India vs Australia: We failed India 'examination,' admits Australia coach Andrew McDonald after Delhi hammering

Australia coach Andrew McDonald has defended his team's preparation for 4-Test Border-Gavaskar Trophy against India after the visitors suffered a humiliating collapse to lose the second Test in Delhi by six wickets.

The world number one ranked Test team in the world lost their last eight wickets for just 80 runs as Ravindra Jadeja returned with figures of seven for 42. He castled as many as five players and the sweeping Australia batters had no answer for the charging left-arm spinner.

McDonald has admitted that his team has failed the "examination" in India, adding that he would still change nothing in lead to preparations for the high-octane series.

Australia had opted against playing a tour game in India. They prepared themselves for the much-awaited series by training on spin-friendly pitches in Sydney, and then in an intensive training camp in Bangalore.

After being humbled by India in the Nagpur Test by an innings and 132 runs, Australians looked a better unit in the second and were in fact on top by the end of Day 2. However, things went haywire as soon as Day 3 kicked off.

"I still wouldn't have changed what we did leading in, there's no doubt about that," McDonald said in Delhi on Monday.

"I think they had really good preparation in Bangalore, so there's not any excuses.

"At the end of day two, if you said our preparation was good, you'd probably have a different slant on it, but within an hour then people start to critique what happened in the past.

"I don't think that had a great bearing on what happened in that hour, we were prepared for that, and day three, as well as we could have been and we failed the examination of India."

Former Test captains including Allan Border, Ian Chappell and Michael Clarke have slammed Australia's approach and tactics on spinning Indian tracks. Instead of playing the classic defensive style of Test cricket, Australia heavily relied on the sweep and reverse-sweep.

Post the match, Jadeja asserted that playing sweep against him at the Arun Jaitley Stadium was not wise from the Australians.

"Our methods are going to be critiqued, and rightfully so," McDonald said.

"There were some people who went clearly away from the game plan that made them successful over a period of time and that's for us to own as a collective.

"We've got to be better than that, that's the bottom line, we've got to own it and we are not here to shy away from the fact that wasn't good enough."

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