Matthew Hayden criticizes Team India's batting performance after Day-Night Test in Adelaide

Travis Head's aggressive century and exceptional bowling performances by Mitchell Starc and captain Pat Cummins were the standout moments as Australia once again asserted their pink-ball cricket supremacy, crushing India by a convincing 10-wicket margin in the second Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series at Adelaide Oval on Sunday.

With this win, Australia has bounced back big time from a 295-run loss at Perth and levelled the five-match series 1-1. Also, they have kept their unbeaten run in pink ball Tests at Adelaide Oval alive, registering their eighth win in eight matches. This has put a dent on India's ICC World Test Championship chances.

"Team India just did not bat well enough, there's no doubt. Even though this was a difficult track to bat on, they should not have been bowled out in under a day and a half. So that needs to be rectified for the Brisbane test match," Matthew Hayden said while speaking to Star Sports.

Coming to the match, India won the toss and opted to bat first. However, they had to face the wrath of a moving, erratic pink-ball and its mastermind, Mitchell Starc . Except for a 69-run stand for the second wicket between KL Rahul and Shubman Gill and a fighting 42 in 54 balls from Nitish Kumar Reddy, there was not much highlights from India who were skittled out for 180 runs. Skipper Cummins and Scott Boland also took two wickets.

In the first innings, a 67-run partnership between Nathan McSweeney and Marnus Labuschagne for second wicket set the platform for Travis Head to impose his domination over Indian bowlers yet again with a counter-attacking 140 in 141 balls, with 17 fours and four sixes, just when Aussies lost some regular wickets. His century took Australia to 337 runs and gave them a 157-run lead.

Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj were top bowlers for India. Ravichandran and Nitish got a wicket each.

In their second innings, India appeared even more toothless as the star-studded top-order and middle-order returned back to pavillion despite starts from Jaiswal , Gill while KL Rahul and Virat Kohli failed to score well. India ended day two at 128/5.

On the third day, Pant also lost his wicket for 28 in 31 balls, with five fours. From there on, it was not looking back for the Aussies, who skittled out India for 175 runs in 36.5 overs. India lead by just 18 runs, setting Aussies 19 runs to win.

Skipper Cummins took a majestic five-wicket haul, his eighth as a captain. Boland took 3/51 while Starc took 2/60.

Set a target of 19 runs, Khawaja and McSweeney chased it down without breaking a sweat in 3.2 overs.

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