A lot has been said about the recent performance of the Australian Cricket Team in India. I think this is pure over-reaction considering how young and in-experienced this present Aussie team is!!
It is not easy for a Team to recover from the recent retirement of "Once in a Generation" players such as Ricky Ponting and Michael Hussey. Also, let's not forget that this same Australian team had decimated W.Indies and Sri Lanka in Australia just a few weeks/months ago!! Granted, both W.Indies and Sri Lanka do not travel well but a White Wash is a White Wash and that too 2 in a row within a few weeks of each other is not easy to achieve even in friendly conditions!!
A Team cannot become Sub-standard or Fantastic in just a few weeks or months. It takes years and years of hard work for a Good and World Class Team to be formed. Just ask the S.Africans and they will confirm this!!
Despite being down 0-3 against India, the performance of this Australian Team is much better than our Indian team which had toured them last year. While not once could our Famed Batting Line-up (which included Stalwarts such as Sachin, Dravid and Laxman) cross the 300 run mark in any one single innings, this most in-experienced Australian Batting line-up has done the same twice (once in
Chennai and once in Mohali).
Also, their bowlers have performed remarkably well on spinner friendly wickets compared to our bowlers who were taken to cleaners in almost every innings in Australia. Granted that our Bowling attack was the youngest and most in-experienced to have toured Australia. But then so is this current Australian Batting and Bowling line-up.
It is amazing how the media and ex-players (who had themselves played a great deal of cricket for their respective countires) could really thrash a team this much. They should know better as they have been in such tours and such situations a lot of times.
While it is true that India is nor was the worst team ever to tour England & Australia, neither it is or will become a Great Team just because it got the better of this Australian team in India. Winning on spinner friendly wickets is not a solution to becoming a World Beating Team!! Also, the loss to England in our own Den should really hurt us 'Bad'.
Losing to them in their conditions is one thing but being beaten in our conditions should be a bitter pill to swallow. And this both BCCI And the Indian team would do well to acknowledge/recognise despite defeating this weak Australian Team.
Similarly, Australia has to learn how to play on turning tracks much like our Indian team needs to learn to play on fast bouncing tracks both in and out of India. Only then, can it re-claim its Numero Uno position in Test Cricket.
Both the Media and Fans would do well not to write-off any team based on one or two series' performances. It would be prudent to judge a Team purely on consistency of its long-term performance rather than its one-off/short-term performances. Otherwise, we run the risk of analysing this 'Great Game' just like we tend to do analyse the Stock Markets i.e. on a daily basis rather than on a long-term basis.
Cheers
It is not easy for a Team to recover from the recent retirement of "Once in a Generation" players such as Ricky Ponting and Michael Hussey. Also, let's not forget that this same Australian team had decimated W.Indies and Sri Lanka in Australia just a few weeks/months ago!! Granted, both W.Indies and Sri Lanka do not travel well but a White Wash is a White Wash and that too 2 in a row within a few weeks of each other is not easy to achieve even in friendly conditions!!
A Team cannot become Sub-standard or Fantastic in just a few weeks or months. It takes years and years of hard work for a Good and World Class Team to be formed. Just ask the S.Africans and they will confirm this!!
Despite being down 0-3 against India, the performance of this Australian Team is much better than our Indian team which had toured them last year. While not once could our Famed Batting Line-up (which included Stalwarts such as Sachin, Dravid and Laxman) cross the 300 run mark in any one single innings, this most in-experienced Australian Batting line-up has done the same twice (once in
Chennai and once in Mohali).
Also, their bowlers have performed remarkably well on spinner friendly wickets compared to our bowlers who were taken to cleaners in almost every innings in Australia. Granted that our Bowling attack was the youngest and most in-experienced to have toured Australia. But then so is this current Australian Batting and Bowling line-up.
It is amazing how the media and ex-players (who had themselves played a great deal of cricket for their respective countires) could really thrash a team this much. They should know better as they have been in such tours and such situations a lot of times.
While it is true that India is nor was the worst team ever to tour England & Australia, neither it is or will become a Great Team just because it got the better of this Australian team in India. Winning on spinner friendly wickets is not a solution to becoming a World Beating Team!! Also, the loss to England in our own Den should really hurt us 'Bad'.
Losing to them in their conditions is one thing but being beaten in our conditions should be a bitter pill to swallow. And this both BCCI And the Indian team would do well to acknowledge/recognise despite defeating this weak Australian Team.
Similarly, Australia has to learn how to play on turning tracks much like our Indian team needs to learn to play on fast bouncing tracks both in and out of India. Only then, can it re-claim its Numero Uno position in Test Cricket.
Both the Media and Fans would do well not to write-off any team based on one or two series' performances. It would be prudent to judge a Team purely on consistency of its long-term performance rather than its one-off/short-term performances. Otherwise, we run the risk of analysing this 'Great Game' just like we tend to do analyse the Stock Markets i.e. on a daily basis rather than on a long-term basis.
Cheers
