LUDHIANA: As India suffered a humiliating defeat in the first test match against Australia by scoring all time low test score of 36 runs in its first test at Adelaide match on Saturday.
The cricket lovers in city were furious and heart broken over this crushing defeat which has spread a pall of gloom amongst the fans.
Social media too was flooded with the reactions from the disappointed residents many of whom were seen gunning for Indian cricket coach Ravi Shastri and other team members.
“Indian cricket team should focus on match practices rather than paying attention towards promotion and Advertisements,” said Rajesh Verma, a resident of Pink Vihar, GT road.
It is such as shame over Indian cricket captains that they lost so badly that is only 36scores and they were all out. It was not expected from our team,” rued Sushma Puri, a Resident,Surya Enclave.
While resenting the poor performance and blaming the over exposure due to a series of matches including 20-20 matches, some residents even criticised BCCI for not properly maintaining the schedule of the team.
“I will not watch any further matches of this series as it is clear Indian team is not sweating out enough in the field to win matches so it's waste of my time to watch this tournament,” said Gurpreet Kaur Sethi, a resident of Salem Tabri
“India hadn't lost any of their 25 Tests when Virat Kohli won the toss prior to today!It took an unbelievable effort from Australia's bowlers to end that streak,” said Sukaran Singh, a resident of Punjab Mata Nagar.
“A day to remember for Australia as they bowled India out for their lowest total in Test history,” said Jang Bahadur Singh,Resident,New Sarabha nagar
However there were some die hard fans who thought that the team can still come out of the crushing defeat and it should focus on the next game. Winning and losing even if badly were two sides of the coin, they mainained.
“No need to be stress about who won who loss as winning and losing is part of a game. One should focus on giving his best and keep away the stress,” consoled another resident of the area Bikramjit Singh.