With the series loss to England on thier home soil, Indian Team was in a great pressure to show a comeback performance. The reason is big for that, couple of years back, till the Eng-India series in England last year, India has been No1 ranked Test side.
In the last 2 years the test series results for India are
0-4 Vs England in England( 4 Matches)
0-4 Vs Australia in Australia(4 Matches)
1-0 Vs WI in WI(3 Matches)
2-0 Vs WI in India ( 3 Matches)
2-0 Vs NZ in India ( 2 Matches)
1-2 Vs England in India( 4 Matches)
2-0 Vs Australia in India ( 4 Matches, with 2 to play)
So, overall India's performance is shortly summarized as below, away and home.
Away : 1-8 ( 11 Matches) W/L - 0.125
Home : 7-2 ( 11 Matches) W/L - 3.5
Overall : 8-10 ( 22 Matches) W/L - 0.80
For a team which was ranked No 1 before these matches were played, is now ranked 4th and 13 rating points behind 2nd ranked England, 12 behind 3rd ranked Australia. If India wins 4-0 and England loses by any margin or draws its NZ series, India have chances to claim No 2 spot by April 1 cut off date of ICC. Hope they will try for it or atleast swap places with Australia in ranking tables.
Coming to the on going Border Gavaskar trophy, India proved its better side of the two in subcontinent in first 2 games. Hope they will continue the show and win the series against the mighty aussies who are without the services of Ponting and Mike Hussey.
Lets have a short review on the performance by these 2 sides so far in this series.
Ashwin - 18 Wickets (9/10)
Clearly Ashwin is the pick of the bowlers for India, he recovered from his bad show against England and proved he is worth for his spot in the team. This made him achieve his career best ranking and rating as well. He is the lone Indian bowler in top 10 ICC rankings for bowlers. If he continues his show surely he will be a long time player for India.
Jadeja -11 Wickets ( 8/10)
Jadeja, who was criticised by many as a player of shorter format and does not fit into longer version, despite his outstanding domestic allround records, had now got chance only to criticize his batting in the longer version and not his bowling. He played a second fiddle to Ashwin and picked up 11 wickets so far in this series.
Harbhajan - 5 Wickets ( 6/10)
Bhajji has not made much of impact in first innings of first tests by just claiming a wicket, though he bowled better than he did against England in Mumbai. In the second innings he got 2 wickets and supported Ashwin well in tandem to knock down the Aussies. In the second test, he bowled exceptionally well in both the innings though he got 2 wickets in 1st innings and went wicketless in 2nd innings ( 10-6-10-0). He piled up pressure on Aussies in the last 3 innings he bowled for India, and as a result they lost wickets to Ashwin and Jadeja.
Bhuavenesh Kumar & Ishant Sharma
Its not a surprise that Kumar and Ishant did not get much of wickets in this series. Both went wicketless in first game. Kumar rocked the top order in 1st innings of 2nd game claiming 3 and Ishant provided the crucial breakthrough by scalping Watson in 2nd innings . Both these got scalps that turned the game in 2nd innings for India.
The batting review will be posted in next post.
Review by Sukumar R
In the last 2 years the test series results for India are
0-4 Vs England in England( 4 Matches)
0-4 Vs Australia in Australia(4 Matches)
1-0 Vs WI in WI(3 Matches)
2-0 Vs WI in India ( 3 Matches)
2-0 Vs NZ in India ( 2 Matches)
1-2 Vs England in India( 4 Matches)
2-0 Vs Australia in India ( 4 Matches, with 2 to play)
So, overall India's performance is shortly summarized as below, away and home.
Away : 1-8 ( 11 Matches) W/L - 0.125
Home : 7-2 ( 11 Matches) W/L - 3.5
Overall : 8-10 ( 22 Matches) W/L - 0.80
For a team which was ranked No 1 before these matches were played, is now ranked 4th and 13 rating points behind 2nd ranked England, 12 behind 3rd ranked Australia. If India wins 4-0 and England loses by any margin or draws its NZ series, India have chances to claim No 2 spot by April 1 cut off date of ICC. Hope they will try for it or atleast swap places with Australia in ranking tables.
Coming to the on going Border Gavaskar trophy, India proved its better side of the two in subcontinent in first 2 games. Hope they will continue the show and win the series against the mighty aussies who are without the services of Ponting and Mike Hussey.
Lets have a short review on the performance by these 2 sides so far in this series.
Ashwin - 18 Wickets (9/10)
Clearly Ashwin is the pick of the bowlers for India, he recovered from his bad show against England and proved he is worth for his spot in the team. This made him achieve his career best ranking and rating as well. He is the lone Indian bowler in top 10 ICC rankings for bowlers. If he continues his show surely he will be a long time player for India.
Jadeja -11 Wickets ( 8/10)
Jadeja, who was criticised by many as a player of shorter format and does not fit into longer version, despite his outstanding domestic allround records, had now got chance only to criticize his batting in the longer version and not his bowling. He played a second fiddle to Ashwin and picked up 11 wickets so far in this series.
Harbhajan - 5 Wickets ( 6/10)
Bhajji has not made much of impact in first innings of first tests by just claiming a wicket, though he bowled better than he did against England in Mumbai. In the second innings he got 2 wickets and supported Ashwin well in tandem to knock down the Aussies. In the second test, he bowled exceptionally well in both the innings though he got 2 wickets in 1st innings and went wicketless in 2nd innings ( 10-6-10-0). He piled up pressure on Aussies in the last 3 innings he bowled for India, and as a result they lost wickets to Ashwin and Jadeja.
Bhuavenesh Kumar & Ishant Sharma
Its not a surprise that Kumar and Ishant did not get much of wickets in this series. Both went wicketless in first game. Kumar rocked the top order in 1st innings of 2nd game claiming 3 and Ishant provided the crucial breakthrough by scalping Watson in 2nd innings . Both these got scalps that turned the game in 2nd innings for India.
The batting review will be posted in next post.
Review by Sukumar R
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