4th Test, Day 5 – Whitewash achieved

Blink and you shall miss, that was what happened to me. It only took 13 overs for Australia to take the remaining four wickets to complete the series whitewash.

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What to do with the Aussie batting lineup

There were very few low lights from the Border-Gavaskar series, one of them was the performance of the top 3. A major part of the problem was the number 3 averaging less than 3.

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A Note On The Indian Batting Legends

The consensus on India’s batting failures runs like this: They are clearly past their prime and need to go, but thanks for the memories. There are vocal minorities that push the harder view — Tendulkar isn’t all that; Laxman needs to be dropped immediately and can’t move his feet; Dravid can’t sight the ball (Ganguly even had the nerve to question his technique, which I found rather surprising). The overall narrative: These are aged players, they are in decline, India needs to be rejuvenated.

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Angry Kohli

From the perspective of the Indian fan, the second session of the third day's play in Adelaide, when India lost only one wicket and that too at the very end, was probably the most satisfying couple of hours in the India-Australia series so far. I certainly enjoyed it. Not very much happened: no blistering strokeplay unleashed, no mountain climbed, no dominance established, just survival and a semblance of grit. That tells you something about how we've had to revise our expectations.

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Border-Gavaskar series – Australian Batting Review

Two series have now past since the 47 all out against South Africa. In that time, Australia played out a drawn series in another silly two matches series and are about to clean sweep India.

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