Prem Panicker

Dec 8, 2024 | rediff.com | Prem Panicker

The good news is the team management has enough time on hand to think through the defeat and to find answers to the questions Adelaide has thrown up, around both its batting and bowling before the next test begins. IMAGE: Australia won the Adelaide Test to level the series 1-1. If you want to sum up the reasons for India's 10-wicket defeat in the pink ball Test in Adelaide, it is this: India batted a mere 81 overs across two innings.

Dec 7, 2024 | rediff.com | Prem Panicker

India did not respect the match situation, the playing conditions, and the bowlers, and they've paid a price for it. IMAGE: Nitish Kumar Reddy and Rishabh Pant were at crease on stumps on Day 2 of the Adelaide Test. In a day-night game in Adelaide, the third session of play is arguably the hardest for batsmen, thanks to a combination of first the creeping twilight, and then the lights being switched on, both assisting movement for the new pink ball.

Dec 6, 2024 | rediff.com | Prem Panicker

At the end of the first day of play, it is the home side that is firmly in control, and India that is now reduced to chasing the game. IMAGE: Jasprit Bumrah celebrates Usman Khawaja's wicket on the first day of the Adelaide Test. So much for 'momentum', a word much favoured by commentators, and a phenomenon for which no realistic measure exists.

Dec 5, 2024 | rediff.com | Prem Panicker

Prem Panicker previews the day-night Test at Adelaide. IMAGE: Jasprit Bumrah played a key role in India's win in the first test at Perth. There are many intriguing elements to the second Test in the Border Gavaskar Trophy -- a day/night encounter at Adelaide beginning December 6. India, on a high after a thumping win in the first Test at Perth, returns to the venue where they were bowled out for 36 in the 2020-21 series.

Nov 25, 2024 | rediff.com | Prem Panicker

IMAGE: The jubilant Indian team after a triumphant win over Australia in the Perth Test. The question on day four of the first Test wasn't about whether India would win -- the question always was, when, and by how much. Within minutes of play resuming post tea, by an emphatic margin of 295 runs, were the answers. It is arguably one of the best wins by an Indian Test side in living memory -- particularly because it was a comeback win, after being bundled out for 150 in the first innings.