That's why I think folks are misreading this NZ series victory. You had already had India repeatedly lose on lottery pitches so this lost isn't that surprising. The only exception in this series was that overcast 1st morning, otherwise India bossed the rest of that 1st test.
There really is no such pie my dear. And you really are comparing it with a post beginning Bangladesh winning in Pakistan with "though it was a weakened Pakistan team"???
The only difference is the same apply to most teams around now. Australia, England, New Zealand, South Africa all are in a transition period and no one is particularly very strong.
Not really bowling wise. Bumrah is in his prime. Ashwin and Jadeja were still going strong until this series.
He can choose to see the positive side of Pakistan coming back up as a test match side, the emergence of Shakeel, Jamal, Salman and the continuity they finally have with Shan as captain. I am not convinced by the rest of their players but at least they now have a formula to win the home tests and with their pace attack, they will always be competitive away. They have a very real chance to be a force in the 2027 WTC but no, he gotta diss and cuss, sorry discuss, an amazing Indian side and an ATG record coz...........
He varies his release points a lot and also has all those different grips. Guess doing the journey as a T20 bowler across franchises does prepare you for eventualities such as this.
Weakened as in it's not like this Pak team is comparable to Pak teams of old given recent form, my friend. But I was trying to praise the Bangladesh victory.
I'm not sure why you never believed me, but I told you I lost most interest in Pak cricket long ago since they adopted this defensive brand of cricket that I can't get behind.
Aus lost that series in 2001 by virtue of having the greatest innings, greatest partnership and spin greatest bowling match performance in the same test against them. It was a freak loss that changed that series towards India.
And we ofcourse weren't missing much! Just the second greatest batsman of all time....."fairly comfortably" literally one ATG tailender nightwatchman partnership and a day of rain away from a draw. And got bowled out for 93 chasing 107. But sure....
Yeah their two wins were comfortable. And the second test was 50/50 we will never know how the final day would have gone."fairly comfortably" literally one ATG tailender nightwatchman partnership and a day of rain away from a draw. And got bowled out for 93 chasing 107. But sure....
I love Sachin but he was in lean form in that period let's not make a big deal of him missing a couple of games. They neutralised Dravid and Laxman who were the biggest threats.
He was such a small deal they had to call him mid series out of tennis elbow. Frankly, given India's bowling attack back then, I find this comparison pretty insulting.
Dude you know Mumbai was a substandard wicket with a result in 2.5 days, which is why CA complained about it to the ICC
India just made 250 batting at Mumbai before Aus were bowled out for sub-100, but sure, pitch doctoring.
And yeah, chennai test was 50-50 that is why McGrath was smashed all through the test.
I think we agree. Australia had Indias back to the wall at that point.
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