Congratulations to India - first Asian team to win in Australia

[yasir]

This to me is bigger than World Cup, India’s greatest test( greatest victory period) victory in their history!!

Congratulations to India, they are truely world no 1 side ATM. Virat may not be best tactation but he is a great leader, their is a difference between the two, but his leadership skills are admirable and in many ways is the reason why India is in front!!

 

[WhenSultansBowled]

Both Kohli and Shastri are rating this series win higher than World Cup! Indian team wanted this bad to win this series.

What a champions! All credit to them. Especially the trio of Bumrah, Shami and Sharma.

Take a bow!

 

[Green Patriot]

Congratulations to the Indians.
They deserved this,they are currently the best.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Even the Test series isn't very real deal given Aussies were missing their two best batters. Imagine if India were missing Kohli and Pujara for a tour.

Yes. Drawing a series with Zimbabwe at home is the real deal in test cricket these days.

 

[AZulfi]

Incredible achievement by India. Batsmen in particular should get credit for this. Indian openers are not that special but their middle order really delivered on this tour.

Not so long ago India’s bowling used to struggle big time in Australia, South Africa and England. Now in Bumrah they have a good swing bowler and their batsmen have the ability to score runs in all types of conditions.

The main difference between Pakistan and India is the quality of the Indian middle order - Pujara, Kohli and Rahane plus in Pant they have discovered a very good wicket-keeper who can score runs as well (just like Dhoni).

 

[TM Riddle]

Kohli: "This Australia series win is more emotional than 2011 WC"

 

[Robert]

I think we should all congratulate India on an immense achievement.

I feel sad actually, like I did when NZ beat them in Australia. Nobody except England is allowed to beat the Aussies in my mind. It’s hard to accept that Australia have fallen so far. Truly this is their worst team in history. They can’t bat any more. And they have been sabotaged by their own groundsmen.

Nice to see Pujara in the runs though - my favourite Indian batter since Azhar.

 

[Swashbuckler]

I feel sad actually, like I did when NZ beat them in Australia. Nobody except England is allowed to beat the Aussies in my mind. It’s hard to accept that Australia have fallen so far. Truly this is their worst team in history. They can’t bat any more. And they have been sabotaged by their own groundsmen.

Nice to see Pujara in the runs though - my favourite Indian batter since Azhar.

How?

 

[MP2011]

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lol at Pujara, couldn't even do this!

 

[MP2011]

Nobody except England is allowed to beat the Aussies in my mind. It’s hard to accept that Australia have fallen so far. Truly this is their worst team in history. They can’t bat any more. And they have been sabotaged by their own groundsmen.

Let the excuses flow freely.

And lol at nobody else is allowed to beat Aus. SA has already beaten then twice (or thrice) in Aus!

 

[Junaids]

How?

The same drop-in pitches that Pakistan got two years ago. Slower than normal pitches and less bouncy, it's a spongy, tennis ball bounce.

Just plays into the hands of the visitors. But Pakistan had picked the two geriatric has-beens and so even those pitches were too much for them.

 

[London_Lahori]

Congratulations to our neighbours on a monumental and historic achievement!

 

[Robert]

The same drop-in pitches that Pakistan got two years ago. Slower than normal pitches and less bouncy, it's a spongy, tennis ball bounce.

Just plays into the hands of the visitors. But Pakistan had picked the two geriatric has-beens and so even those pitches were too much for them.

Quite, the ACB should have insisted on hard bouncy decks, but they got ones that assisted the oppo. Wish they had served up decks like them for England a year ago!

 

[MP2011]

Ignorance (and excuses) here is astounding!

 

[TM Riddle]

Quite, the ACB should have insisted on hard bouncy decks, but they got ones that assisted the oppo. Wish they had served up decks like them for England a year ago!

I hope you don't protest when India dish out dustbowls in the upcoming home season. The hypocrisy is appalling.

 

[topspin]

Congrats to all the Indian PPers, well deserved and as expected before the series began when looking at the sides on paper.

