The Indian ODI team was very old school,’ Michael Vaughan thinks India will lose in all forms against Australia.

Key points:

1.  Team India did not look like a top side during their first international match in 9 months.
2. Australia gave India a huge target of 375 to chase.
3. I believe Australia will convincingly beat India in all formats on this tour.
4. The “old school” attitude of playing five specialist bowlers that backfired badly did not please Vaughan.

Team India did not look like a top side during their first international match in 9 months. They seemed rusty in the area, leaking too many bowling runs as well as could not get their batting together despite having sparks.

A huge target of 375 to India:

Their players performed in the Indian Premier League, but they could not play at the Sydney Cricket Ground during the first One Day International against Australia as a team. 

With Aaron Finch as well as Steve Smith scoring centuries for the home side, Australia gave India a huge target of 375 to chase.

Michael Vaughan a staunch critic of the Indian team:

As they proceeded to score 308 also for the loss of eight wickets, India can’t perform miserably with the bat. As they hit 90 as well as 74 respectively, Hardik Pandya and Shikhar Dhawan saved India from a precarious role.

But India’s success did not inspire former England captain Michael Vaughan. Vaughan is a strong critic of the Indian cricket team and projected that in all three formats of the tour that started on Friday, Virat Kohli’s men would lose to Australia.

With a 66-run loss towards Australia in the first ODI, India made a disastrous start to the tour but looked more importantly as a unit out of sorts.

Michael Vaughan tweeted on Friday:

“Early call…. “I believe Australia will convincingly beat India in all formats on this tour,” Vaughan tweeted on Friday.

India’s old school game attitude:

The “old school” attitude of playing five specialist bowlers that backfired badly did not please Vaughan. 

This ODI team from India is too (sic) old school for me…. Only 5 choices for bowling & the batting isn’t wide sufficient.

Friday’s ODI witnessed India take more than four hours to fulfill its overs quota and it wasn’t too amusing for Vaughan.

Another tweet of Michael Vaughan:

“India’s rate of excess is appalling… Defensive body language … Fielding is my (shocking) norm…… Standard bowling!!! The Aussies, on the other hand, were extraordinary… Long India tour, I guess,’ he tweeted.