Even as India celebrated their maiden 2-1 ODI series triumph over Australia in Australia, legendary Sunil Gavaskar criticised Cricket Australia for giving a meagre cheque of Rs 500 US dollars as prize money
MS Dhoni silenced all critics with his second match-winning knock in a row to help India clinch a historic maiden ODI series win in Australia. Dhoni was undefeated on 87 while Kedar Jadhav
Former Indian cricketer Ajit Agarkar feels that MS Dhoni’s slow innings of 51 from 96 balls was not of much use for Rohit Sharma, who slammed a century at Sydney
Former Australia skipper Ian Chappell opined that the current Indian side has the best bowling attack. However, their batting has been better in the past as has been their fielding.
India coach compared India’s historic Test series win in Australia to the 1983 World Cup triumph as well as the 1985 World Championship win. India won the series 2-1 after the Sydney Test was drawn.
India captain Virat Kohli rated India’s historic 2-1 series win in Australia as his ‘biggest achievement’ till date and added that the win will give the team a different identity.