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'THE MENTALITY OF THIS INDIAN TEAM IS LIKE AUSTRALIA IN THE 90S': GOUGH FEELS ENGLAND BATTERED AFTER CONSECUTIVE DEFEATS Byhindustantimes.com, New Delhi Feb 28, 2021 07:46 AM IST

INDIA VS ENGLAND: AS FAR AS INDIA’S PERFORMANCE GOES, GOUGH SEES A LOT OF THE MIGHTY AUSTRALIA THAT DOMINATED CRICKET IN THE LATE 90S AND 2000S IN THE CURRENT INDIAN TEAM AND ITS THOUGHT

PROCESS. Former England fast bowler Darren Gough believes England have been unable to make the most of the momentum acquired by winning the first Test against India in Chennai. After losing

the first match of the series by 227 runs, India made a roaring comeback in the second, winning the Test match by 317 runs and levelling the series. Ahmedabad hosted the third Test of the

series – a Day/Night fixture which India needed less than two days to wrap up with a 10-wicket win. While a lot of talk has been around the pitch and how it may not have been an ideal advert

for Test cricket, Gough doesn’t agree that the surface was unplayable, although he did make it a point to mention that Test matches should certainly last for more than two days. ALSO READ |

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expect the game to finish in two days – you don’t expect any Test match to finish in two days – but we’d put a side together that trusted each other and believed we could win in any

situation," Gough told the PA news agency. "It wasn’t an unplayable pitch, a bit of swing but not too quick. I’d say it was a good new ball pitch and if you got it right you were a

handful." ALSO READ | 'SOME EXTREME CRITICISM NOT REALLY FAIR,' GAVASKAR WEIGHS IN ON PITCH DEBATE With England now having lost back-to-back Tests, Gough reckons the visiting

team’s confidence is dented and that Joe Root and his side will find it tough to come back in the fourth and final Test starting Thursday. As far as India’s performance goes, Gough sees a

lot of the mighty Australia that dominated cricket in the late 90s and 2000s in the current Indian team and its thought process. “This England team have been battered in back-to-back games

now and it’s going to be very difficult to come back from that. You can imagine the mentality of some of the lads will be quite fragile. The mentality of this India now is like Australia in

the 90s: get a team by the throat and win, win, win,” Gough added. * India Vs England * Darren Gough * Indian Cricket Team Orange Cap in IPL 2025, Purple Cap in IPL 2025 , and IPL Points

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