Question about the legendary 2001 Ind-Aus series

[Real McCoy]

13 hours ago, Gollum said:

Thank God for clampdown on chucking. 2001 series, most of SL's famous wins, Pak-Eng 2012 series (UAE) will always have * attached to them....

 

Cricket is a much fairer sport now. No chucking, neutral umps+DRS, reduced instances of ball/pitch tampering, multiple cameras, steep costs for fixing yada yada. 

2001 series was mostly fair. Harbahjan didn't bowl doosras back then. He stuck to the one that doesnt spin mainly the arm ball. He also used the outswinger quicker one that Ashwin uses time and again. He learnt the doosra from Saqlain which ended their careers before their time because doosra or any variation is a double edged sword. If you fall in love with them and overuse them, you would lose rhythm. Players like Mcgrath/Warne didnt use their variations often and relied on consistency and thats their reason for success.

[Gollum]

9 hours ago, Scarface said:

"Almost" full strength Aussie side - Brett Lee was out injured and Kasprowicz/Miller were the 4th bowling options.

This is one of the reasons Butcher's 173 can be rated highly as it came against full strength Aussie attack - McGrath & Warne (both 30+ wickets in that series) + Gillespie & Lee - all close to their peak & in good form. But it hardly gets mentioned when talking about great knocks.

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Kasprowicz>Lee when it comes to tests in Asia. He won them the 1998 Bangalore test and did well against SL in their backyard earlier that year in 2004. 

Edited August 7, 2020 by Gollum

[Sandeep99]

I guess Kumble not playing may have paved the path for Harbhajan and rest is history.