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Absolutely no stress: Cummins backs Australian batsmen to find form in last two Tests against India Fast bowler Pat Cummins reckons Australia’s ‘champion’ batsmen like Steve Smith will rediscover their touch in the remaining two Tests against India. Australia celebrate a wicket at MCG | AFP Australian fast bowler Pat Cummins said he had “every confidence” Australia’s top batsmen would return to form following an underwhelming first two Tests against India. With the series level at 1-1 heading into the third Test in Sydney, Cummins parried talk of crisis and said...

In India’s Boxing Day Test win, Mohammed Siraj landed quite a few punches of his own On his Test debut, the 26-year-old fast bowler played a significant role in one of India’s greatest victories. Updated Dec 30, 2020 · 01:25 pm India fast bowler Mohammed Siraj during a training session in Australia | AFP / Brenton Edwards In April 2017, a couple of months after Sunrisers Hyderabad shelled out a whopping Rs 2.6 crore for his services, which was 13 times his base price of Rs 20 lakh, Mohammed Siraj had Two of the three things he said were: Mitchell Starc is hi...

A win to remember, a win to cherish: Reactions to India’s stunning victory over Australia at the MCG Ajinkya Rahane led from the front as India put their loss at Adelaide behind them in some style. Updated Dec 29, 2020 · 02:30 pm AFP India, after suffering an eight-wicket defeat in the first Test in Adelaide, bounced back in style to hand an eight-wicket defeat to Australia in the second Test, which ended at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Tuesday. Fittingly, captain Ajinkya Rahane was the one to hit the winning runs at the MCG. With India down in the dumps after the hammerin...

analysis David Warner's return won't completely fix Australia's batting issues after MCG Test, but they do need him back TueTuesday 29 updated TueTuesday 29 DecDecember 2020 at 10:18am Australia's top six won't look like this when the third Test starts on January 7. ( Print text only Cancel Before play on day four of the Melbourne Test, Justin Langer was asked to assess the performance of Australia's opening batsmen in this series. "It hasn't been great," the Australian coach replied. It was an understatement to rank with Ajinkya Rahane's comment that India had merely put in a few bad session...

Mohammed Siraj in action during the warm-up match in Sydney (BCCI / Twitter) And then there was Shubman Gill. There is a school of thought that the end of 2020 is already too late for a player of his calibre to make his Test debut. He could have played in New Zealand earlier this year, but the management waited to draft him in despite his stellar domestic record. Despite evident good form in the build-up to this series, Prithvi Shaw was preferred in Adelaide as the incumbent opener. But, when the chance did come his way, Gill responded with two impressive knocks, even riding the beginner’s ...