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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 needed to chase down 325 plus runs on the final day of a Test Match, in the 4th innings, at a ground ...

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 Australia's shock test series defeat against depleted India has led to doomsday predictions for a team which ruled the cricket world not too long ago. India's 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 widespread praise for India in the Australian media and among the fans, along with some despair over Austra...

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 Christmas for the first time in 121 days. Then the COVID-19 outbreak in Sydney made that impossible. Poign...

Series tied, so it's 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 Adelaide, India dropped six catches, here Australia dropped seven. The margin is so slight that the whole...