Australia vs India 2018-19: 5 things we learnt from the Test series

#4 Australia’s batting woes

Aaron Finch was one of the major disappointments

In the four-match series, the Australian batsmen failed to score a hundred. There were eight fifties from the Australian side with Marcus Harris and Travis Head contributing two each. On the other hand, India had the same number of fifties but they had five hundreds, with Cheteshwar Pujara scoring three.

None of the Aussie batsmen average over 40. Marnus Labuschagne, who played just one innings, emerged with the highest average which is 38. India’s Mayank Agarwal, who played just three innings, had a better average than all the Australian batsmen.

It's easy to see that the batting was one of the prime reasons for Australia’s series loss. The batsmen kept getting starts but none of them could go on and get a big score in any of the games. 79 was the highest individual score by an Australian in this series, which highlights their batting fragility.

In the absence of the two big stalwarts, Steve Smith and David Warner, the batting has failed big time and it looks very vulnerable.