The Men In Blue faced a humiliating defeat by Australia in their 1st day/night pink ball Test at the Adelaide, Oval on Saturday. The batting line-up failed very badly to perform as skipper Virat Kohli, who scored a decent half-century in the first innings, scored only 4 along with Cheteshwar Pujara who is considered to be a Test specialist could not open the account even. Rahane too went back after scoring a 0.
Later on, during the final moment, Mohammed Shami was hit on the elbow of his bowling hand and had to retire hurt as India finished the innings with the lead of 89.
Australia got a run chase of 90 to win. A welcome knock from Joe Burns who scored 51 runs and built an important opening partnership of 70 runs with Matthew Wade. Then, Marnus Labuschagne came in at number three but had to leave early after Ashwin struck him in the 20th over.
Later on, finally came Steve Smith, but it was Burns who finished the match with a six over fine leg which also brought Burns’ seventh Test fifty along with the 1st Test win.
Reactions were outpoured on Twitter after India shockingly lost the 1st test against Australia, among the fans, many cricketers were also shocked by India’s performance and the collapse of the batting line-up and showed up their disappointment through tweets. Let’s have a look at them.
