'You reflect back, take a step back or two to analyse...' - Ravi Shastri slams India after embarrassing defeat in Indore Test against Australia

Former Indian head coach and now a commentator, Ravi Shastri has come up very hard while analyzing Team India’s performance in the recently-concluded Indore Test against Australia. Notably, the hosts faced an embarrassing defeat by a big margin of 9 wickets and the scoreline of the series has come to 2-1 from 2-0 for them.

Coming back to Ravi Shastri’s recent statement on the Indian team’s performance, he felt that the hosts’ camp went on to the backfoot just because of overconfidence; and an unnecessary desperation to go after the visitors’ bowling lineup.

"This is what a little complacency, a little bit of overconfidence can do where you take things for granted, you drop guard and this game will bring you down," said Ravi Shastri in the aftermath of the Indore Test between India and Australia.

"I think it was a combination of all these things when you actually cast your mind back to the first innings, see some of the shots played, see some of the over-eagerness to try and dominate in these conditions. You reflect back, take a step back or two to analyze,” he added later.

Players playing for their spots and their opportunities can create a different mindset - Ravi Shastri

Talking about the action of the match, Indian skipper Rohit Sharma won the toss and decided to bat first. The Indian batters couldn’t survive against Australia’s spin trio of Matthew Kuhnemann, Nathan Lyon, and Todd Murphy. Rohit Sharma’s men got all out only on the score of 109 runs. Later on, the Australian team took the lead of 88 runs in the first innings and they bundled India only the score of 163 runs in the second innings.

In their second innings, India could post a target of only 76 runs for Australia to win the match which Australia chased down only for the loss of one wicket.

Later on, Shastri also spoke about the changes in the playing XI of the team for the penultimate fixture of the four-match Test series against the Aussies.

"Change of team too. KL Rahul dropped. Some of those things can be a bit destabilizing, players playing for their spots and their opportunities can create a different mindset," he concluded.