Indian cricket was just emerging out of the dreaded match-fixing scandal when the national team, under Sourav Ganguly, registered one of their biggest ODI wins.
Champions Trophy Nostalgia: Once again, Australia came second best to Tendulkar as India powered into the semis, where they lost to the Caribbeans in 1998.
England will realise that they were undone more by spinners and acknowledge within the group, if not publicly, that Rana for Dube wasn’t as much of a problem.
Whether Kohli scores a century, a double, or even a triple, it hardly raises eyebrows. But the moment he falls cheaply, his ever-growing critics will pounce.
There was a sense of the team being disjointed in Australia with one or two players travelling with their families, independent of the rest of the squad.
Gautam Gambhir has had numerous conversations with the batting group, the repeated implosions suggest that whatever message he is espousing hasn’t hit home.
In an exclusive interview with Hindustan Times, Sunil Gavaskar explained Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma can shrug off their barren run against Australia.
How will the cricket world remember Ashwin? A lion-hearted competitor, to start with. No situation fazed him, he didn’t believe anything was impossible.
Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant will be hoping a repeat of their Gabba heroics three years ago as India aim to resurrect their batting in the third Test.