Painful defeat for the Aussies

Adelaide, Dec. 10: Australian skipper Tim Paine found the 31- run defeat to India “hard to take” but said they will take inspiration from their fighting fifth- day effort in the opening Test and head to Perth with “real belief ”.

“It won’t be any more difficult than this is. Every Test match is a huge challenge and we’ve expected this series to be an absolute arm- wrestle from the get go,” Paine said.

“If you want to be a good team you have got to be hard to beat and today we were hard to beat, we made India work really hard, I think we made them work harder than they thought they were going to have to work. “We have picked the same team for the first two Tests and we are going there ( Perth) with real belief.” Australia batted more overs than India in this Test, yet ended up on the losing side. Paine said this was an area of improvement for the series ahead.

I love test cricket & its drama! Great fight from Australia's lower order today and it should be — this is test cricket. Terrific test match & congrats to @ imVkohli & his men! Bring on Perth.