I noticed during the 2015 WC, this was perhaps the first time I've ever witnessed the superiority of the Indian pacers over the Pakistani ones and given that India is a factory for producing such quality batsmen it was only a matter of time when they would go on to become the first Asian side to win in Aus and/or SA.

This is just the beginning of India's golden era.

 

[MP2011]

I hope you don't protest when India dish out dustbowls in the upcoming home season. The hypocrisy is appalling.

This! Such hypocrisy first from SA and then Eng!

 

[Pakhs]

Good work by India! This has been coming India has been touring well to Australia for the last few year but strong Australian teams stopped them from winning but this current Australian team had no chance. The score line really should read 3-1.

 

[Junaids]

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I love the fact that a website for Pakistan cricket is full of Pakistan supporters who are thrilled for their Indian friends for their great achievement.

I really do think that’s wonderful.

A lot of teasing goes on here, but it’s not trolling, it’s friendly rivalry manifesting itself in teasing.

There cannot be too many Pakistan cricket lovers who deep down don’t think “I wish it was us”. Yet they are still excited for India.

 

[GoUgandaCranes]

I was slightly envious at the beginning of the tour but now I've nothing but heartiest congratulations to all the Indian posters on this forum and elsewhere. It's a tremendous achievement and there are no ifs and buts here.

Good job guys. Well played and you deserve to cherish this moment as long as it lasts. Amazing.

You guys have a cricket team that's the center of cricketing universe, bowlers who can perform in four straight tests without getting injured, and world class current and upcoming batsmen.

Respect.

 

[Swashbuckler]

The same drop-in pitches that Pakistan got two years ago. Slower than normal pitches and less bouncy, it's a spongy, tennis ball bounce.

Just plays into the hands of the visitors. But Pakistan had picked the two geriatric has-beens and so even those pitches were too much for them.

Quite, the ACB should have insisted on hard bouncy decks, but they got ones that assisted the oppo. Wish they had served up decks like them for England a year ago!

Aussie pitches have been like this for quite a while, concrete slab drop-ins have become a recurring feature in their home season. I felt this time the pitches were juiced up more than our 2014-15 series. Plenty of batsmen got hit. Did you watch Bumrah, Shami and Cummins bowl?

[MENTION=7774]Robert[/MENTION] England got plenty of flat slabs last year, there were several 500 and 600 type scores. Just that English bowlers didn't hit the deck hard enough and their batsmen weren't good enough (early reverse swing didn't help).

I feel this is rather unsporting to make it sound like the Ashes pitches were different than the ones India/Pakistan got.

 

[Robert]

I hope you don't protest when India dish out dustbowls in the upcoming home season. The hypocrisy is appalling.

No hypocrisy because that is what you expect in India.

And you have made a logic error - the analogy would be India making wickets to suit Australia, as ACB just did to suit India.

 

[Canford Cliffs]

I feel sad actually, like I did when NZ beat them in Australia. Nobody except England is allowed to beat the Aussies in my mind. It’s hard to accept that Australia have fallen so far. Truly this is their worst team in history. They can’t bat any more. And they have been sabotaged by their own groundsmen.

Nice to see Pujara in the runs though - my favourite Indian batter since Azhar.

What do you mean by that? Its the mindset like this is why English cricket struggled in other formats for so long and have never won a world cup. For them only beating Australia in Ashes matters and rest all take a back seat. They had this mindset until WC 2015 when they faced a humiliation exit after got beaten by BD and which forced ECB to take ODIs seriously and make some forced changes.

But Aussies (that I know off) are not like that. Yes Ashes is important for them but so are other series/formats. They are not as much Poms obsessed as Brits are towards Aussies.

#Fact

 

[Robert]

Aussie pitches have been like this for quite a while, concrete slab drop-ins have become a recurring feature in their home season. I felt this time the pitches were juiced up more than our 2014-15 series. Plenty of batsmen got hit. Did you watch Bumrah, Shami and Cummins bowl?

[MENTION=7774]Robert[/MENTION] England got plenty of flat slabs last year, there were several 500 and 600 type scores. Just that English bowlers didn't hit the deck hard enough and their batsmen weren't good enough (early reverse swing didn't help).

