Sometimes, it’s best to have matches played without too much of a break between them. The ICC mandates a minimum of three days between a Test match and if two Test matches are played back to back then there has to be a break of seven days before the next Test match as can be seen between the third Test at Brisbane and the fourth at Melbourne. It is not very clear why there was such a long gap of 10 days between the first Test in Perth and the second in Adelaide. What it has done is that it has given the Australian team a lot of time to assess where they went wrong in a Test match they were expected to breeze through but instead lost by almost 300 runs. The momentum that the India team had at that time has been disturbed and they will have to once again tap into their inner strength like they did at Perth to come out on top in the second Test match. 

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