Kohli was quite Australian after winning the U-19 World Cup in 2008
“I was surprised with India’s decision to field four quicks and I honestly felt Pragyan Ojha would have been a good choice. The Australians have not played left-arm spin well over the years and India should have had the variation in their attack,” writes Sourav Ganguly in the Sydney Morning Herald. “On the other hand, for Australia it was a good choice. Nathan Lyon has not been effective in the series and, if I were Michael Clarke, I would play four quicks in Adelaide as well.” In the same paper,…
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Be it Vernon Philander, Pat Cummins or James Pattinson, Doug Bracewell or Umesh Yadav, pace has dominated in the most recent Test series, says Andrew Alderson, writing in the New Zealand Herald. Subsequently, in the age of Twenty20, batting techniques look brittle. Observations indicate pace bowling’s resurgence could be a trend; at least in places where grass grows willingly. Evidence of pace bowling dominance has come with the wickets taken in the last five series. In the first test of the Australia-India series, quick bowlers took 88 per cent of…
Michael Clarke batted for more than 10 hours to score 329 against India at the SCG. What kept him going for that long without cramping and being stricken by fatigue? David Sygall tells us in the Sydney Morning Herald. Australian team strength and conditioning coach Stuart Karppinen gave an insight into some of the scientific strategy the Australian captain went through to maintain peak performance across his innings, which stretched over three days of play, posing a unique physical and mental challenge. At the end of day one, when he…
Remember Gavin Robertson, the Australia offspinner who made his Test debut against India in Chennai in 1998, and then fell off the international circuit after a few months? In the Sydney Morning Herald, Daniel Lane narrates what happened to Robertson after his Australia and New South Wales career. Not all of it is pretty, but Robertson’s story turns out okay. Dropped from the national team and axed by NSW, off-spinner Gavin Robertson fell from being a respected athlete to a 31-year-old father who depended on social welfare payments to feed…
By Stuart John, Australia Can Ed Cowan make more out of his international career than his English namesake?
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