Former Indian cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar believes that the Indian team has lost the current Border-Gavaskar Trophy third Test in Australia as they are also hungry for their potential in the series. It should be noted that the Indian team hosts the visitors in the first two tests of the four-match series. Rohit Sharma's team managed to win the first match by an innings and 132 runs in Nagpur before registering a six-wicket victory in New Delhi. However, Australia bounced back in the third match and beat India by nine runs in Indore.

"I got the impression that India was carrying the hangover of the dominance that they had in the series so far. They won the toss and batted first for the first time," said Sanjay Manjrekar on Star Sports.

In the first two matches, Australian pacer Pat Cummins won the toss and chose to bat first. Rohit Sharma's luck saw a change in three games when the tossed coin fell into his favour. The Indian skipper decided to bat first against Australia, who were captained by Steve Smith in the absence of Cummins.

Manjrekar felt that India did not plan their first innings well and it cost them the match.

"So right away it's up to them to play the game and the game and I think they're trying to dominate a little bit and not throw. A lot of offensive shots think they know the ground and that's where I think that India has failed.” he added.

India were bundled out for 109 runs in their first innings before Australia scored 197 runs and took 88 runs in the first innings. In their second innings, the visitors were bowled out for 163 runs. Smith's well-led team chased down the target with 9 wickets.