I feel this is rather unsporting to make it sound like the Ashes pitches were different than the ones India/Pakistan got.

So Australia made wickets to suit Australian bowlers more than English ones, is that what you are saying?

 

[Robert]

What do you mean by that? Its the mindset like this is why English cricket struggled in other formats for so long and have never won a world cup. For them only beating Australia in Ashes matters and rest all take a back seat. They had this mindset until WC 2015 when they faced a humiliation exit after got beaten by BD and which forced ECB to take ODIs seriously and make some forced changes.

But Aussies (that I know off) are not like that. Yes Ashes is important for them but so are other series/formats. They are not as much Poms obsessed as Brits are towards Aussies.

#Fact

It means I have a soft spot for Australia. Nothing to do with English cricket. I am not the ECB, you know, I am just Robert.

#fact

 

[bantu]

Well done Team India ... Huge congratulations.. Definitely the biggest victory after the 1983 World Cup ....

 

[Swashbuckler]

The sportsmanship and respect shown by Pakistani posters here is laudable. This is what sports should be about, the PP forum and Pak based posters here represent the nation of Pakistan very well, great ambassadors indeed .

Posters from other countries too have shown grace, but praise coming from arch-rivals (enemies in some sense unlike Aus-Eng) amidst poor relations/hatred between the 2 countries is special. Hope you guys win in Australia later this year so that we Indians can return the favor. Whenever Team India achieves something for the first time (WC, WT20, CT, ICC mace) it is not long before Pakistan does the same. Hope the trend continues later this year, Aussies have bullied the SC teams far too often and now it is payback time .

 

[Canford Cliffs]

It means I have a soft spot for Australia. Nothing to do with English cricket. I am not the ECB, you know, I am just Robert.

#fact

Soft spot for Australia by an Englishman? Wow thats a revelation and unheard off. Good to hear Robbie. Normally the fans of these 2 nations fight (in a sporting way and not Indo-Pak style) for everything and in every sport. Recently Brits send few horses for Cox plate to take on the great Australian mare. There was an all out war in twitter

 

[Sachin136]

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I love the fact that a website for Pakistan cricket is full of Pakistan supporters who are thrilled for their Indian friends for their great achievement.

I really do think that’s wonderful.

A lot of teasing goes on here, but it’s not trolling, it’s friendly rivalry manifesting itself in teasing.

There cannot be too many Pakistan cricket lovers who deep down don’t think “I wish it was us”. Yet they are still excited for India.

You must have missed the hundreds of posts about how this is a weakened Australian team.

 

[Hasan123]

Well done to India. They deserved the win. They can't control Smith and Warners actions. They can only play what's in front of them.

Congrats to Indian fans on PP.

 

[Junaids]

You must have missed the hundreds of posts about how this is a weakened Australian team.

It doesn’t matter that it’s a weakened Australia team. You can only beat whoever lines up against you.

When Pakistan drew in the West Indies in 87-88 the victory came at Georgetown when Richards and Marshall were unfit. Yet it’s still the greatest moment in Pakistan cricket history by a country mile.

Pakistan is playing a weakened South Africa. No De Villiers. No Morkel. No Abbott. And how’s that going for your neighbours?

I’m thrilled for India, just absolutely thrilled. I really do think it’s worth both their World Cups!

 

[TheRock]

Many thanks to all pakistani posters for appreciating our (Indian) test series win downunder. And, Best wishes to Pakistan for your tour to Australia in Dec 2019.

 

[PerfectionPersonified]

Only Rain saved India from the series Draw ;p

On the serious note, PUJARA alone was the difference, hats off

 

[Robert]

Soft spot for Australia by an Englishman? Wow thats a revelation and unheard off. Good to hear Robbie. Normally the fans of these 2 nations fight (in a sporting way and not Indo-Pak style) for everything and in every sport. Recently Brits send few horses for Cox plate to take on the great Australian mare. There was an all out war in twitter

Not really, the rivalry is deadly but it's like two brothers who don't get on but love each other deep down.

