“Car crash in slow motion,” Aussie coach Venuto reveals dressing room chaos after Delhi disaster

Five of the nine batters exited the field while attempting a sweep or reverse sweep. Venuto said that there was no plan of playing sweep shots against the spinners but the batsmen had gone away from the plans and got themselves in trouble.

“Car crash in slow motion,” Aussie coach Venuto reveals dressing room chaos after Delhi disaster

Steve Smith

Steve Smith was angry after getting out cheaply against Ravichandran Ashwin, which triggered a collapse and saw the tourists losing eight wickets before lunch on Day 3. Smith attempted his first sweep shot in the entire series, and after getting trapped by Ashwin, he fumed over his mistake in the dressing room.

“He was certainly disappointed when he got out and he made it known that it was a poor shot in the dressing room,” Aussie batting coach Michael Di Venuto told reporters on Tuesday night. “I think most people would have heard that, they should have had a fair idea of what not to do. It was just one of those moments in the game when you’re under pressure from world-class bowlers, things happen sometimes, it’s unusual for him,” he added.

Venuto said he had not spoken to Smith after his outburst. “It was like a car crash in slow motion isn’t it,” Venuto compared the 90 minutes of madness in Delhi with a car crash. Five of the nine batters exited the field while attempting a sweep or reverse sweep. Venuto then added that there was no plan of playing sweep shots against the spinners but the batsmen had gone away from the plans and got themselves in trouble. He claimed that the batsmen were under pressure which is why they moved away from their plans, and later they paid the consequence.

Marnus Labuschagne and Travis Head had given a good start to the team, giving a 62-run lead after stumps on Day 2, and it looked as if the visitors are going to give tough competition to the hosts, but not in front of Ravindra Jadeja and Ashwin, who feasted on the batters on Sunday morning. 

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Australia haven’t got anything right in series against India 

Aussie coach dressing room
Pat Cummins

Australia faced a similar collapse in the Delhi Test as that of the Nagpur one. The game got over within Day 3 itself. The tourists tried different plans to face the spinners, but nothing worked. And ahead of the third Test in Indore, they are now dealing with fresh concerns.

Their star opener David Warner has been ruled out due to a hairline fracture and so is Josh Hazlewood. Hazlewood was expected to recover in time for the third Test. 

Mitchell Starc and Cameron Green did not play in the first two Tests. Spinner Ashton Agar is going back to Australia to play domestic cricket, and skipper Pat Cummins also went to Australia due to personal reasons but is expected to come back before the next match.

Amidst Australia’s poor show in both the Tests, the legendary Allan Border blasted Pat Cummins and co. after the Delhi Test. “They have got to turn off their radios and stop reading newspapers for the next couple of days, that’s for sure because they’re going to call peeps but year they’ve got to sit down and talk about the methodology of playing quality spin bowling,” Border said during a conversation with Fox Cricket. 

The cricket officials were also slammed by former Aussie players for not organizing tour games in the subcontinent but letting the players play in the Big Bash League (BBL) before flying out to India.

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