The Indian fielding in the ongoing series against Australia has been great in patches and woeful in some. In Adelaide, they dropped catches while in Melbourne and Sydney, they varied from excellent to good to decent. In the Brisbane Test, with Ajinkya Rahane’s side plagued by injury issues, India needed some sort of motivation. Playing with two new debutants and missing star players like Jasprit Bumrah, Ravichandran Ashwin and Hanuma Vihari, the odds are stacked against India in the deciding Test in Australia’s fortress of the Gabba. Australia won the toss and chose to bat on a pitch that looked good for batting. The combined experience of the Indian pace attack was just five Tests old and it looked to be an uphill task.
However, India’s spirit rose when Rohit Sharma produced some magical fielding in the very first over. Mohammed Siraj opened the bowling and he got a full delivery to curl back in and then hold its line. David Warner, who had not fully recovered from…