bhaveshgor wrote:the point is Adi the only think Kohli is achieving is making everyone hate him and the Indian teams.
if he does it too much it will have an unifying effort in making the opposition team play better, not sure india actually want the opposition to play better overseas against them considering how hard it is to win overseas in the first place.
reporter: Virat, what was it about this Australian team that made them your toughest challenge over all these tests.
Virat: I think they, they had the belief of making things happen in these conditions. It's something that I sensed in their body language, in the way they played their cricket. They believe that they can, you know, win sessions and win situations and they are willing to enjoy the challenge, that was the most important thing and the most challenging thing for us.
Where teams really lose their morale once they lose a test match in India, but they kept bouncing back and they had the desire to compete throughout and that's why they are the number two side in the world. You know, you expect that from Australia, once they get a sniff they would put you under pressure, but you know, the way we responded I'm really proud of that as well. But I would say the relentlessness in their desire to make things happen in these conditions was probably the reason why they kept giving us, you know, a great fight til the end of this test match, so a lot of credit goes to them.
Reporter: Virat you said before the first test in Pune that a lot of the Australian players were really good friends with you off the field, has that changed during this series or is that just heat of the battle stuff that's gone on here?
Virat: No it has changed for sure. I, I thought that was the case but it has changed for sure. you know, as I said, in the heat of the battle yes, you want to be competitive but I've been proven wrong. The thing I said before the first test, that has certainly changed and you won't hear me say that ever again.
yuppie wrote:Jadeja had a great series, but stats wise bowling was it any better than Lyons? Indeed all 4 spinners had pretty similar series stats wise. Ashwin being the worse.
But batting wise Smiths 3 hundreds marks his performance out from his peers. 6 hundreds in total for the series, 3 scored by one player. 20% more runs than anyone else.
I guess the winning team has to have the player of the series. But who would be the first person from either team that you would pick after this series in these conditions. Im guessing it would be Smith and not Jadeja.
ddb wrote:Here's what was actually said.
Reporter: Virat you said before the first test in Pune that a lot of the Australian players were really good friends with you off the field, has that changed during this series or is that just heat of the battle stuff that's gone on here?
Virat: No it has changed for sure. I, I thought that was the case but it has changed for sure. you know, as I said, in the heat of the battle yes, you want to be competitive but I've been proven wrong. The thing I said before the first test, that has certainly changed and you won't hear me say that ever again.
yuppie wrote:Jadeja had a great series, but stats wise bowling was it any better than Lyons? Indeed all 4 spinners had pretty similar series stats wise. Ashwin being the worse.
But batting wise Smiths 3 hundreds marks his performance out from his peers. 6 hundreds in total for the series, 3 scored by one player. 20% more runs than anyone else.
I guess the winning team has to have the player of the series. But who would be the first person from either team that you would pick after this series in these conditions. Im guessing it would be Smith and not Jadeja.
Adi wrote:yuppie wrote:Jadeja had a great series, but stats wise bowling was it any better than Lyons? Indeed all 4 spinners had pretty similar series stats wise. Ashwin being the worse.
But batting wise Smiths 3 hundreds marks his performance out from his peers. 6 hundreds in total for the series, 3 scored by one player. 20% more runs than anyone else.
I guess the winning team has to have the player of the series. But who would be the first person from either team that you would pick after this series in these conditions. Im guessing it would be Smith and not Jadeja.
Jadeja had the highest wickets (25) as compared to Lyon (19) , O'Keffe (19) , Ashwin (21). His average per wicket (19.58) was also less than 3-4 runs as other spinners.
Jaddu also scored 127 runs , two of which were very important 50's.
Smith scored 499 runs.
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