In the four-match Test series, Australia is down 0-2 to India, and former cricketer Harbhajan Singh has dubbed the visitors a “mentally fragile” team.

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In the four-match Test series, Australia is down 0-2 to India, and former cricketer Harbhajan Singh has dubbed the visitors a “mentally fragile” team. On Wednesday, when the third Test begins in Indore, India will have the opportunity to go up 3-0 and win the series. Due to the Australian hitters’ inability to deal with India’s spin trio of Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, and Axar Patel, the hosts have already successfully retained the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. The Australian squad, which is now playing in India, has at times, in Harbhajan’s opinion, appeared “clueless.”

“If you compare to other Australian teams which toured earlier – we don’t want to go 30-40 years back but even if we go that far – I think this is probably the weakest team. Not in terms of skills, mentally they are very fragile. They are not able to handle pressure the way the Aussies used to. It’ll be fair to say this is not the Aussie-Aussie kind of team that we used to see or play against,” Harbhajan told The Indian Express in an interview. Australian cricket has traditionally been played by a strategically savvy nation, according to Harbhajan, who announced his retirement from the sport last year, but the current team has appeared “clueless” since travelling to India.

“The Aussies used to have a lot of plans before touring any country. They understood the conditions better than the other teams. That’s the reason they were a bit more successful than others, even in India. This team, particularly, are clueless. They don’t have any plans. In the first game, they were clueless. They knew these conditions would be challenging for any batter – the ball will spin from the first ball. It’s not something that’s started to happen now; it’s been happening for the last eight-10 years. In 2012-13, they lost on similar wickets. They were clueless even at that point in time but they fought better than this. But this team, I don’t see anyone standing up and taking those challenges and trying to do something different than what others are doing,” he added.