Don't get too excited by India's win vs Australia; tactical flaws remain

Don’t get too excited by India’s win vs Australia; tactical flaws remain During the 2003-04 tour, India – with the ‘Fab Four’, Virender Sehwag and Anil Kumble – nearly pulled off a series victory against a side led by the great Steve Waugh

Sports News: It has taken 71 years for India – or any team from the subcontinent for that matter – to win a test series in Australia. When the Sydney test match was called off on Monday due to rain, the Indian team made history by sealing a well-deserved 2-1 win.

If the weather had not intervened, it might as well have won 3-1.Ironically, the Indian cricket team’s first overseas tour after independence was to Australia. The team, led by Lala Amarnath, was lauded more for its diversity than its performance on the field.

In a preview of the 1947-48 tour, which began just two months after the Partition, a journalist noted: “On India’s sports fields, we still find Hindus, Muslims, Parsis, Sikhs,

Scheduled Classes, Christians, all brushing shoulders playing in the happiest spirit of amity, knowing no distinction of class or creed..”

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This amity did not, however, produce results on the field against the Australian “Invincibles” led by Don Bradman. As Wisden reported of the tour: “India cannot have happy memories of their tour in Australia during

1947/48… In the Test matches they were outclassed… such was the superiority of the Australians that except in one instance the result looked a foregone conclusion before the end of the first day.”

That it took over seven decades to redress India’s poor record in Australia is somewhat surprising. India has registered overseas series victories against England and West Indies as far back as…read more

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