Quote from: SATWAT on January 17, 2024, 08:54:54 PM

Quote from: JSRAW on January 17, 2024, 06:32:56 PM

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For test cricket, well look at it this way.

BIG-3 and others

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I am sorry if I am hurting your feelings as I have no intention to talk about this topic because I have feeling this all is useless but as you saying again and again India beats Australia in last few years again and again then I found the reason about this, so please give some details about this as well because you better understand cricket and all things than me hopefully you will give correct view why Australians are losing again and again.

Most of the time Australians are happy to do business with the teams which are giving them good profit and currently India mean profit in cricket, so just because of this we have Australians losing again and again against India in last one decade.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1547170

Nah, don't worry about it. It's all good.

You have to understand the context behind Clarke's statement. This BGT series came after Sand Paper Gate where everyone including Australian fans were shitting on the Aussie cricket team due to their behaviour in South Africa. So under Tim Paine, these guys for a change played a nice boys role, Which meant no sledging or Pack of Wolf tactics (they got this name under Ponting and Clarke).

On this tour, Indian batters were wearing down their celebrated bowling attack of Starc-Cummins-Hazelwood-Lyon and Indian bowlers were outbowling them in every way. The final scoreline was 2-1 in favor of the Indians but it would've been 3-1 if not for rain, it came to assist Australia in Sydney when they were asked to Follow-on and were behind 300 runs.

Another point regarding IPL. I've said this many times, The IPL franchises will line up and start a bidding war for any player, given they are performing against India or better thrashing them in a contest.