 

[Robert]

It doesn’t matter that it’s a weakened Australia team. You can only beat whoever lines up against you.

This is true. India competed better for longer and deserved their win. I would have expected 0-3 India to be honest and was suprised that the Aussies got enough runs to win a test.

The Aussies got zero LBWs in the series. That has to be a coaching issue.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Quite, the ACB should have insisted on hard bouncy decks, but they got ones that assisted the oppo. Wish they had served up decks like them for England a year ago!

The decks you got were slow too. Anderson, vaughan and a host of other Englishman mentioned that last year.

 

[Torborg]

While this is an ATG Australia bowling attack, sans Warner and Smith, this is a laughably weak Australian batting lineup. So there will be some asterisks when the Aussies were missing their two best batsman.

That being said, the Indian seamers outbowled the Australian ones and that alone is a huge deal.

I think the Australian seam bowling was probably equal of the Indians. Forget the series bowling averages and look at the quality of batsmen each team was bowling at.

If the Aussies were bowling at the Marshes instead of Pujara and Kohli, they would look like world beaters too.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

I think the Australian seam bowling was probably equal of the Indians. Forget the series bowling averages and look at the quality of batsmen each team was bowling at.

If the Aussies were bowling at the Marshes instead of Pujara and Kohli, they would look like world beaters too.

The biggest difference was in the batting lineups; Take away Pujara and

CricViz did an analysis and found that Indian bowlers found more swing and seam than Australian fast bowlers throughout the series. Not by much. But just enough. Also our bowlers targeted the stumps more often and were more accurate.

 

[Swashbuckler]

So Australia made wickets to suit Australian bowlers more than English ones, is that what you are saying?

No what I am saying is that Australia have been producing similar type of wickets for a long time, irrespective of who tours be it SA, Pak, Ind, Eng, NZ, WI or SL. They have never made pitches keeping a particular opponent in mind.

 

[MMHS]

Congrats, no doubt great achievement. Even with this current squad I am sure Aussies will sweep other Asian teams at home.

 

[Abdullah719]

Congratulations guys, great achievement.

 

[PerfectionPersonified]

Wish Pakistan had one Pujaara

 

[Torborg]

CricViz did an analysis and found that Indian bowlers found more swing and seam than Australian fast bowlers throughout the series. Not by much. But just enough. Also our bowlers targeted the stumps more often and were more accurate.

It's a line-ball decision either way in my opinion. The main difference was in the batting, and Pujara in particular.

I was disappointed to see the last test finished by weather. A 3-1 win would have been a more fitting result.

 

[Torborg]

Wish Pakistan had one Pujaara

Australia will take one too!

Rahul Dravid reborn.

 

[TM Riddle]

No hypocrisy because that is what you expect in India.

And you have made a logic error - the analogy would be India making wickets to suit Australia, as ACB just did to suit India.

So you expect India preparing wickets to suit their needs something inevitable and morally wrong (judging from your tone) and yet have no qualms over lamenting Aussie groundsmen's failure to provide their team home advantage by making fast and bouncy pitches.

The irony clearly seems lost on you.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

It's a line-ball decision either way in my opinion. The main difference was in the batting, and Pujara in particular.

I was disappointed to see the last test finished by weather. A 3-1 win would have been a more fitting result.

Yeah the gulf in batting was very wide especially after Mayank aggarwal gave us those starts. Once Shaw comes back, I think the batting will finally start reaching its full potential or somewhere near that atleast. I'm just happy that an Indian pace attack managed to match an OZ attack on their own turf though.


Australia have been producing slower and slower wickets these last few years and that I think has affected your team. Need to make flat wickets with pace and bounce where your bats can score at 4 an over . That's your strength and you guys should stick to it even if it makes for somewhat boring runfests.

 

[JaDed]

Thanks everyone, have waited for this win for a long time!! Credit to the Indian players ,played hard and we're on top of this Aussie team!
Special mention to Mayank for helping us with opener issues and making sure we were not losing last two tests.

