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    Best team since Waugh/ Ponting’s Australia?

    If Kohli is still captain, that would likely happen.
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    Best team since Waugh/ Ponting’s Australia?

    Wow, conveniently ignore the number of injuries India was carrying in the Eng series (missing 4 first choice bowlers in the 1st test) and then complain about WI missing players in the very next post. India lost to NZ once (the ATG NZ side, much better than the one 80's WI lost and drew with) and...
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    Best team since Waugh/ Ponting’s Australia?

    India will comfortably smash the Aussies (lost to SS Das & co in '01 haha). Peak WI will be competitive with those 4 fast bowlers, even with India at its peak. Helmets will probably reduce some of their competitiveness probably though. As will Umesh and Shami bringing the fire back in the WI...
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    Best team since Waugh/ Ponting’s Australia?

    Playing against Kohli's India at its home must evoque a similar sense of dread for other teams as did playing against the Aus/WI teams (H or A). The entire country is a fortress. They have the aura of invincibility that only the greatest of team has been able to conjure. People already abandon...
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    The Great Indian Middle Order Crisis Thread

    If Pujara and Rahane are to be ditched for good, then they shouldn't be replaced by hacks like Iyer and Vihari, but with Gill and Shaw. The younglings aren't perfect but atleast they are not sitting ducks against pace bowling.
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    Best team since Waugh/ Ponting’s Australia?

    Where would New Zealand fit in this debate. Especially after their upcoming home series loss to Bangladesh. Surely that cancels their 'WTC finals' win.
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    Best team since Waugh/ Ponting’s Australia?

    Seriously https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/grammar-spell-checker-—-l/oldceeleldhonbafppcapldpdifcinji
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    Best team since Waugh/ Ponting’s Australia?

    Ashwin and Jadeja maybe, but not the pacers. His body wasn't built for bowling at 135-140k. And Kohli still bowled him as if he was bowling 125-130k's.
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    Best team since Waugh/ Ponting’s Australia?

    They are about even. 2021 side has the fortune of Shardul Thakur's mystery pies, but they also faced a much weaker Curran-less side. Also Bumrah wasn't injured in the first 2 matches.
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    Best team since Waugh/ Ponting’s Australia?

    Its absolutely hilarious how 'current' India is being compared to peak Australia / Windies with every player in their peakiest form but India can only play with 30 averaging middle order players.
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    Best team since Waugh/ Ponting’s Australia?

    Bumrah of 2018 is >= current post-injury Bumrah. Ishant of 2018 >> Ishant of 2021 / Siraj at any point in his life. Shami = Shami Hardik < Shardul Ashwin / Jadeja = Ashwin / Jadeja Even if you could somehow argue that India's bowling line-up is better now, its not massively so, so as to make...
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    Best team since Waugh/ Ponting’s Australia?

    Pune Day 1 and 2 - 508/24 Chennai Day 3 and Day 4 - 577/23 Everyone look, Spark here thinks that Pune 2017 was a flat pitch.
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    Best team since Waugh/ Ponting’s Australia?

    Bumrah was a beast when Kohli and Pujara had their monster away series. Ishant matched him in average and Shami wasn't far behind. Ashwin was good in the only Aus match that he played as was Jadeja. Kuldeep too was actually useful and relevant. So it is entirely false to claim that our strong...
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    Best team since Waugh/ Ponting’s Australia?

    And if you think conditions where 23 wickets fell in two days of cricket (the actually relevant days) are flat conditions, Pune 2017 was a flat pitch.
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    Best team since Waugh/ Ponting’s Australia?

    Umm... Indian bowling was fine before the batsman **** the bed.
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    Best team since Waugh/ Ponting’s Australia?

    In the Chennai test - 3 wickets fell on Day 1 5 wickets fell on Day 2 8 wickets fell on Day 3 15 wickets fell on Day 4 9 wickets fell in 40 overs of Day 5. India began their innings 5 overs into Day 3. These were not flat conditions by any means.
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    Best team since Waugh/ Ponting’s Australia?

    There's no need to get hung up on one posters comment about the 'current' Indian team whose 'current' records will conveniently only be extended to the period where they can be shown to be poor. The OP asked the question about Kohli's India. Kohli's India has been the most dominant home side...
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    Best team since Waugh/ Ponting’s Australia?

    No. Flat conditions will only neutralize Indian bowlers who are so conditions dependent (just look at their poor record in home tests), but Indian batting is fully defined by their 30 averaging middle order bats (nvm that India beat a full strength Australia with those three batsman averaging in...
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    Best team since Waugh/ Ponting’s Australia?

    Indian bowling line-up is several levels above SA's. South Africa have one good (great!) bowler to compete with India in Indian conditions. He might have won them a match of his own bowling in the past but that team didn't have to fear getting blown away by Indian bowlers in return. That...
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    ***Official*** India in South Africa 2021-22

    It should be the man who had the 3rd best average for Australia last summer(twice Head's) and was the Man of the Match in the only match Australia won. Think how much more winning you could do with him in the team.

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