Australia vs India 2018: We Fought Really Hard and Never Gave Up - Tim Paine

It was a scintillating Test match in Adelaide. Both the sides fought hard to yield success for their team but eventually, India emerged out better on the final day. Despite losing the game, the Australia skipper, Tim Paine is quite happy for the fight shown by his team right through the game. Further, Tim Paine quoted the Australians have played the game in the right spirts. However, he doesn’t want to comment on India’s style of play, but he was happy enough with his side playing the gentleman game in the right way.

We have some areas to tighten up – Tim Paine

“We played in good spirits. I don’t know about the Indians, we didn’t pay attention to them and we won’t be for the whole series,” he said Monday. “We can only concentrate on the brand and the style of cricket that we want to play. From a cricket point of view, we have some areas to tighten up and I thought today was a nice snapshot of how we want to go about it.”

“We fought really hard and never gave up, and you don’t have to talk rubbish and carry on a like a pork chop to prove that,” Tim Paine added.

Our bowling attack is showing great commitment – Tim Paine

Further, Paine added his bowling department is doing a great job for the team. The wicket-keeper batsman also lauded the batting skills of his lower-order batsmen, who have been exceptional against Indian bowling attack.

“Our whole bowling attack, your see those four together and you can see how much it means to them playing for Australia, whether they’ve got the bat, ball or in the field,” he said. “You can’t question their commitment. They have a red hot crack every single ball. That’s what we’re building to, that’s the style of cricket we want to play.”

Well, it would be interesting to see how the Australians would approach the game in the upcoming Test in Perth. The second Test is scheduled to play on December 14th.