 

[Robert]

So you expect India preparing wickets to suit their needs something inevitable and morally wrong (judging from your tone) and yet have no qualms over lamenting Aussie groundsmen's failure to provide their team home advantage by making fast and bouncy pitches.

The irony clearly seems lost on you.

How can you hear tone in text? I think you are reading my words in your head putting your own vocal tone in.

Of course India producing spin wickets is not morally wrong. But Aussies making wickets to help the oppo is just stupid.

 

[jadaja]

How can you hear tone in text? I think you are reading my words in your head putting your own vocal tone in.

Of course India producing spin wickets is not morally wrong. But Aussies making wickets to help the oppo is just stupid.

How did they make wickets to suit Indian bowlers. The test Australia won was due to their spinner. India does not need any special wickets to beat any team anywhere.It has bowling to combat any conditions.

 

[Torborg]

Yeah the gulf in batting was very wide especially after Mayank aggarwal gave us those starts. Once Shaw comes back, I think the batting will finally start reaching its full potential or somewhere near that atleast. I'm just happy that an Indian pace attack managed to match an OZ attack on their own turf though.


Australia have been producing slower and slower wickets these last few years and that I think has affected your team. Need to make flat wickets with pace and bounce where your bats can score at 4 an over . That's your strength and you guys should stick to it even if it makes for somewhat boring runfests.

Australia don't doctor wickets to our favour...unfortunately.

Most of the international cricket grounds are primarily Aussie rules football grounds, so drop in pitches that don't interfere with AFL are a necessity.

 

[Canford Cliffs]

Where is my good old friend [MENTION=146500]RainMan_[/MENTION]

He was very active during practice match and on 1st day of 1st test. Come out bro and congratulate the greatest cricket team on planet earth

 

[SportsWarrior]

While this is an ATG Australia bowling attack, sans Warner and Smith, this is a laughably weak Australian batting lineup. So there will be some asterisks when the Aussies were missing their two best batsman.

That being said, the Indian seamers outbowled the Australian ones and that alone is a huge deal.

So taking two players out makes them laughably weak? Speaks volumes about their depth. It is not like it happened suddenly. I hey has 9 months to prepare.

 

[Haroon786]

Congratulations to the team, really well played and this series will live long in the memory as a historic landmark.

 

[Robert]

No what I am saying is that Australia have been producing similar type of wickets for a long time, irrespective of who tours be it SA, Pak, Ind, Eng, NZ, WI or SL. They have never made pitches keeping a particular opponent in mind.

I don’t think they had any plan at all. It just so happened that the drop-in pitches suited India better than Australia. Which was a bit daft of the ACB.

 

[DRsohail]

Congrats, no doubt great achievement. Even with this current squad I am sure Aussies will sweep other Asian teams at home.

Srilanka can get a draw?? They did well against NZ.doing decent in odi though losing.

 

[unitedkush]

Wish they had served up decks like them for England a year ago!

Served up decks like England got. So you mean the pitches at MCG and SCG then? Where India had the opportunity to make them follow on in back to back Tests?

A bit too convenient to trot out the pitches favored the opposition, it's downplaying the fact Indian bowlers know how to take wickets on dead pitches/lifeless roads.

No hypocrisy because that is what you expect in India.

What nonsense, England got the most kind of Indian pitches without any of the excessive spin. Yet despite winning 4 tosses and putting 400 on board multiple times, got pasted.

We don't doctor pitches consistently like the SA or BD. In fact last time we did that in Pune, it blew up in our face.

 

[unitedkush]

I don’t think they had any plan at all. It just so happened that the drop-in pitches suited India better than Australia. Which was a bit daft of the ACB.

How was it daft for ACB? And how come the pitches suited us better? Is it in hindsight because before the series started, all the talk was about Australia's world class bowling attack of Starc, Cummins, Hazlewood and Lyon who despite their weak batting would earn their side a series win.

As it turned out, their Indians counterpart outbowled them. I'm just curious how do you explain why that happened and why the pitch had such a crucial role in it.

