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News Wrap: 'India's decision to use DRS backfired in first Test loss to Australia'

A dominant Australia broke India's unbeaten streak as Virat Kohli and co. got a reality check in the first Test in Pune.

A wrap on who said what after India's shocking defeat.

Indians were a little careless, says Gavaskar

Sunil Gavaskar, Former India Opener

After the massive 333-run defeat to Australia within three days of the opening Test former India skipper Sunil Gavaskar termed the Indian cricket team's approach as "careless".

Gavaskar also criticised the lack of fight by the Virat Kohli-led side, which could only master 105 and 107 in both their innings against the visitors' 260 and 285 at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium here.

"Finishing in half-an-hour just after tea was unbelievable. Indians were a little careless. The Indian batsmen needed to realise that they needed to stay on the wicket," NDTV quoted Gavaskar as saying.

"I can't really remember India losing in two-and-a-half days. It was a bit surprising the way India tackled the Australian spinners. It was probably a bad day. I am disappointed with a lack of fight shown by the Indian team. Getting out in 75 overs in two innings is just not done. This was one of the worst defeats of the Indian team," he added.

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India's decision to use DRS backfires in first Test loss to Australia,  Sydney Morning Herald

India's new-found resolve to use the Decision Review System (DRS) backfired spectacularly in Pune.

There were a range of different factors that led to Australia recording their first Test win in India since 2004. The tourists were much better in the field, while they outperformed the top-ranked Test side with bat and ball.

One of the most stark differences between the two teams was their use of DRS.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India's stubborn resistance to DRS, which had never been used in a Border-Gavaskar battle until Australia took a 1-0 lead in the four-Test series, ended late last year.

Intended to remove umpiring howlers, Virat Kohli's side burned their referrals frivolously throughout the contest that ended on Saturday.

The most glaring example came when openers Murali Vijay and KL Rahul, unhappy with their lbw dismissals, wasted the side's two reviews in just 5.3 overs of India's second innings.

"It's not there to say 'let's hope I get lucky' and you cost your teammates. India's use of the DRS has been pretty ordinary," Shane Warne said on Star Sports.

Michael Clarke suggested Kohli would be "absolutely fuming" with his two openers.

Ravi Shastri, who played 80 Tests for India and was sitting alongside Warne and Clarke, agreed.

"India have had a shocker with the reviews," Shastri said.

"It's so crucial in the fourth innings, they have to be careful.

"How could Rahul review that one?"

Kohli struggled with DRS in the field. He ran out of reviews then straddled the line of dissent when Richard Kettleborough turned down two confident appeals on day three.

Matthew Wade and Steve Smith, who was on 73 at the time and went on to score 109, both would have been out if India were in a position to refer either not- out verdict.

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Australia spin way to massive victory

Andrew Ramsey, Cricket Australia

Anyone flicking through the online records of the first Test of this India-Australia series in years to come looking to understand how such a counter-intuitive result came about need only watch the video of Virat Kohli’s second innings dismissal.

Which the India captain, who was today handed his first Test loss in front of his adulatory supporters in the form of a 333-run spanking inside three days, might need to study closely himself in the week before the teams meet next at Bengaluru.

For it was Kohli’s wicket, shouldering arms to a delivery from player of the match Stephen O’Keefe that found as much spin as it met resistance from the rival skipper’s bat, that exemplified the yawning gulf between the two teams. 

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O’Keefe 12 condemns India to 333-run defeat

Dileep Premachandran, Wisden India

Like those slasher movies where someone or the other is knifed every five minutes, India’s batsmen formed a farcical procession back to the pavilion on the third afternoon of the first Test at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune. At the end of it all, Steve O’Keefe had equaled his first-innings figures of 6 for 35, and Australia, who had set India a mammoth 441 to win, had romped home by 333 runs – their second-biggest victory (by runs) on Indian soil.

Steven Smith’s 18th Test century, in just his 51st Test, was the glue as Australia added a further 142 to their overnight 143 for 4 in an extended morning session that saw 41 overs in 135 minutes. With Mitchell Starc contributing another cameo and Matthew Wade also chipping in, the target that India would have to overhaul went from plausible to nearly impossible. Few though could have predicted that they would capitulate so easily, with the second innings (33.5 overs) lasting 38 balls fewer than the first.

Another hope of India making a real fist of the chase was extinguished in the first six overs. M Vijay was trapped in front by an O’Keefe delivery that skidded straight on, and Nathan Lyon rapped KL Rahul on the pads. On both occasions, the umpires lifted the dreaded finger. Both batsmen reviewed, futilely, leaving their teammates with no recourse to DRS.

A 31-run partnership between Virat Kohli and Cheteshwar Pujara briefly lifted the spirits of a 15,763-strong holiday crowd. Kohli would have been out had Smith opted to review a leg-before appeal from O’Keefe that had been turned down – the ball struck the pad first – but as it was, Australia didn’t have long to wait for the prize wicket.

O’Keefe darted one in outside off stump, and Kohli shouldered arms, playing for turn that wasn’t there. The off stump was uprooted. Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane then played a few attacking strokes to try and disperse the field, but with so many runs to bank on, there was no need for Smith to go on the defensive.

After a 30-run stand, another Indian mistake gave Australia the breakthrough, with Rahane scooping O’Keefe to cover. R Ashwin tried to play O’Keefe with bat and pad close together, and this time Smith reviewed when the appeal was turned down. On the stroke of tea, a slider from O’Keefe trapped Wriddhiman Saha in front. And after that, it was all over in a jiffy.

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