5 reasons why teams are failing to win overseas Test series

Batsmen with poor technique

Poor

technique has become a perennial issue for

team

in foreign conditions

Nowadays, batsmen are used to playing on placid wickets, which has no lateral movement or turn off the surface. This results in them scoring a plethora of runs, but their batting techniques still remain flawed. Once they are put under the acid test of swing & seam, pace & bounce and turn & bounce, they get brutally exposed.

As Ian Chappel, once famously wrote in one of his columns, Test matches are not really a platform to hone your batting skills. A batsman who graduates from First class cricket to Test cricket should have the aptitude of handling different conditions. Even though inexperience and lack of local knowledge can be a factor, there is no excuse for a batsman who fishes at deliveries outside off-stump or plays inside the line of the ball. Similarly getting beaten on the inside edge will playing spin, bringing LBW into play shows equal amount of ineptitude.

Whether it is the non-sub-continent teams struggle in Asian conditions or the Asian teams going to SENA (South Africa, England, New Zealand and Australia) countries and put on a trial of swing, seam, pace and bounce, we have seen it all. But batsmen like Virat Kohli and Steve Smith in the modern era have been successful in all conditions, because of adaptability and a great understanding about their own games.

A batsman with a good technique is someone who has the right fundamentals and awareness about his game. If batsmen go through the grind in First class cricket against quality bowlers on lively pitches, they'll end up up-skilling themselves which will help them and their team when they set out on an expedition to conquer international climes.