Morne Morkel: We’re slightly off the mark

Morne Morkel

India bowling coach Morne Morkel on Friday admitted that the team's bowlers struggled with execution and length during the ongoing second Test against Australia, attributing it to their limited experience in pink-ball cricket.

India were struggling at 128 for five in their second innings, still trailing Australia by 29 runs at stumps on Day Two of the day-night Test.

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Reflecting on the bowling performance, Morkel said: "If I can just draw from the first Test, our lines and lengths were exceptional and that was sort of the blueprint going into this Test series, we wanted to bring the stumps into play as much as possible.

"Last night with the ball moving around a bit, we missed that, we were slightly off the mark with that in terms of finding the right sort of length and at times we were touch wide. We allowed the guys to leave a lot of balls...that's where you can pick up your wickets," Morkel said during the post-day press conference. "With the pink ball so far in this match there's always a little something in the wicket. If you're consistent in your area, there was the odd ball that nipped around. At the end of the day it's having the plans and executing them in partnership for long enough," he added.

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