Brett Lee, an erstwhile Australian cricketer, opines that the Indian cricket team was overconfident when they clean swept New Zealand in a Test series at home this winter, to be humbled 0-3. The Indian team, led by Rohit Sharma came into the series with an unbeaten streak of 18 home Test series since 2013.
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Nonetheless, the hosts were bowled out fortunately by New Zealand making above 200 in the crease for only three of the six innings all together. New Zealand had claimed only two Test wins in India in the past and none of these in the last a decade. Talking about the stunning result on his YouTube channel, Brett Lee was quoted as saying by Hindustan Times:
“Is it a T20 issue? Were the batsmen too attacking? Is it a skill issue? Is it a problem with them not taking the Kiwis too seriously? I think yes, on all formats. They went into the series thinking that we’ll just whitewash the Kiwis, thinking that’s going to be an easy series. And that’s no disrespect to the Kiwis. It’s just that India are so powerful, so strong on home soil,” he said.
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“This is a great learning curve for all out there. Probably not for Aussies because now they’ve got to understand that India will be much-better prepared. They are going to come in strong. They would have got a kick up the backside from their coach, Gautam Gambhir,” Lee said in the same interaction.“This is atrocious, the way they played but they are still a team of champions. They have had a downfall over the last couple of weeks; it does happen in cricket. But this is the time to turn it into positives. The Kiwis caught India off-guard,” he added.