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*Official* Australia in India 2023

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subshakerz

Hall of Fame Member
Slifer said:
They shellacked South Africa and South Africa were clear cut the second best team in the early 2000s. Also, I clearly remember Australia white washing decent India, Pakistan, poor WI team back to back.

Still, I'll agree this India team ie from 2012 to now has been the most dominant at home.
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India have also comprehensively beaten decent teams. But I haven't seen Australia destroy a no.1 team of such quality as India has done. This is peak home invincibility.
 
GotSpin

GotSpin

Hall of Fame Member
subshakerz said:
India have also comprehensively beaten decent teams. But I haven't seen Australia destroy a no.1 team of such quality as India has done. This is peak home invincibility.
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You seem to be implying that Australia are a strong number one though / they most certainly are not
 
CricAddict

CricAddict

Cricketer Of The Year
GotSpin said:
You seem to be implying that Australia are a strong number one though / they most certainly are not
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I think South Africa was the second best team in late 90s/early 2000s. While Australia won most series against them, the South Africans always pinched a draw or a win in almost every series, unlike any opposition in India right now.
 
Nintendo

Nintendo

Cricketer Of The Year
Slifer said:
The bowling wasn't and isn't the issue. The batting has been. And I clearly remember that during Australia's home series people were talking up Australia's batting and I was like no. Their batting looks good on paper but outside Australia (except for Smith) it's questionable. And even now that Smith is being dominated, we see how truly woeful they can be.
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Marnus has averaged 42 away from home since his recall in 2019 and averaged mid 40's in our last mini tour of asia in 2022, Khawaja averaged 80+ in that mini tour of asia, carey averaged 50 during that same asia stint and green averaged mid 40's. The batting at full strength looked fine away from home coming into this tour.
 
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Ray.

School Boy/Girl Captain
Ray. said:
I really don’t see any Australian batsman scoring much this series except Smith and he too looks at all sea vs Jadeja, and I think pitches would get more spin friendly than this one in upcoming tests. I don’t see the hype around Labus, yeah he top scored for Australia, but he was never comfortable, and had India took the his chance early he wouldn’t have scored that much. The only real threat is Smith.
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Told ya Labus a hack. No one except Smith can score in these tracks. Handscomb was good no doubt, but I doubt even he would score much in remaining test.
 
honestbharani

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
Slifer said:
I respectfully disagree. In no way shape or form are India like RSA of the 90s. India starts off as heavy heavy favorites afaic in all series at home. Away about even vs the so called SENA teams and heavy favorites vs the rest. And all this at a time when their batting has been sucking and Bumrah has been injured. Imagine if the batting was firing on all cylinders and Bumrah was playing consistently.

As for the media, I don't see Indians as condescending vs weaker teams as the English and especially the Australian media.
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You may not see it highlighted that much mate, coz some of them are also in our local languages but ours are just as crap as any media.

I suppose the one saving grace, if you could call it that, is that they are so self centered they often do not even acknowledge the opposition in the articles etc. A very India-centric view is what you get from them, so maybe the opportunities for condescension are lesser coz of that.
 
CricAddict

CricAddict

Cricketer Of The Year
CricAddict said:
I think South Africa was the second best team in late 90s/early 2000s. While Australia won most series against them, the South Africans always pinched a draw or a win in almost every series, unlike any opposition in India right now.
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Still, those aussie teams of 90s and 2000s and the Bradman team and Windies 70s teams were so great both home and away. Not sure if this Indian team is better than those teams at home.
 
Sunil1z

Sunil1z

International Regular
CricAddict said:
I think South Africa was the second best team in late 90s/early 2000s. While Australia won most series against them, the South Africans always pinched a draw or a win in almost every series, unlike any opposition in India right now.
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IMO Teams can certainly earn a draw in India if we give them 2000 roads . About win I amn’t sure.
 
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Arachnodouche

International Captain
Nintendo said:
Marnus has averaged 42 away from home since his recall in 2019 and averaged mid 40's in our last mini tour of asia in 2022, Khawaja averaged 80+ in that mini tour of asia, carey averaged 50 during that same asia stint and green averaged mid 40's. The batting at full strength looked fine away from home coming into this tour.
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You've mentioned the Khawaja-Marnus combine away from home several times but I think you can safely dismiss away exploits elsewhere when it comes to touring India. To succeed here requires an altogether different set of technical and mental skills. The only guy with proven pedigree here is Smith and even he evidently is not the same robot of yesteryear.
 
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