Arthur Crabtree wrote:But the difference being that the popularity (and share of the ICC cake) of the game being in decline around the world other than in India, who dominate the wealth and power off the field. That was never true of the West Indies and Australia
alfie wrote:However I wonder if people aren't getting just a little carried away heralding a future of Complete Indian Domination. Beating this - rather impoverished - Australian side deserves credit but perhaps doesn't yet prove they have become an all-conditions super team
alfie wrote:Aargh. Somehow put this (above) on the wrong thread ...don't know how
I'm too lazy to write it all again on the right one. So to continue on the Other Matter...
Indeed congratulations to India on a fine win. As has been said , their first in Australia ( although I do well recall 1985 where they were definitely robbed of a deserved and emphatic victory by a badly timed weather wipeout : Melbourne rather than Sydney that time . Sometimes very patriotic , Australian weather )
alfie wrote:Aargh. Somehow put this (above) on the wrong thread ...don't know how
I'm too lazy to write it all again on the right one. So to continue on the Other Matter...
Indeed congratulations to India on a fine win. As has been said , their first in Australia ( although I do well recall 1985 where they were definitely robbed of a deserved and emphatic victory by a badly timed weather wipeout : Melbourne rather than Sydney that time . Sometimes very patriotic , Australian weather )
However I wonder if people aren't getting just a little carried away heralding a future of Complete Indian Domination. Beating this - rather impoverished - Australian side deserves credit but perhaps doesn't yet prove they have become an all-conditions super team. 1-2 in SA. , 1-4 in England : yes they were competitive in some of those losses ; but they still lost. I think they are improving ; and they have a splendid home record , of course : but I prefer to wait and see how the next year or so treats them before opening Canonization proceedings...
As for predictions involving "decades" : well history tells me all good things come to an end eventually and I will be surprised if any team manages to remain top of the heap for that long. West Indies had a brilliant run for nearly 15 years , and so subsequently did Australia...but longer than that ?
Who knows : I may well be wrong : remind me in ten years if I'm still around and we will see
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