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[PICTURES/VIDEO] When avoiding a follow-on feels like a win?

So avoiding follow on was like getting an upper hand now for indian fans??? WHYYYY
Not just Indian fans. Australian fans echoed the same. Because they know why this schedule was carefully drawn up for BGT. They started with three of their dominant venues to make sure they go into 4th test with 2-0 or 3-0. It was not to be. Because in the MCG in the last 3 tests India won 2 and drew 1. At the SCG India drew last 2. Both help spinners a bit more than the venues that we have so far played. Some Aussie analysts even conclude India already won the series.
 
What do you say now looking at Australia's batting?
Australia only played 18 overs with a makeshift batting order. I wouldn’t look to much into their collapse today. In spite of this collapse, if this match was to continue, India would still lose from this position. Australia will win the series.
 
Australia only played 18 overs with a makeshift batting order. I wouldn’t look to much into their collapse today. In spite of this collapse, if this match was to continue, India would still lose from this position. Australia will win the series.
Thanks for your good wishes!
 
Australia only played 18 overs with a makeshift batting order. I wouldn’t look to much into their collapse today. In spite of this collapse, if this match was to continue, India would still lose from this position. Australia will win the series.
Anyways, I still respect you as a poster a lot. That's because you can predict things in cricket that no one else I've known can. You predicted that India will win their last Test series in Australia after we were all out for 36 and lost our 1st Test. You predicted that Pakistan will win their last series at home against England after they were blown away in the 1st Test.

You have an unreal ability to predict things.​
 
Not just Indian fans. Australian fans echoed the same. Because they know why this schedule was carefully drawn up for BGT. They started with three of their dominant venues to make sure they go into 4th test with 2-0 or 3-0. It was not to be. Because in the MCG in the last 3 tests India won 2 and drew 1. At the SCG India drew last 2. Both help spinners a bit more than the venues that we have so far played. Some Aussie analysts even conclude India already won the series.

Bang on.

Also you have maximum Bharatiyas living in Melbourne and Sydney who will turn out in good numbers in the next two tests.

Can’t wait to see Bumrah coming at the Aussies firing all cylinders at the G. Stuff of dreams.
 
If India has followed on they would probably have lost.

Again, this was a huge partnership and achievement in the context of the series.

They are still in it.
 
If India has followed on they would probably have lost.

Again, this was a huge partnership and achievement in the context of the series.

They are still in it.

I doubt so. Both cummins and Starc were absolutely spent. They were drenching in sweat with humidity. There is no way they would have any energy in their tank to bowl at Indians. With Marsh not willing to bowl they did not have any resources to run through the side again.
 
Anyways, I still respect you as a poster a lot. That's because you can predict things in cricket that no one else I've known can. You predicted that India will win their last Test series in Australia after we were all out for 36 and lost our 1st Test. You predicted that Pakistan will win their last series at home against England after they were blown away in the 1st Test.

You have an unreal ability to predict things.​
Thank you.

This series is a bridge too far for this Indian team. The bowling is overly dependent on one man and several batsmen are short of confidence.

It is just that when you win the first Test of a series, it raises hopes and expectations. Happened to England twice in India on the last two tours.

Australia will take this series, but of course India should be proud of the fact that they won have two Test series in Australia when no other Asian team, or even Indian team of the past, have won even a single series.

The conclusion of this series should also mark the end of an era for Rohit and Kohli. The retirement of Ashwin will put more pressure on these over the hill seniors to call it a day. Ashwin has established a standard and he has walked away with respect before he is forced out.

Rohit and Kohli should both realize that the day is not far when BCCI will be forced into dropping them and they must retire with dignity before that happens.

India’s next major tour is to England in summer of 2025 and neither of the two would any value there, so this is the perfect time to retire.
 
Thank you.

This series is a bridge too far for this Indian team. The bowling is overly dependent on one man and several batsmen are short of confidence.

It is just that when you win the first Test of a series, it raises hopes and expectations. Happened to England twice in India on the last two tours.

Australia will take this series, but of course India should be proud of the fact that they won have two Test series in Australia when no other Asian team, or even Indian team of the past, have won even a single series.

The conclusion of this series should also mark the end of an era for Rohit and Kohli. The retirement of Ashwin will put more pressure on these over the hill seniors to call it a day. Ashwin has established a standard and he has walked away with respect before he is forced out.

Rohit and Kohli should both realize that the day is not far when BCCI will be forced into dropping them and they must retire with dignity before that happens.

India’s next major tour is to England in summer of 2025 and neither of the two would any value there, so this is the perfect time to retire.
If only BCCI, Rohit or Kohli listened to you. We’ll have to bear the torture.
 
Thank you.

This series is a bridge too far for this Indian team. The bowling is overly dependent on one man and several batsmen are short of confidence.

It is just that when you win the first Test of a series, it raises hopes and expectations. Happened to England twice in India on the last two tours.

