India lost to Australia by 66 runs in their first ODI at the Sydney Cricket Ground. For Australia, captain Aaron Finch and Steve Smith scored impressive centuries and scored centuries, but Maxwell batted hard in the last over to give Australia a mighty 374. In response, despite the innings of Hardik Pandya (90) and Shikhar Dhawan (74), India were able to score only 308 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in 50 overs. Off spin bowler Harbhajan Singh expressed his displeasure over the team’s performance and blamed India’s fielding loss.
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Speaking to India Today, Harbhajan Singh said: ‘Things have not gone in favor of India. I am sure India played good cricket to pieces, but the fielding of the team was very poor, there were many misfields, and many catches were missed. You want to catch every single catch that comes to you in international cricket, but it’s unfortunate that it doesn’t. If the team’s fielders do not support the bowler, the bowler is injured. It happened today.
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Speaking of bowling, Harbhajan Singh said, ‘I think everyone had a very difficult day except Mohammad Shami. It was the first match and you have to adapt to the bounce and conditions to play in Australia. What length should you bowl? So in the early overs, the Indian bowlers threw small balls with the new ball. You need to bowl at full length to get a wicket early, which has not happened today and that is why Australia have been able to score so much, which has reduced India’s chances of winning the chase.
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