After about four years, just before Team India was going to tour Australia again, it had to see the same day which was seen in Adelaide. In the Adelaide Test on Australia tour in December 2020, Team India was bundled out for just 36 runs, which is its lowest score in the history of Test cricket. Now after a month, Team India has to go to Australia again but before that Team India was all out for just 46 runs. The only difference is that this time this situation happened on their own soil and that too in front of the fast bowling of New Zealand. Australia's excellent bowling at that time was the reason for this. This time also New Zealand's bowling was excellent but some of the reasons for this were the bad decisions of Team India, which raises questions on captain Rohit Sharma and coach Gautam Gambhir.

Decision to choose batting first

The first day's play in Bengaluru was washed out due to rain. Even the toss could not take place. In such a situation, the pitch was covered most of the time. In such a situation, it was clear that there must have been moisture on the pitch. On the next day, when the match started early in the morning, the sky was still cloudy and there was darkness. It was also anticipated that the game might stop midway due to rain. Even the match itself started with flood lights switched on. So much was visible since morning but even then why did Indian captain Rohit Sharma win the toss and decide to bat first? How did the coach and the captain together make such a big mistake? Did he not understand at all that early start time could be helpful for fast bowlers and New Zealand had three main pacers.

mistake of playing big shots

If the first mistake was not enough, then after that the batsmen also left no stone unturned and once again captain Rohit started it. New Zealand's fast bowlers had created pressure from the beginning and had dodged the bats of Rohit-Yashaswi Jaiswal several times. Still, luck was on our side and both of them were saved. In such a situation, there was a need to play steady as long as the bowlers were getting help, but captain Rohit wanted to go ahead and play a big shot against experienced pacer Tim Southee but was bowled. Then Sarfaraz Khan also gave up his wicket on the third ball while trying to hit a shot in the air. Virat Kohli got a good ball but due to his habit of being on the front foot every time, he could not avoid it. Whereas KL Rahul could not flick the ball properly on the leg stump and gave away the wicket.

mistakes in batting order

The decisions taken in the batting order put Team India in even more trouble. Shubman Gill could not play in this match due to neck pain, due to which Team India had to field some other batsman at number three and this is where the team management made a mistake. After Rohit's dismissal, Virat Kohli was sent to the third position, whereas he last batted at this position 8 years ago. His record at number three was already bad and he was not in good form recently. This decision was surprising because the team also has a batsman like KL Rahul, who has opened most of the time in his career and in such a situation could have faced the new ball at number three. If this was not a small mistake, then even after Kohli's dismissal, instead of sending Rahul or Pant, inexperienced batsman Sarfaraz Khan was promoted to number four and he too remained at 0.