India A to play two four-day games against Aus A in lead-up to Border-Gavaskar series
The two matches will take place at Great Barrier Reef Arena in Mackay from October 31-November 3 followed by the MCG from November 7 to 10.
The two matches will take place at Great Barrier Reef Arena in Mackay from October 31-November 3 followed by the MCG from November 7 to 10.
India head coach Rahul Dravid presented a special memento to Ashwin on the occasion of his 100th Test match
Stuart Broad's illustrious career has seen him become one of the two fast bowlers with over 600 wickets in Test cricket
Throughout his unbeaten innings, Kohli expressed dissatisfaction with the bowling action of West Indies captain Kraigg Brathwaite.
The Australians drubbed India by nine wickets in the third test match at the Holkar stadium at Indore on Friday.
The Indians could, however, claim psychological advantage as they definitely would have fancied their chances
Which implied India’s own frailties in the briefest Test held in this land and even though some experts had already said that Motera wasn’t quite as blatantly spin-friendly as Chepauk during the second Test, the hosts’ guiding philosophy, once the first Test had been lost, was that no matter how they batted on designer tracks themselves, the visitors would do worse. India got it right too.
And India confront a new reality in that, as the global reaction to England’s victory in the first Test drove home, they are the team to have a go at in the wake of the stunning series triumph they pulled off down under. The current contests had initially been previewed in terms of their centrality to the World Test Championship table equations ~ they are important enough still ~ but India’s defeat in the first Test bunged in sub-plots aplenty.
In other words, if every team member did everything well, there would be 32 roles performed. And the day may not be far when enterprising teams would go beyond the 32 roles, when some bowlers would be able to bowl with both arms
Vihari confessed that the was not able to sleep properly after Day 1 of the Test match as he was thinking about how to convert his start into a big total.
