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Entire India and indeed the entire cricketing world is agog at the incredible tenacity displayed by the Indian Cricket Team during the just concluded India-Australia Test series. The script could not have been more inspiring. From humiliation in the first test match — bundled out for just 36 runs in one innings — to emerging triumphant in the series despite losing the best batsman and bowlers due to injuries and playing the final test match with debutants and rookies. Consider this. India n...

Cricket: Australia media reacts to series defeat to India 19 Jan, 2021 09:20 PM 7 minutes to read India defeats Australia in incredible test win. Video / 7 NZ Herald Australias shock test series defeat against depleted India has led to doomsday predictions for a team which ruled the cricket world not too long ago. Indias fourth test win against all odds in Brisbane, giving them a 2 – 1 series triumph, is being portrayed as a watershed moment in the history of cricket. There has been widesprea...

A record seventh-wicket partnership between a pair of Indian no-names stretched belief - and this series - to the wire.

For some Australian players, life has been a succession of bio-hubs since mid-August, with little or no day leave. They were in one for a one-day series in England, then in the UAE while playing IPL, then in a hub in Sydney for the India series, and/or the Sheffield Shield, and/or the Big Bash League. Their protection has been their prison. Cricketers are finely programmed and tuned, but they are not automatons. Steve Smith had been looking forward to seeing his wife Dani in Melbourne at Christ...

Series tied, so its cheer of the unknown Normal text size Advertisement After Adelaide, we all thought we knew what came next. The moment this Test match ended, we didn’t even know where came next, let alone what. It’s been that sort of year. It’s become that sort of rivalry. When the formalities were done at the MCG, the score after two Tests wasn’t just 1-1, it was Australia 32/679 versus India 32/676. In a contest so even, resolution may come down to cricket’s fine print: in Adelai...

Australian Cricket Hall of Fame chairman Peter King says an "oversight" has finally been corrected, with Indigenous star Johnny Mullagh given the recognition he and his trailblazing team deserves. King revealed on Monday that Mullagh, the best player on the 1868 Aboriginal team that was Australias first to tour England, would be the sports maiden Indigenous inductee when the latest three-person intake is confirmed at the Cricket Australia awards night in February. Cricket Australia/AP This und...