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When they think about Australian side, then see Warne, McGrath, Gilchrist. But scenario has changed. To be comparable with Aussie team of last decade, they have to win the matches. They don't have to get big names like that. They can do what aussies did in their era. Winning against WI, Australia, England, Pakistan, NZ etc.

Aus won away in every country except india.that madse them special .sa have had convincing home wins for years also

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I don't know how the series against SL was struggle. They won 1 match by inning and were better than SL in two matches.

They would not have won for that collapse it was a draw and srilanka draws last 2 tests in eng its a good result for srilanka looking at their away record and team

[rkt.india]

Cricket is not played on paper.england have. Many weakness as other teams .andrew strauus form' date='eon morgan,swann against sub continent teams is not that effective.england have played well but fact.is we were terrible.I do not think eng will win against pak or sl.when they come to sub continent things happen and home advantage is huge factor.[/quote'] Strauss just a had bad series. Morgan is not that good but still he scored 100 against us. and How can you say Swann is not good against SC teams. He troubled Pak and had 6-fer here. England may not have Mcgrath or Warne, but the overall alround structure of their team makes them as good as that team. I would like to ad Australian team actually became the greatest when Hayden and Langer started open the innings and Ponting came at 3. That is why I should say 99 Aussie was not great. They were very good. Great Aussie team came later.

[Trichromatic]

Aus won away in every country except india.that madse them special .sa have had convincing home wins for years also

Teams are not stronger like that at their home now. India has struggled in home series in last few years even though they haven't lost many matches. India had Kumble and Bhajji in their side to win matches at that time. SA's record is better away from home. SL had Murli who was best match-winner for them. Swann is now better than their spinners.

[rkt.india]

Aus won away in every country except india.that madse them special .sa have had convincing home wins for years also

but last 2 matches were rained out most of the time.

[Trichromatic]

They would not have won for that collapse it was a draw and srilanka draws last 2 tests in eng its a good result for srilanka looking at their away record and team

Wow! It was still an inning victory. Can't take anything away from them for winning that match. Two draws? England were ahead in those two matches. But you said it was struggle for England? :hmmm: 350 overs in 2nd test and they needed 7 wickets. 250 overs in 3rd test and SL were 150+ runs ahead with 5 wickets in hand. For this SA team, like I said they have better away record and their home record is pretty average.

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Strauss just a had bad series. Morgan is not that good but still he scored 100 against us. and How can you say Swann is not good against SC teams. He troubled Pak and had 6-fer here. England may not have Mcgrath or Warne' date=' but the overall alround structure of their team makes them as good as that team. I would like to ad Australian team actually became the greatest when Hayden and Langer started open the innings and Ponting came at 3. That is why I should say 99 Aussie was not great. They were very good. Great Aussie team came later.[/quote'] Strauss did not have a bad series by his recent form in last 2 years he had a great series.he has averaged 30 in last 2 years and if you take bangladesh out his average is lower.morgan is not that good and wills truggle against good bowling attacks.swann struggled against sl and ind . If you compare this england team with australia then that means you did not watch cricket in 1990,then teams had great bowling attacks ,slater was opening against wasim,waqar,ambrose,walsh,srinath, and others spinning standard was also good and pitches were lively ,many consider slater to be better than hayden who struggled in that era and not to forget mark waugh and steve waugh ,there brand was different they were attacking over attacking some times .but they had resources .english team is defensive team they had excellent home season let's see them away

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Wow! It was still an inning victory. Can't take anything away from them for winning that match. Two draws? England were ahead in those two matches. But you said it was struggle for England? :hmmm: 350 overs in 2nd test and they needed 7 wickets. 250 overs in 3rd test and SL were 150+ runs ahead with 5 wickets in hand. For this SA team, like I said they have better away record and their home record is pretty average.

They struggled to take 20 wickets of srilanka whose record away is terrible

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Wow! It was still an inning victory. Can't take anything away from them for winning that match. Two draws? England were ahead in those two matches. But you said it was struggle for England? :hmmm: 350 overs in 2nd test and they needed 7 wickets. 250 overs in 3rd test and SL were 150+ runs ahead with 5 wickets in hand. For this SA team, like I said they have better away record and their home record is pretty average.

