Former Australia cricketer Kerry O'Keeffe spoke about the strategy adopted by Australia to attack India's captain and bring the team down straight away. O'Keeffe claimed Australia were successful as they forced Rohit Sharma to sit out of the last match.
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“So it’s come to pass. The Australian tactic for years has been to look to bring down the opposition captain, and it’s been, if you look at the series they’ve won, it’s worked the whole time,” O’Keeffe said.
How did Australia attack opposition captains?
Kerry O’Keeffe further cited the examples of how Australia have previously attacked the opposition captains in order to bring the whole team down. He claimed that Australia were not successful against Ajinkya Rahane in the BGT 2020-21 and as a result, they lost the series.
“They couldn’t get Rahane Ajinkya the last time and he won the series. But if you look at the captains they’ve brought down in recent times, Sharma. Tick. Shan Masood with Pakistan. It was three-nil. Kraigg Brathwaite, it was one-all, but they were on top of Kraigge. They went to New Zealand and brought down Tim Southee, winning two-nil," O’Keeffe added.
Kerry O'Keeffe breaks down Australia's strategy against Rohit Sharma
“They couldn’t bring down (Jasprit) Bumrah. He was too good. But then the baton was passed to Rohit Sharma and they brought him down straight away, to the extent that he withdrew from the final Test. So that’s a tactic they seem to want to do if they can, if they can break the skipper and make him anonymous, it empowers them,” O'Keefe observed.
In Rohit's absence, vice-captain Jasprit Bumrah led India in the first and fifth Tests. Bumrah led India to a historic win in Perth and almost led the team to a win in Sydney before a back injury forced him out of the match.
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