***Official*** Australia in India 2017

[Burgey]

Joke btw, *****

 

[duffer]

What a great home season though lads. Gonna miss Test cricket for a while now.

 

[burr]

Well done India. Too much skill and incredible fight. That grit to crawl your way back into contents and then burst into the front through dominating sessions was truly something to behold.

This series has been mentally and physically exhausting, I'm shot. Can only imagine how the players feel. I need a minnow at home to bully (me and Warner both) but instead we have the Ashes. Oh well, 8-9 months to recover.

 

[duffer]

A million dollars? Now that is a cheque!

 

[Contra]

Couldn't be more proud. Not just this series but the season as a whole. Every player stepping up in their own way at some point or another, new guys coming in and doing well (Jayant, Kuldeep, Nair (for one match)). Bhuvi contributing despite playing only the odd game. A whole bunch of new venues which even India had little clue as to how they'd play. Winning matches on bouncy pitches (here and Kolkota). Winning this series despite Kohli not contributing with the bat (it's actually kind of ridiculous that we won without him haha).

I just don't know what else to say other than the fact that this Indian team has made every night that I've stayed up watching the whole days play worth watching.

 

[Burgey]

Well done India. Too much skill and incredible fight. That grit to crawl your way back into contents and then burst into the front through dominating sessions was truly something to behold.

This series has been mentally and physically exhausting, I'm shot. Can only imagine how the players feel. I need a minnow at home to bully (me and Warner both) but instead we have the Ashes. Oh well, 8-9 months to recover.

Nov 2018-Jan 2019

India tour of Australia 2018-19 Matches: 4 Test Venue: Australia

 

[Shri]

Hope we learn from Australia here. We should go to Ireland for a test series or a few warm up games before every England tour.

 

[Shri]

Nov 2018-Jan 2019

India tour of Australia 2018-19 Matches: 4 Test Venue: Australia

Hope I get to see Kuldeep, Ash or Jaddu spinning us to victory at the SCG.

 

[Burgey]

Yeah most sides should do it, it's just you don't always have the time with the way the program is.

If you look at the old tour itineraries on Cricinfo, even as late as the 90s an Ashes tour went basically from May to mid-late August and there were often two FC games between tests. It just doesn't happen any more.

 

[OverratedSanity]

There's potential in this team to give Australia a tough time in their own conditions if this test is any evidence. But then again, lack of potential has never been India's problem overseas. Really hope we prepare and compete there as well as Australia have done here.

 

[BigCaine]

In football I am fairly sure this mostly happens only if the player's English isn't good enough for them to do a decent interview, which is the case in cricket too.

You are confusing club football with International Football, while representing their nations against any team most teams speak in native language rather than english.

 

[Burgey]

Hope I get to see Kuldeep, Ash or Jaddu spinning us to victory at the SCG.

Well, you won't be watching from the Members. Had your chance.

 

[anil1405]

Hope I get to see Kuldeep, Ash or Jaddu spinning us to victory at the SCG.

Why? The thought of Indian pacers bouncing out Aussie batsman in Brisbane doesn't excite you anymore?

 

[Burgey]

There's potential in this team to give Australia a tough time in their own conditions if this test is any evidence. But then again, lack of potential has never been India's problem overseas. Really hope we prepare and compete there as well as Australia have done here.

Australia will hopefully deny India a lengthy build up in Australia and make them travel somewhere like SA to get the practice in.

 

[vcs]

Must be disappointing for Australia how they farted away the advantage yesterday. All throughout the series you felt they had the opportunity to finish India off but couldn't do it. Especially in the second test in that Pujara-Rahane partnership and yesterday. Great series, just had a poor conclusion.

Smith WAFG though. Best I've seen a foreign batsman bat in India.

Don't forget Amla in 2010

Smith was fantastic and probably deserved MoTS, as brilliant as Jadeja was.

To come here and carry an inexperienced batting lineup single-handedly against a top class attack in alien conditions should have probably tipped it in his favour.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Don't forget Amla in 2010

Smith was fantastic and probably deserved MoTS, as brilliant as Jadeja was.

To come here and carry an inexperienced batting lineup single-handedly against a top class attack in alien conditions should have probably tipped it in his favour.

Amla was great but I think Smith has faced the much tougher conditions here and had precious little support for the most part.

 

[quincywagstaff]

So many sub plots. You have the story of how Steve Smith came here extremely determined to conquer the 'Final Frontier',

Great post, but I don't think Oz can really see India as a 'Final Frontier' when they've actually won there more recently than they have in England.

 

[Burgey]

Winning on the SC always seems to be "the final frontier" when anyone refers to cricket, despite no SC team ever having won a series in Australia.

 

[OverratedSanity]

that flat line on ultra edge also representing india's final dying chances to win this series

Seriously tho. Thanks.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Winning on the SC always seems to be "the final frontier" when anyone refers to cricket, despite no SC team ever having won a series in Australia.

It's because there are other countries apart from Australia where subcontinent teams have precisely 0 series wins.