#2 India's short ball tactic comes apart

With just 118 on the board, India needed their quicker men to utilise the moisture on the surface and generate swing and extract some life from the wicket. While Bumrah and Bhuvneshwar sent back Australia's openers very early in the chase, Moises Henriques and Travis Head stuck together to ease the pressure on the visitors.
India's tactic against the right-left duo was to land it short and they went about doing it consistently without reaping rewards. Head and Henriques are quite adept at handling the short stuff but Hardik Pandya and Bumrah kept bowling it short, resulting in the Aussies cruising to victory.
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