Australia will take this series, but of course India should be proud of the fact that they won have two Test series in Australia when no other Asian team, or even Indian team of the past, have won even a single series.

The conclusion of this series should also mark the end of an era for Rohit and Kohli. The retirement of Ashwin will put more pressure on these over the hill seniors to call it a day. Ashwin has established a standard and he has walked away with respect before he is forced out.

Rohit and Kohli should both realize that the day is not far when BCCI will be forced into dropping them and they must retire with dignity before that happens.

India’s next major tour is to England in summer of 2025 and neither of the two would any value there, so this is the perfect time to retire.

I think much like Pakistan cricket, we too will immediately see an improvement once the out of form batters are replaced with younger in from batters with some good seasons in first class cricket behind them. Nobody knew about Kamran Gulab before the England series outside Pakistan and he’s emerged as your next middle order mainstay.

Australia is one of the toughest tours in cricket. It’s not just about winning and losing but Australia tour generally breaks teams apart and leaves scars on players legacies. The boys are fighting /surviving , whatever you say but when did an Aussie tour become a walk in the park? I think back to back winning tours to Australia made people forget how tough it is to even be 1-1 after 3 tests in Australia.

All those who are calling this Aussie team weak, i am willing to bet they will spank England if Harry Brook doesn’t deliver.
 
That's because you can predict things in cricket that no one else I've known can. You predicted that India will win their last Test series in Australia after we were all out for 36 and lost our 1st Test. You predicted that Pakistan will win their last series at home against England after they were blown away in the 1st Test.

You have an unreal ability to predict things.

That is true .. if you ignore the 600 other predictions that he got wrong.
 
Shastri’s strong views on India’s Brisbane follow-on celebrations

The former coach believes India were well within their rights to celebrate passing the follow-on in Brisbane and can build on their effort as the Test series against Australia heads to Melbourne.

India’s resilience on the final day of the third Test against Australia in Brisbane has been a defining moment in the ongoing series and provided the team with a psychological boost ahead of the Boxing Day Test at the MCG, according to former coach Ravi Shastri.

Shastri reflected on the importance of the Indian team avoiding the follow-on at the Gabba when speaking with host Sanjana Ganesan on the most recent episode of The ICC Review.

“You should celebrate,” Shastri said. “It required a lot of character from the last pair with 35-36 runs needed. That celebration showed, they knew the importance of that effort within the dressing room in the context of the series.”

The effort from Jasprit Bumrah and Akash Deep was not just about saving the follow-on, but setting the tone for the next phase of the game.

As Shastri put it, “It's one thing following on, it's one thing then again being 2-3 down as opposed to, you going ahead and rattling the Australian top-order. It is fully justified.”

Shastri was quick to compare this performance to similar moments in India’s recent history, particularly recalling the remarkable 89-run partnership between Bumrah and Mohammed Shami at Lord’s during the 2021 series against England.

“It reminded me of the celebration, when in COVID times, when Jasprit and Mohammed Shami were involved in a partnership at Lord’s, which turned the game on its head,” Shastri said.

“England were odds on favourites on the final day to win the Test. And that partnership, I think of about 80 or 90, suddenly turned the game on its head and by the end of the day, India had won the Test match.”

For Shastri, India’s recent successes in Test cricket have often been defined by the stubbornness and resilience of the tail-enders.

Whether it’s Bumrah and Shami’s resilience, or the steadfast batting of Ravichandran Ashwin and Hanuma Vihari in Sydney, the ability of the lower order to fight it out has been handy for India in recent times.

“When the tail-enders are stubborn, they fight it out there. It makes a massive difference. It did it on the last tour. When Ashwin and Hanuma Vihari batted the whole of the last session to save the game, going into the Gabba and then winning the series,” Shastri noted.

Such performances lift the entire team and provide a psychological advantage in high-stakes series. Shastri believes that the fight shown in this Test could prove crucial for India as the series moves forward.

“It'll lift the Indian team. And for me, the series is on a level peg now and India might just be calling the shots,” he said.

With the series tied at 1-1 ahead of the Boxing Day Test, Shastri emphasised the significance of this moment in the context of the series, particularly with India’s challenging road ahead.

“Massive. They would give anything for a 1-1 result,” Shastri said, reflecting on the early stages of the series.

“The first Test is in Perth, second Test is a day-nighter in Adelaide, and then the third Test in Brisbane. Any overseas team will, you know, settle for a 1-1 score because come Melbourne, come Sydney, I think India will be powerful.”

India’s confidence heading into Melbourne is palpable. Despite being pushed to the brink in the third Test, Shastri believes that India now find themselves in a strong position.

“They've been kept in this series single-handedly by Jasprit Bumrah,” Shastri said. “If the big boys wake up, and step up to the plate which I just get the gut feeling they will, then Australia has a problem on their hands.

“Yeah, they got out of jail but they are not on bail. They are free birds in Melbourne. They can do what they want and come and attack Australia on Boxing Day.”

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