What Went Wrong For India In The 1st Test Of The Series?

Nov 15, 2016 at 11:29 AM

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What Went Wrong  For India In The 1st Test Of The Series?

So the first Test between India and England resulted in a draw. England always had an upper hand in the game while India in the final Innings had to battle it out to secure a draw.

After a long time, a Test match had been drawn in India. At the start of the series England were the underdog and India were coming on the back of a series win over the Kiwis and looked confident than ever before.
But the first Test didn’t turn out to be as expected for the hosts.

So what went wrong for India in the first test?

 1) Toss :
Virat Kohli lost a very important toss in the very first match of the series.
Finally, his streak of winning the toss was broken and that too in a very
important game.
The pitch was different than usual and looked good for batting, unlike in recent past.
England won the toss and with first two days good for batting, they fully exploited the conditions and scored 537 runs which gave them an
upper hand in the match.

They were hardly going to lose from there.

2) Dropped Catches Made The Matters Worse For India:
Everyone would have heard this proverb “Catches win Matches” a thousand times.

The Indian cricket team again proved why it’s right!
The Team dropped not one, not two but a total of 6 catches during the match starting right from the first over.

Umesh Yadav was the most unlucky person on the field who produced four chances but unfortunately for him, all were dropped.
Kohli,Rahane, and Murali Vijay were the culprits. Wriddhiman Saha dropped Stokes 2 times who then went on to hit a century in the match.
Surely things would have been different had all the catches been taken.


3) Leaked a lot of runs :

The pitch was good for batting on first few days and hence runs were expected to be scored by England.

But surely if the bowlers would have been a bit consistent with line and length then England wouldn’t have reached the 537-run total.

It looked like spinners were trying too hard and in the process
leaked a lot of runs. Ashwin was the most expensive who gave away 167 runs.

Amit Mishra wasn’t very consistent and hence went for a lot of boundaries.

England scored those runs with a good run rate, going at more than 4
RPO at times.

Surely a lot of runs were leaked.

4) Batting with a low run rate:

Virat Kohli stated that India will always play positive and result
oriented cricket.

But if we look at this Test, England batted very conformably, while the Indian team wasn’t able to score as freely as England scored.

Even Virender Sehwag during his commentary constantly said that India played with a slow run-rate.

Surely, there was pressure of runs on the board, but if we want to played result oriented cricket,you will have to go with a better run rate.

5) Pitch :

Virat Kohli in the post match conference stated that he was surprised
to see that much grass on the pitch and that shouldn’t have been the
case.

It clearly showed that the team had something different in their mind
and things didn’t go according to the plan.

The pitch was expected to be good for batsmen initially, but it turned out to a batting paradise for almost 5 days.

Both the teams scored a lot of runs. spin was expected from day 3, but it still didn’t do much as expected except the last 1 hour.

I’m sure that we are not going to see a pitch like these in the rest of the series.
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