Zaheer Khan the hero of the last day!
Last five test matches if seen played between Australia and India this year, counting the 3 tests in Australia and 2 in India- India actually won it 2-1.
This only shows that India has come up quite consistently this year and this is not a one-off incident.
Now for most of the things people have started talking about (which always happens either when India wins big like this one or losses horribly), I would say a slump in Australian champion form is for there to see, I mean the retirement of the star bowlers like McGrath, Gillesepie, Warne, McGill have left Australia with a serious hollow in bowling department and Ponting, Hayden is definitely not in there prime after Gilli is gone.
But ‘m sure they are going to resurrect very soon, given there track record and there superb infrastructure back home.
Other than that Dhoni the Super Captain and Amit Mishra the wizard bowler has a long long way to go to actually get all the praise they have been getting off let. I guess everybody actually played well and lets not forget other bowlers, Tendulkar, Ganguly and Gauti who actually out played Australia.
Now for our Cricket soap - It would be interesting to see if Anil now comes up and captains the last two tests or sit out (Oops injured!), he is sitting on a double edged sword, Mishra did well coming for him and Dhoni won the test for India, this is going to be interesting to see. Kumble if ‘m not wrong would have a tough call contemplating playing after the home series in over.
Ganguly again playing his last series and people already talking his come back even before he bows out!!!
I personally wish he calls it a day as decided cause that would be a really brilliant way to go out you know….specially after what he has gone through as a player. If he goes out after the series I would say - his would be probably the best way of hanging the boots Indian cricket or rather cricketers have seen for quite some time, taking into account all the legends who have moved out of the team in last 10-15 years.
So as usual a lot things to watch for in the series and also after it……
