Would India have Won test series in Australia had smith n warner played ??

[Real McCoy]

13 minutes ago, raki05 said:

Well smith alone destroyed eng on english pitches. If people think Brandu  and his banar sena could have won in presence of smith and warner lets wait for next test series in aus.

Why wait that long. They will completely pwn us at home. Check Smith's last tour here. India struggled to dismiss him both at home and away. Compare that to Rat's average against Aus in India. It was in single digits. If Rat played in the last test, we would have lost the series. Thank god for Rahane and his excellent captaincy working with Kumble in the background. Rat has battlwala in the background. You heard it here first. They will beat us in India after 2004 if rat-bewda combo continues to operate

[Vijy]

7 hours ago, Real McCoy said:

Why wait that long. They will completely pwn us at home. Check Smith's last tour here. India struggled to dismiss him both at home and away. Compare that to Rat's average against Aus in India. It was in single digits. If Rat played in the last test, we would have lost the series. Thank god for Rahane and his excellent captaincy working with Kumble in the background. Rat has battlwala in the background. You heard it here first. They will beat us in India after 2004 if rat-bewda combo continues to operate

yes, there's a good chance. our best hope is to avoid preparing direct turners since smith is better than any of our batsmen against big turn except chepu. the idea should be to have pitches with just enough purchase for ash-jaddu-kuldeep but not much more. a lot will also depend on how ind handle the Lion.

[nevada]

Hell yeah!

Us winning the series deciding 4th test with a depelted side is the equivalent of Australia winning against us at Kolkata without Smith, Lyon, Starc, Cummins and Hazelwood. 

[IndianRenegade]

This thread is golden!

[sage]

Would India have Won test series in Australia had kohli played ??

[Ankit_sharma03]

On 8/5/2019 at 11:25 PM, Ankit_sharma03 said:

who else wud have been the captain ??

Pujara- before that tour he himself was under many question in regds to overseas

Ashwin- struggling with fitness n inconsistencies overseas

Rahane- has been going through terrible form in last 2 yrs 

 

Glad these 2 worked out and proved me wrong

[Bigg Brother]

On 8/5/2019 at 9:03 PM, Bigg Brother said:

It's obvious. Australia would have smashed us to the floor with Smith and Warner but still credit to our batters that they battled well against their bowlers.

At least I had given credit to our batters

[Lone Wolf]

People don't realise how Close was that Adelaide Game in 2018..  If Smith & Warner were there we'd have lost that game for sure. 

This series a lot of things have clicked for us..  Rahane's bold calls have been amazing..  Just like his inclusion of Kuldeep in Dharamsala test in 2017. 

Ashwin was amazing & he was looking the Best spinner in the IPl even..  Out smarting everyone.  That was ATG level stuff from Ash this series 

[bowl_out]

With Smith and Warner and without 8 of our starting 11... Hell yeah!!

[Majestic]

On 8/5/2019 at 8:52 PM, Nikola said:

I think we are touring Aus again for 4 match series next year and that should tell us everything.

Yeah Ofcourse. Give him "Great Post".

[Soldier]

We would have won in 2018 even if Smith Warner played. Because Kohli doesn't lose games when he wins tosses in red ball cricket. 

 

Also we dint have our best openers then. We are actually stronger now with batting whilst bowling peaked in 2018.

 

I think 2018 if Mayank in the form he had been played from the beginning of the series along with say Gill or Shaw who was in form too at the time, India would have won that year regardless whether Smith played or not.