Rohit’s blunder… and Team India got trapped in its own trap, made a shameful record

New Delhi. The Indian team, which is a contender for victory in the Bengaluru Test, has made a record of lowest score at home. New Zealand bowled out India for just 46 runs. This is India’s smallest score and score in home test matches and the third smallest overall. New Zealand pacers Matt Henry and William Orook forced India to put up this shameful performance. Winning the toss and bowling first also proved costly for India.

Indian captain Rohit Sharma won the toss on Thursday and decided to bat first. he/she said that the team wants to score a good score first. However, the kind of moisture there was on the pitch and the help the fast bowlers got, it seemed that Rohit’s decision was wrong. However, as soon as Rohit won the toss, he/she made it clear why he/she wanted to bat first. But if we look at the playing eleven of Team India, it seems that it was a compulsion to bat first.

Team India has entered this match with 3 spinners and two fast bowlers. This is in complete contrast to the India-Bangladesh series. India had fielded 3 pacers and 2 spinners in the Chennai and Kanpur test matches against Bangladesh. It is clear that the Indian captain-coach made a wrong guess about the Bengaluru pitch. When there is forecast of rain for the first 4 days of the match and the pitch is expected to help the fast bowlers, then excluding the fast bowler from the playing eleven and including the spinner cannot be called the right decision.

It seems that the planning of the Indian team was to make a big score in the first innings of the match. After this, New Zealand should be trapped in the web of spinners in the second and fourth innings. If this was the planning then it would not have been thought that India would have to bowl only in the third hour of the match. At least that is what the bowling combination indicates.

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