In the first test, I believe toss was the villain. Had Australia was batting in the fourth innings things would have been different simply bcoz the pitch assisted spinning and it is worse on day four. In the second test, India lost the match when aussies added 250 odd runs in the first innings. The team is atleast going down fighting.
Its not that the young brigade is performing better than the earlier one. The first match was all the way dominated by Australians. The match swung towards the Indian side on the last day only due to Australians' wish to get a result out of it. And as regards to the second match the match was mostly within the grip of Australia except for the last few sessions, when the pitch behaved abnormally.
Indian batting should look more consistent which is not at all there. The batsmen has to really stick on the wicket consolidate then encash the sitauation. They should have the very very khadoos approach to repel any bowling attack like our Sunny the great did during his days.
everybody could notice that the Australians were getting tired after the first hour of play due heat. India lost the second test in the first hour's play on day 2 and also day 4. The batsmen failed to apply themselves to see through the first hour.
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by Venkat Bhat on Dec 21, 2014 07:23 PM
Australia has won the second test match with 4 wickets to spare and within 4 days. And still you claim the result could have gone either ways. Good joke.
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by Sunil Vaidya on Dec 21, 2014 10:20 PM
if you think winning with 4 wickets is a huge margin chasing such a total...then what can i say...i can only call your post as a good joke....
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by Sunil Vaidya on Dec 21, 2014 10:23 PM
the no. of days is not so important...if a match finished in 4 days it does not mean it was not well fought...a match ending in 3 days does not mean it is not well fought or gone either way...remember the mumbai test match when dravid was captain? it ended in only 2 days and a few hours but still that test could also have gone either way even though we won finally...
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by Venkat Bhat on Dec 23, 2014 05:46 PM
If Aussies might have lost 9 wickets and just managed to score the winning run, then perhaps we could have said the match could have gone either way. That's my practical and logical view.
