India defended the Border-Gavaskar trophy after beating Australia in the fourth and final Test in Brisbane. Former Aussie spinner Shane Warne feels that there cane be a “huge fallout” after the defeat in the Australian team.
"I think there'll be a huge fallout from this. There's not too many times that you lose to the second or third (choice) side," Foxsports.com.au quoted Warne as saying.
"That's not taking anything away from those Indian guys that played but their first selection side, there's probably only two or three players in that side who would play," he added.
Warne further said that the bowling department’s performance will also come under scrutiny. "Their tactics will come into question, and they have to. Bowlers will come into question, people's spot in the team will come into question. It has to," said Warne.
"You can't just deflect it and flick it off and say India were too good for us. Yes, they were, but Australia had so many chances in this series to bury it and crush India, but they couldn't do it. They just couldn't do it. There'll be a big fallout from this," the former spinner added.
India were bundled out for 36 in second innings of the first Test while Australia completed the win by 8 wickets. But the visitors turned the fortunes for themselves in the second match and levelled the series. The third match ended in a draw, courtesy some heroics from Cheteshwar Pujara, Rishabh Pant, R Ashwin and Hanuma Vihari.
The two sides then met in Brisbane for the decided and India chased down a target of 328 by 3 wickets.
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