Australia coach Andrew McDonald has traced his team's catastrophic collapse in the second Test against India to the players making crucial individual mistakes.
India won the second Test by six wickets in Delhi on Sunday after Australia collapsed from 1-61 to 113 all out in just 90 minutes.
Having lost 10 wickets in a session in the opening Test in Nagpur in which they were thrashed by an innings and 132 runs, the tourists lost nine before lunch at the Arun Jaitley Stadium.
The circumstances surrounding Australia's implosion have come under the microscope, with the visitors' attempt to sweep Indian spinners backfiring spectacularly as they lost 9-47.
Travis Head, who top scored for Australia with 43 in the second innings, and Peter Handscomb were out to excellent deliveries that flicked the edge of their bats and Marnus Labuschagne was bowled by Ravindra Jadeja after misreading length.
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All the other seven Australian batters, however, got out after attempting a sweep shot.
Pat Cummins' dismissal was arguably the most egregious of all, with the captain looking to lift Jadeja over mid-wicket with an ill-advised agricultural mow but getting nowhere near the ball as the Indian spinner detonated his furniture.
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