They struggled to take 20 wickets of srilanka whose record away is terrible

Maximum number of overs to be bowled in a test match is 450. If you want to call it struggle then it's ok.

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Maximum number of overs to be bowled in a test match is 450. If you want to call it struggle then it's ok.

Well they did not look like taking wickets that's what I meant .even if you had full play it would have been draws. srilanka vs england 2nd test- http://www.espncricinfo.com/england-v-sri-lanka-2011/engine/match/474464.html View dismissal AJ Strauss* lbw b Welegedara 4 14 12 1 0 33.33 View dismissal AN Cook c Maharoof b Fernando 96 281 164 15 0 58.53 View dismissal IJL Trott lbw b Lakmal 2 13 9 0 0 22.22 View dismissal KP Pietersen c Dilshan b Lakmal 2 10 8 0 0 25.00 View dismissal IR Bell c Paranavitana b Welegedara 52 148 106 8 0 49.05 View dismissal EJG Morgan lbw b Lakmal 79 167 128 10 2 61.71 View dismissal MJ Prior† b Herath 126 195 131 19 0 96.18 View dismissal SCJ Broad lbw b Welegedara 54 73 51 9 0 105.88 View dismissal GP Swann c Paranavitana b Welegedara 4 3 5 1 0 80.00 CT Tremlett not out 24 68 41 3 0 58.53 View dismissal ST Finn b Herath 19 29 32 4 0 59.37 Extras (b 3, lb 7, w 4, nb 10) 24 Total (all out; 112.5 overs; 509 mins) 486 (4.30 runs per over) Fall of wickets1-5 (Strauss, 2.6 ov), 2-18 (Trott, 5.4 ov), 3-22 (Pietersen, 7.5 ov), 4-130 (Bell, 39.5 ov), 5-201 (Cook, 61.2 ov), 6-302 (Morgan, 81.1 ov), 7-410 (Broad, 96.1 ov), 8-414 (Swann, 96.6 ov), 9-452 (Prior, 104.3 ov), 10-486 (Finn, 112.5 ov) Bowling O M R W Econ View wickets UWMBCA Welegedara 28 4 122 4 4.35 (5nb, 2w) View wickets RAS Lakmal 25 2 126 3 5.04 (1w) MF Maharoof 17 5 57 0 3.35 (5nb, 1w) View wicket CRD Fernando 17 2 77 1 4.52 View wickets HMRKB Herath 18.5 1 64 2 3.39 TM Dilshan 7 1 30 0 4.28 Sri Lanka 1st innings R M B 4s 6s SR View dismissal NT Paranavitana c Strauss b Finn 65 234 184 10 0 35.32 View dismissal TM Dilshan* b Finn 193 433 253 20 2 76.28 View dismissal KC Sangakkara c †Prior b Tremlett 26 110 93 4 0 27.95 View dismissal DPMD Jayawardene c Cook b Finn 49 137 84 8 0 58.33 View dismissal TT Samaraweera c †Prior b Tremlett 9 53 42 0 0 21.42 View dismissal HAPW Jayawardene† c Swann b Finn 40 89 64 5 1 62.50 View dismissal MF Maharoof lbw b Broad 2 26 14 0 0 14.28 View dismissal HMRKB Herath st †Prior b Swann 26 51 33 2 1 78.78 View dismissal CRD Fernando c Strauss b Swann 5 15 7 1 0 71.42 RAS Lakmal not out 0 19 9 0 0 0.00 View dismissal UWMBCA Welegedara c Broad b Swann 6 9 9 0 0 66.66 Extras (b 25, lb 23, w 8, nb 2) 58 Total (all out; 131.4 overs; 597 mins) 479 (3.63 runs per over) Fall of wickets1-207 (Paranavitana, 53.5 ov), 2-288 (Sangakkara, 80.4 ov), 3-370 (Dilshan, 98.2 ov), 4-394 (DPMD Jayawardene, 108.5 ov), 5-394 (Samaraweera, 109.1 ov), 6-409 (Maharoof, 114.6 ov), 7-466 (Herath, 127.1 ov), 8-472 (HAPW Jayawardene, 128.1 ov), 9-472 (Fernando, 129.3 ov), 10-479 (Welegedara, 131.4 ov) Bowling O M R W Econ View wicket SCJ Broad 32 5 125 1 3.90 View wickets CT Tremlett 30 8 85 2 2.83 (1nb) View wickets ST Finn 33 8 108 4 3.27 (1nb, 3w) View wickets GP Swann 32.4 5 101 3 3.09 KP Pietersen 4 0 12 0 3.00 England 2nd innings R M B 4s 6s SR View dismissal AJ Strauss* lbw b Welegedara 0 1 2 0 0 0.00 View dismissal AN Cook st †HAPW Jayawardene b Herath 106 337 231 10 0 45.88 View dismissal IJL Trott b Herath 58 122 75 9 0 77.33 View dismissal KP Pietersen b Herath 72 167 124 7 0 58.06 IR Bell not out 57 61 43 8 0 132.55 View dismissal EJG Morgan c Lakmal b Fernando 4 3 3 1 0 133.33 View dismissal MJ Prior† run out (†HAPW Jayawardene) 4 4 2 0 0 200.00 View dismissal SCJ Broad c †HAPW Jayawardene b Fernando 3 11 7 0 0 42.85 Extras (lb 12, w 1, nb 18) 31 Total (7 wickets dec; 78.1 overs; 361 mins) 335 (4.28 runs per over) Did not bat GP Swann, CT Tremlett, ST Finn Fall of wickets1-0 (Strauss, 0.2 ov), 2-117 (Trott, 25.4 ov), 3-244 (Pietersen, 65.3 ov), 4-305 (Cook, 73.6 ov), 5-312 (Morgan, 74.5 ov), 6-319 (Prior, 75.5 ov), 7-335 (Broad, 78.1 ov) it was a high scoring draw.i do not how england did not struggle to take wickets . srilanka vs england 3rd test- http://www.espncricinfo.com/england-v-sri-lanka-2011/engine/match/474465.html again srilanka batted 104 overs and were in lead with 5 wickets down .

