‘There were some people who went clearly away from the game plan’, Andrew McDonald

Australia head coach Andrew McDonald left no stone unturned about his team’s surrender in the second innings of the second Test here, saying they “failed the test” from India.

Andrew was quoted as saying by Australian Associated Press on Monday –

“Our methods are going to be critiqued, and rightfully so. At the end of day two, if you said our preparation was good (with Australia on 61/1), you’d probably have a different slant on it, but within an hour (on day 3) then people start to critique what happened in the past…”

“And day three, as well as we could have been and we failed under the examination of India,” added McDonald, who replaced Justin Langer as head coach after Australia’s 4-0 win in the Ashes.”

The coach said that as far as he understood, the preparatory camp at the turning track in Bengaluru had provided enough preparation for the spin test.

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McDonald said on Monday – “I still wouldn’t have changed what we did leading in, there’s no doubt about that. I think they (squad) had really good preparation in Bangalore, so there’s not any excuses.”

Andrew also said that some players diverted from their time-tested game plan, which resulted in the second humiliating defeat –

“There were some people who went clearly away from the game plan that made them successful over a period of time and that’s for us to own as a collective. We’ve got to be better than that, that’s the bottom line, we’ve got to own it and we are not here to shy away from the fact that wasn’t good enough.”