Congrats India!

[~ Miss Warner ~]

Congratulations to India on a well played and well deserved series win

 

This has been such an interesting series to watch, I went into it with pretty low hopes, but I am very happy with the fight Australia showed, it's nearly an impossible task to win a test series in India but we gave it a good crack.

I'm not gonna lie, apart from Smith and the odd one off innings here and there by Renshaw, Marsh, Maxwell & Handscomb our batting was poor, Smith was obviously sensational but the rest of our batsmen are what cost us the series in the end.

I am very happy with our bowling effort though, they toiled hard and kept India to some totals that not many bowling attacks can manage.

 

But in the end, the Indian team were too good, even with Kohli not performing they managed to win the series, I seen a lot of people bagging Rahane after the 3rd test but honestly I thought his captaincy was sensational in the final match, his management of the bowlers was perfect.

Thanks to the Indian fans on here for the banter over the series, it's been fun!

I think honestly the cricket rivalry between Australia and India is nearing the same level for us Aussie fans as Australia v England, which is great for cricket, Twenty 20 cricket is the flagship of the sport these days but test series' like this one really show that test cricket is still the fundamental top form of cricket, at least for me it does anyway.

Anyways, thank you all for the hospitality, and congratulations to India, well played indeed!

See you all next time we battle   Peace!

[speedheat]

Pleasure miss! You was spot on regarding Aussie collapse,this was a tough series for us ! and yes Aussies have bright future too with quality bowling attack

[Fool]

Yes my congrats as well. Im dissapointed in how we finished up the series. But that is more to do with our shortcomings, poor focus and lack of commitment with the bat.

 

Your mob played seriousley well after that first match and fought your way back to a very well deserved victory.

 

Looking forward to another emotionally charged series in 18 months. This was a cracker of a series and i expect the next one will be too.

[Gollum]

Thanks to the Aussie posters for adding tadka to this well fought series. Seriously this Aussie team has been among the top 5 visiting sides to come to India in the last decade. Much fancier Aussie sides lost here in 2008 and 2010. Congrats to you guys for such a splendid show, you have a very exciting team that can achieve greatness if a few things fall in place. You will be heavy favourites for this year's Ashes, would love to see a 4 pronged pace attack later this year. Just hope we get better pitches in Australia than the patta drop ins of the last few years. 

[BCCI]

Thanks.Your team overachieved I reckon and were really close to retaining the BG trophy.Once again Warner went missing in a series away from home and that was a big jolt for Aus,considering he and Smith were only two established batsmen of your lineup.

[Magneto]

Well played too @ Australia.

 

And the Australian posters who behaved with much more dignity than their cricketing counterparts :-p

[beetle]

Thanks and your team fought well too.

Very intereresting and well fought series.

[Bystander]

Kudos to Aussies for making this series really competitive. Well played and respect was earned. Hope India could fight like this next year in Aussie Land. 

[CoverDrive]

Thanks guys. Best of luck for the Ashes. Always support Australia in Ashes. I was happy that the one loss this season was vs. Aus and not Eng 

[Hercules]

well played India, too good when it came to the crunch.

Thanks for letting me indulge in some forum sledging.

Lucky the bat and ball didn't belong to Kohli or he would have taken them and gone home at the end of the first test lol.

[Fool]

I'm feeling underappreciated here. Miss warner gets 12 upvotes to my two :(

 

Thanks @Miss Warner and @philcric for noticing that i exist too 

[sandeep]

Australia gave us the toughest fight of the season - and did it with a young team, punching above its weight.  Led by a genius freak of a batsman.  

 

Great series.  to Australian team.   

[sandeep]

24 minutes ago, Fool said:

I'm feeling underappreciated here. Miss warner gets 12 upvotes to my two :(

 

Thanks @Miss Warner and @philcric for noticing that i exist too 

Don't you know that "Ladies" will always get more love from sports geeks.  

[Ultimate_Game]

Was one of the best series and I would take such kind of series over the Ind-SA, Ind-NZ or Ind-Eng ones where the opponents simply give up after seeing the pitch or after the toss. Appreciate the Aussie team's spirit and hope they make spicy pitches when India tour Australia 

[MK55]

Great series. Australia was very competitive.

I'm looking forward to the Ashes now with Starc, Cummins and Hazlewood bowling together. 

[Fool]

20 minutes ago, sandeep said:

Don't you know that "Ladies" will always get more love from sports geeks.  

Hahahaha.

 

Yeah well that does make perfect sense.

[philcric]

2 hours ago, Fool said:

I'm feeling underappreciated here. Miss warner gets 12 upvotes to my two :(

 

Thanks @Miss Warner and @philcric for noticing that i exist too 

 

[philcric]

1 hour ago, Ultimate_Game said:

Was one of the best series and I would take such kind of series over the Ind-SA, Ind-NZ or Ind-Eng ones where the opponents simply give up after seeing the pitch or after the toss. Appreciate the Aussie team's spirit and hope they make spicy pitches when India tour Australia 

Scoreline may not suggest it but Ind-Eng series was competitive too. At least in 3 matches Eng got into very good positions, and India had to fight back really well to win or draw those games.

 

But yes this series was extremely close, just half way through the second test Aus almost regained the trophy.

[sandeep]

9 minutes ago, philcric said:

Scoreline may not suggest it but Ind-Eng series was competitive too. At least in 3 matches Eng got into very good positions, and India had to fight back really well to win or draw those games.

 

But yes this series was extremely close, just half way through the second test Aus almost regained the trophy.

Yes, England pushed us hard as well, much harder than 4-0 suggests.   But the aussies were in position to win the series, multiple times.  And you have to admit that they did it with much poorer batting resources.  Bowled much better than the Poms though.  

[rahulrulezz]

The best home series I have seen since that Australian Last Frontier tour back in 2001. Almost 16 years and it says a lot. And the teams from 2001 tour had so many superstars.  

 

Regardless, yes England did win here in 2012 but the young Australian team of 2017 probably played tougher.

 

Kudos and good job Australia!