“Have you ever seen such a despondent team of Australian cricketers, resorting to those tactics? What are deemed negative, illegal tactics really by the rulebook?” Gilchrist questioned.
“It’s not that I have seen from Australia before,” Vaughan said on Fox Cricket.
“I look at this Australian side, they’re a heck of a side, and for whatever reason, they bowl out India for 150, then bat well to get only 104, and then with ball in hand had some spell during which they bowled really well, but that last half an hour is something that I have not seen in Australia ,” Vaughan added.
“Every boundary rider is on the fence, Labuschagne bowling around the wicket-he’s just bowling negatively.”
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