Historic Victory by India on Australia!
After a gap of 29 years, India produced an emphatic win over Australia. A series victory with 2-0 in a four test match series against Aussies was no where assumed by any cricket Pundit in recent time.
The series would always be remembered as the last series for Ganguly and Kumble, the two great players of famous fab 5 of India. Though Saurav Ganguly has already announced the retirement before the beginning of the series, while Jumbo announced it immediately in between the Delhi test.
I would blame the media for creating huge pressure on these giants, and I guess the new target of media is Rahul Dravid. Any way the victory at Nagpur was really historic and this brought India to the no. 2 position after Aussies in Test Cricket. India is now only 13 points behind the Aussies. So the era of the downfall of Aussies and the kingdom of Indian team is coming ahead.
Saurav Ganguly too believes that future of Indian cricket is much safe in the hands of Dhoni. Ganguly see himself in Dhoni. This series would always be remembered for some of the poor desicions taken by Aussies side. Ponting made the mistake of using part time bowlers instead of there regular bowlers twice in the series and in both the matches they lost.
Some of the tactics of Dhoni was too good and brought Aussies to a surprise. Placing a 8-1 and 7-2 field placement against them and then allowing the bowlers to bowl on the off stump was a nice desicion by Dhoni. Both the pace batteries of Team India Zaheer and Ishant used the new ball brilliantly in the series, while the pace battery of Aussies are not so much effective as they were.
Opening batting pair too provided a difference between the two team. Initially Sehwag with Gambhir and then Sehwag with Murali Vijay was a successful pair. On the other hand Mathew Hayden struggled through out the series specially against Zaheer. He did well only in the last match. Katich was a hit, but he never got the support.
Middle order batsmen too did well for India, as Sachin, Ganguly, Laxman and Dhoni all did well at the crucial moments. On the other hand Aussies skipper Ponting did well in the first match only and then he too was a fuss. Other batsman of Aussies too did not some thing spectacular.
Spin department was something which was already better with Team India. Though skipper Kumble was struggling with the fitness in the first test, then he was replaced by Amit Mishra and he was a hit on his debut match only. In the last match too Bhajji and Mishra brought victory to the Indian way. Bhajji has now a days converted into a match winner and he is the senior most spinner now. On the other hand Aussies struggled through out the series with their spin department. It was only Krejza who did well in the last match, but his performance during the practice matches were not up to the mark and that is why he faced the ignorance by the team management.
Any ways, people are assuming now that the dominance of Aussies in the cricketing world era is going to end very soon and that too by India only. India which is already a T-20 World Champions, defeated them in the best of three finals of the CB series early this year by 2-0, and now a test series victory by 2-0.
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