 

[Mainul]

Pant, Agarwal, Bumrah, Prithvi, Vihari, Kuldeep all around or under 25 and have played hardly any test cricket. This augers well for future.. having these kind of highs at the start of your career allows these guys to grow up believing in their abilities.. htey will not carry any demons like Kumble/Tendu/Dravid carried around overseas tours. Except India to boss teams in next decade in test cricket.

Good explanation. I agree.

I have already congratulated to all the Indians here on the second day of this test match. Again a big congrats.

 

[MenInG]

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[Buffet]

Pakistan under Misbah ul Haq has adopted the same approach. Only difference is that atleast in India, the batsmen around Pujara keep the scoring rate up which relieves the pressure on him whereas Azhar Ali just becomes a night watchman

Main difference was bowlers. Pakistan did put up decent scores at times, but bowling was toothless in Aus.

 

[EliteCynical]

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I love the fact that a website for Pakistan cricket is full of Pakistan supporters who are thrilled for their Indian friends for their great achievement.

I really do think that’s wonderful.

A lot of teasing goes on here, but it’s not trolling, it’s friendly rivalry manifesting itself in teasing.

There cannot be too many Pakistan cricket lovers who deep down don’t think “I wish it was us”. Yet they are still excited for India.

Indeed. Very happy to see this. Also reg your point about drop in pitches, may be a separate thread, but wanted to know your opinion on why drop in pitches behave differently, even though the soil is anyway going to be the same!

 

[JaDed]

Indeed. Very happy to see this. Also reg your point about drop in pitches, may be a separate thread, but wanted to know your opinion on why drop in pitches behave differently, even though the soil is anyway going to be the same!

Wb ,how come you missed all.the action on the forum at least

 

[EliteCynical]

Thanks everyone, have waited for this win for a long time!! Credit to the Indian players ,played hard and we're on top of this Aussie team!
Special mention to Mayank for helping us with opener issues and making sure we were not losing last two tests.

If you ask me the most defining moment of the series, it was Mayank coming down the track and hitting Lyon at MCG, which made Lyon change his line. After that, Lyon wasn't the same as he was at Adelaide and Perth. Indians allowed him to land the ball on the same spot again and again until then! So yes, Mayank has as big a role in this series win as say Ishant or Shami or Kohli

 

[EliteCynical]

Wb ,how come you missed all.the action on the forum at least

Not sure what you mean there. I am not regular these days!

 

[rhony]

How can you hear tone in text? I think you are reading my words in your head putting your own vocal tone in.

Of course India producing spin wickets is not morally wrong. But Aussies making wickets to help the oppo is just stupid.

The Melbourne track in the last ashes test was a road. Here, it at least produced a result. The last two tests had flatter pitches to help Aussie batsmen.and they failed to capitalize. If They wanted to help Indians, Sydney would have been a raging Turner and it wasn't. Aussies tried everything at their disposal but Indian team is just better.

 

[rhony]

I feel sad actually, like I did when NZ beat them in Australia. Nobody except England is allowed to beat the Aussies in my mind. It’s hard to accept that Australia have fallen so far. Truly this is their worst team in history. They can’t bat any more. And they have been sabotaged by their own groundsmen.

Nice to see Pujara in the runs though - my favourite Indian batter since Azhar.

Don't worry too much. This hiding will give the Aussies enough time to prepare for Ashes. I think they underestimated India

 

[MMHS]

Srilanka can get a draw?? They did well against NZ.doing decent in odi though losing.

Hope so, but IND didn't win this series through batsmen, rather through their bowlers. Batting does help, you can't win Test with 1st innings of 177 on a decent wicket and IND did recover from 42-4 to post 250 in 1st Test which set the tune of the series. Had IND got bundled for 150 at Adelaide, I think by 4th Test, Aussies would have been 3-0 up; IND was always favorite at SCG. Still, it was bowlers that shocked Aussies more.

SRL doesn't have that attack, and in AUS unless you contain runs rate by knocking wickets, it's near impossible to draw a Test if 450 overs are available. It's not UAE - Aussies can post combined innings 750 in 200 overs and leave enough time to get 20 wickets.

