Allan Border and Matthew Hayden BLAST Australia after they lose NINE wickets in a session AGAIN

Cricket greats Allan Border and Matthew Hayden criticized Australia’s ‘panic batting’ after a disastrous second-innings collapse in Delhi on Sunday.

Australia’s wait for a first Test series win in India since 2004 will continue after the hosts wrapped up the Border-Gavaskar Trophy by winning the second Test by six wickets to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the Test series. four parties.

Beaten by an innings and 132 runs at Nagpur in the opening Test after losing 10 wickets in a single session in their second dig, Australia managed to lose nine at the Arun Jaitley Stadium.

The tourists resumed with a 1-61 mark on the third day of the second test, leading by 62 after Travis Head and Marnus Labuschagne put together a useful 38-run partnership before stumps on Saturday.

But any hope Australia may have of setting a towering target evaporated in a chaotic morning session, which saw the tourists lose 9-47 as they collapsed to 113 on aggregate.

Smith was playing a sweeping shot to Ravi Ashwin when Australia lost nine wickets in one session

Ravindra Jadeja (centre) finished with a career best of 7-42 as India went on a rampage

Australia’s attempts to sweep the Indian spinners failed spectacularly, with Steve Smith, Matthew Renshaw and captain Pat Cummins ruled out as they tried to play the same shot.

“I’m angry at the way they did it today,” Border said on Fox Cricket.

‘It was kind of a panicked, frantic batting […] no one went in there to stem the flow with some good defensive cricket.

‘Everyone was coming out to play sweep shot, reverse sweep to almost every ball.

You can’t get away with that kind of track. You have to have a method.

‘You’re not playing on a flat belt where you can expand your game. When you play on a difficult surface, you have to figure out where your scoring options are and hit a little bit at the crease.’

Border was particularly scathing about firing Smith: “When you’re playing crossovers with the bat and the ball doesn’t bounce, he misses by a mile,” he said.

“You’re just giving the ref a chance to take it out.”

Hayden was equally brutal about Australia’s approach, lamenting that the Aussies had undone all their hard work from day two in one session.

“I can’t believe what I just witnessed here,” he said.

‘These are world-class players, and they have everything to gain and everything to lose in this session.

Ravi Ashwin took three wickets in 16 overs as India secured a series win against Australia

Allan Border (left) and Matthew Hayden were scathing in their assessment of Australia’s performance in the second Test of the series against India.

They did very well last night in those few overs. Strong scoring rate, good defense, proactive hitting.

“But what we have seen here is a disaster for Australia. They have crossed the line in terms of their aggressive play.

Head departed in the first over of the day, beating a sharply spinning Ravi Ashwin delivery, before India’s star spinner caught Smith LBW for nine.

The worst was yet to come as Australia lost four scoreless wickets in 11 deliveries before drinks broke as Ravindra Jadeja took out Labuschagne, Peter Handscomb and Cummins while Ashwin caught Renshaw up front.

Mike Hussey was unimpressed with Cummins’ ill-advised attempt to sweep Jadeja out of the park, describing it as “just a horrible shot”.

Alex Carey and Nathan Lyon temporarily steadied the ship with a 15-run partnership, only to have both of them bowled out in a few overs by Jadeja.

The all-rounder then completed his excellent performance with debutant bowler Matthew Kuhnemann for a duck finish to figures of 7-42, the best comeback for an Indian bowler against Australia in Test cricket in 19 years.

It left India chasing a modest target of 113, which they reached with six wickets to spare before the tea break.