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Was it murder or suicide in Hyderabad: Aus media asks

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Press Trust of India Melbourne
Last Updated : Mar 06 2013 | 4:25 PM IST
"Was it murder or suicide in Hyderabad yesterday?", the Australian media asked today in the wake of their team's humiliating defeat at the hands of India.
The team's capitulation to India's spinners in the second Test was described as "the Hyderabad horror show" on a "dark day" for Australian cricket.
"It was, without doubt, a crime scene and one that Australian cricket fans should not have had to witness. The saddest thing about yesterday's capitulation was that the Australians weren't mugged - this was an act of self-harm," the 'Australian' wrote.
The paper said that none of the batsmen except captain Michael Clarke looked to take the fight into the Indian camp.
"Suicide cults have displayed more resolve than the procession of batsmen who walked to the middle and volunteered to drink the cordial yesterday.
"..The captain owns the two highest scores of this series by an Australian (130 and 91) and posted both of them in the critical first innings when the running needed to be made.

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"Unfortunately his pale warriors don't have the legs to go with their skipper. Some join him for a couple of kilometres here or there, but none can go the distance. Nor do any seem intent on forming a partnership without him."
The critical write-up added that if Clarke wept when Ricky Ponting left the team, he must have felt a "sense of dread when Michael Hussey followed at summer's end".
Another newspaper 'Herald Sun' writes, "THIS is not the crisis Australian cricket was meant to have. Not with the Ashes 16 weeks away. In a dark day for Australian cricket, the Hyderabad horror show was over by lunch on day four.

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First Published: Mar 06 2013 | 4:25 PM IST

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