 

[big_gamer007]

Good win.. Congratulations to kohli and boys.. I see some people trying to sound happy by then pass subtle remarks which shows how sad they are feeling..

End of the day India played better cricket and won, it's a good achievement no doubt but this should just be the beginning.. The next generation should aim to dominate world cricket and eventually be so dominant that even India C team beats rest of the nation's convincingly .

 

[JaDed]

Not sure what you mean there. I am not regular these days!

Yeah but for Aus series you should had come jk.mate hope all good..

 

[EliteCynical]

Yeah but for Aus series you should had come jk.mate hope all good..

All good man. Good win. Onwards and upwards hopefully!

 

[battler]

A truly landmark moment in India's cricketing history. Definitely our greatest test achievement ever and probably our greatest cricketing achievement too! Will live long in the memory!

 

[Bhaijaan]

Thanks to all the great folks out there who are most willing to give credit where its due. Believe it or not, for all the haters in the world, there is always a minority of fans who truly enjoy special moments of neighboring nations in SENA. For so many decades the SC fan has grown accustomed to seeing their teams being squashed in Australia both by their players and by their ruthless media. To see India turning the clock the other way around and serving humble pies to the Aussies must be a rather satisfying moment for many leaving aside the obvious envy.

I keep tracking the Pakistani fans, analysts opinions and they all seem pumped up currently as if Pakistan's won in Australia and its so heartening to see indeed.

My advice to Indian cricket is to just to keep it classy and respectful. There's much to be achieved. There is no doubt that they have a great set up now and a wonderful talent pool. Indian cricket is in its ascendancy and they should set their sights very very high. Big things now seem achievable and believable. Many years ago many of us simply prayed of losing with respect. Now there are realistic aspirations of not simply winning but winning big.

 

[jadaja]

I love people saying Pujara was the difference, take Smith out in 2014 Australia was losing 0-4 .

 

[Mr.Q]

A great achievement this. Every Asian should be proud of it. We’ve proved to the Aussies that physical might ain’t everything in sports. I think in the next 10 years Asian sides are going to have series wins in SENA.

 

[babajee]

Didn't expect it at all but well done to the Indian team especially Pujara and Bumrah.

 

[The Viper]

Amazing performance by India. Throughly deserved. Congrats to Indian PP members.

 

[hadi123]

Congratulations. They done it despite Kohli not having that good of a series (by his standards at least). They competed well in SA and England and have now won a series, yes it was against a weaker team but they still deserve a lot of praise and credit. They're definitely a superior team to Pakistan, I don't think our team would compete even against this weak Aussie team in Australia.


I found it funny how our fans were laughing when India lost the 2nd match, which LEVELLED the series in Australia, just days after we (Pakistan) LOST a HOME series against NZ. Sums up the difference in quality of the teams.

 

[PakLFC]

Aussies being a second rate side is not India's problem. India are the best test side at the moment who deserve to be in the position that they are. Indian strength is their terrific batting line up that easily scores 400 giving their bowlers plenty to bowl at. Scoring so many runs means at the very least they can't lose the match unlike our useless batting line up who can't even reach 200. Of course I wanted India to lose but have no problem in admitting that they deserved to win. With Kohli not doing very well in the series shows they are not a one man team like many believe.

 

[SL_Fan]

Congrats to India on a well deserved series win. Out-batted, out-fielded, out-thought and even out-bowled Australia. Oz probably lucky not to get whitewashed at home. Sydney saved by the rain and the Perth wicket I thought was quite a dangerous one and a bit of a lottery. Didn't expect Pujara to be the hero after his struggles last tour and even during his recent County cricket stint but man that was some quality Test batting. Rock solid. Indian bowling, plans and fielding this series mighty impressive as well. There was no let up. After this showing India certainly deserves the number one tag. Well played!

 

[giri26]

Well done to the team. While growing up watching cricket in India, I never thought I will see such a day when India will be able to win in Australia and that too convincingly. Brilliant performance.