Single decision brought Aussie batters undone

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Former skipper Michael Clarke has taken purpose astatine Australia's preparations for the Test bid against India, following a disastrous opening day of the series.

India finished time 1 astatine 1-77 successful reply to Australia's archetypal innings of 177, with Ravindra Jadeja taking 5-47 for the location team.

Australia didn't play a warm-up lucifer successful India, alternatively preferring to hole spinning wickets astatine North Sydney Oval successful an effort to replicate the Indian conditions, followed by a abbreviated campy successful Bengaluru.

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That followed the debacle successful Sri Lanka successful 2022, wherever the signifier wickets provided were greenish seamers, portion the Test pitches were raging turners.

Speaking connected Sky Sports Radio's The Big Sports Breakfast, Clarke said Australia had been fto down by its preparation.

"They would person been amended disconnected batting successful the nets for an other week successful India, than batting successful Australia," helium said.

"This is not astir winning oregon losing, this is astir what I've seen already. This is wherefore I deliberation you request clip successful a state similar India, not truthful overmuch the players who made nary runs, that's going to hap successful these conditions.

"I'm not acrophobic astir that part. I'm acrophobic astir the blokes who got in. Four blokes made 25 plus."

Clarke was referring to Marnus Labuschagne (49), Steve Smith (37), Alex Carey (36) and Peter Handscomb (31), who each failed to person a commencement into a people of substance.

"The quality successful this Test lucifer already is Rohit Sharma. He's present (56) not out," Clarke explained.

"One of our blokes who got in, who got to 25 oregon 30, needs to beryllium that antheral to spell connected and marque 50-80-100-150, immoderate it is.

"In India, the astir unit is connected you if you get in, due to the fact that you cognize however hard it is to commencement your innings. The lone mode you get that successful your strategy is to bash it successful a game.

"They each person their ain plans, but to bash it for agelong periods of time, you request to signifier it.

"At the infinitesimal they've got a program that's moving astatine the start, but it runs retired of state due to the fact that they haven't trained it, they haven't practiced it."

Clarke, who made 3 Test hundreds successful India, including 151 connected debut, said batting connected the subcontinent required a wholly antithetic approach.

"Watch Ravi Ashwin bat," helium explained.

"I watched him for 5 balls past nighttime support our spinners. If we bat similar that, we tin triumph this series. He gets adjacent to the ball, oregon helium gets arsenic acold distant from the shot arsenic possible.

"At the infinitesimal we're successful between. In Australia, due to the fact that it doesn't rotation truthful sharply, you tin beryllium backmost a small spot and get distant with it. In India, you request to deed the shot connected the afloat if you can.

"If you can't get it connected the full, program B is get it connected the fractional volley. We're inactive abbreviated of fractional volley. There's fractional a ft betwixt fractional volley and wherever we're hitting the ball, which allows the shot to rotation truthful overmuch more.

"Labuschagne played beautifully, but you look astatine the shot that got him out. He's gone for the large screen drive, the shot looks similar it's there, which successful Australia it is. In India, you've got to beryllium fractional a ft person to the shot to play that large screen drive."

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