[Raghav_12]

This is without doubt worst performance by an Indian team from the time I started following cricket i.e. for last 22 years. Other defeats which come close to this are, India's series in WI 89 (Lost 4 tests series by 3-0, saved by rain in one), Series in Australia 91-92 (Lost 5 tests series by 4-0. Did well in one test at Sydney), Series in Australia 99 (Lost 3 test series by 3-0). So not only in terms of the way they surrendered, but also in terms of absolute numbers it is India's worst performance for last 20 years or so. Hail our great Captain - M S Dhoni.

[Trichromatic]

Wow! It was still an inning victory. Can't take anything away from them for winning that match. Two draws? England were ahead in those two matches. But you said it was struggle for England? :hmmm: 350 overs in 2nd test and they needed 7 wickets. 250 overs in 3rd test and SL were 150+ runs ahead with 5 wickets in hand. For this SA team, like I said they have better away record and their home record is pretty average.

Well they did not look like taking wickets that's what I meant .even if you had full play it would have been draws.

15 wickets in 168 overs - 3rd test/ 200 overs lost 13 wickets in 175 overs - 2nd test/ 100 overs lost They showed what they can do in 1 session against India and SL. Your standards must be extraordinary if that looks like struggle to you.

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15 wickets in 168 overs - 3rd test 13 wickets in 175 overs - 2nd test Your standards must be extraordinary if that looks like struggle to you.

Well they did not look like taking wickets that's what I meant .even if you had full play it would have been draws. srilanka vs england 2nd test- http://www.espncricinfo.com/england-...ch/474464.html it was a high scoring draw.i do not how england did not struggle to take wickets when opposition scores 400+. and srilanka needed 200 runs with 7 wickets in hand ,srilanka might have won had full play been possible srilanka vs england 3rd test- http://www.espncricinfo.com/england-...ch/474465.html again srilanka batted 104 overs and were in lead with 5 wickets down .again they are in lead of 180 .again they might have won .

[Sidhoni]

Thank you ! That brings a question..! Is current England team equal / better than that Australian side?

The better question is - Is this Indian team better than team of 1999?Yes.This team was No.1 b4 this series.