Team India suffered a nine-wicket defeat at the hands of Australia in the third Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test at Holkar Stadium in Indore on Friday (March 3).

On a pitch that offered sharp turn, the hosts were bowled out for 109 and 163 across the two innings and eventually lost the match by nine wickets in two days and a session.

After the game, former cricketer-turned-commentator Aakash Chopra opined that India’s game against spin has become extremely bad.

"The play against spin has become extremely bad. If our performance against spin is going to be like this, our situation is going to be bad. One thing is certain that if the opposition team is not able to play spin, we also don't play spin well,” said Chopra while speaking on his Youtube channel.

"If we start from 2021, if we talk about the story of the last three years, you will find that we have been extremely ordinary. Everyone's average versus spin has come down to less than half,” he added.

According to Aakash Chopra, India play too much white-ball cricket on flat pitches and that’s why they are struggling against spin.

"Why are we not playing spin well? Because we play so much T20 and ODI cricket, we play on such flat pitches. On the same pitch, the openers had a 225-run partnership,” Chopra opined.

"We are scoring double-hundreds in ODIs and centuries in T20Is, we play daily in those conditions. So the batting becomes slightly difficult when the ball starts turning and staying low and we are not used to that difficulty,” he further remarked.

India still lead the four-match series 2-1 with one Test to go in Ahmedabad, which the hosts will need to win to reach the World Test Championship (WTC) final.

The fourth Test is slated to get underway on March 9.