4 Reasons for Defeat Against Australia: The Indian team, which started the Australia tour with a win, has suffered a terrible defeat in the Sydney Test match. A 5-match Test series was played between the two teams where India made a great start to the tour by winning the first Test match played in Perth by 295 runs. But after this the team went off the winning track and lost the second Test played in Adelaide by 10 wickets. After this the third Test was very important for India which was played in Gabba but this Test match played in Brisbane was a draw. It was expected that by winning the Boxing Day Test, the Indian team would level the series but it did not happen. Australia won this Test played in Melbourne. And took the lead in the series. After this, Team India could have drawn the series by winning the Sydney Test but it did not happen. Here it lost by 6 wickets on the third day itself. Along with losing the Border Gavaskar Trophy after 10 years, it also lost the chance to reach the WTC final. After the series ended, Team India is being heavily criticized. There were 5 major reasons for the Indian team's defeat in the Sydney Test.

The pair of young openers Yashasvi Jaiswal and KL Rahul disappointed in the last Test. In the Sydney Test match, India won the toss and decided to bat first but Jaiswal and Rahul could not give the Indian team a good start. Jaiswal scored 10 runs in the first innings and 22 runs in the second innings, while Rahul returned to the pavilion after scoring 4 runs in the first innings and 13 runs in the second innings. Team India collapsed for 185 runs in the first innings while in the second innings it was reduced to 157 runs.

The gamble played on Gill instead of Rohit was a flop.
In the Sydney Test match, Rohit Sharma dropped himself and gave a chance to Shubman Gill. But this young batsman could not live up to the expectations. This gamble of India failed. Gill, who came at number two, got out after scoring 20 runs in the first innings and 13 runs in the second innings. Gill got a chance to play in 3 Test matches in this series but he could not even score 100 runs.

Virat Kohli disappointed
Star batsman Virat Kohli started the tour with a century in the Perth Test but after that his bat remained silent. In Sydney, when the team needed a big innings from Virat, he returned to the pavilion leaving the team in the lurch after scoring 17 runs in the first innings and 6 runs in the second innings. 190 runs came off his bat in this series. He was consistently out in Australia on balls going outside the off stump. Virat also struggled for runs in the home Test series against New Zealand last year.

Jadeja was unsuccessful in the entire series
Ravindra Jadeja was not able to show his magic with either the bat or the ball in the entire series. He did not get a single wicket. He was out after scoring 26 runs in the first innings of the Sydney Test while in the second innings, he scored 13 runs. There were high expectations from Jadeja on the third day of the Sydney Test match, who returned unbeaten on the second day but on Sunday he returned after adding 5 runs to his yesterday's score and putting the team in trouble. The same was the case with the team's other all-rounder Washington Sundar who could not show anything special.