Australia won another silver thingy |

Jarrod looks at Australia winning yet another piece of silverware and the players and things that made it possible.
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[@aniruddhamungekar8663]

Indian cricket team's Annual routine 1. Play ipl 2. Win bilateral series giving fans hope 3.dominating group stages of icc events and qualify for Knockout giving more hopes 4. Loose the Knockout game pretty horribly 5. Repeat . These are kind of thoughts going in my mind Are there any facts in it ?

[@vikranthmelanathur6505]

I would agree w.r.t World Cups, that Team Selection has been a big issue in the post-Dhoni era, particularly during Kohli's captaincy when several players felt insecure with the constant RNG chopping and changing. However one need not take this one-off Test in a random location seriously, right after playing 2 months of intense, world-class T20 league, without match-practice in conditions unfavourable (green top with variable bounce) and with key injuries to your 4 Starters of the last two years - Pant, Bumrah, Iyer and Rahul, not to mention the hard decision to not take Ashwin due to the deceptive grass layer in the first morning. A one-off final in Test Cricket after having played in varied conditions across two years doesn't make sense at all, other than filling up the coffers of a random English ground and turning the eyes of the Indian market to the English Test season, which is something BCCI should have been aware of when the cunning English managed to sway them to host this random final on their shores. Atleast now BCCI should oppose staging the next final in England.

[@anshulsaxena4931]

​@@vikranthmelanathur6505 since when have Iyer,rahul become key test players and also conditions were neutral for both aus and ind it is time for you accept that aus is the best test team at the moment

[@ebadali7751]

​@@vikranthmelanathur6505 bro if we donot take these losses seriously then we will never improve

[@Samir12357]

@@vikranthmelanathur6505 bhai.. You are making the same mistake rohit and team management are doing that is making excuses.. What I have learnt in life is that losers will always make excuses but the winner will own up the mistake and work on it. So at least have a shame to own the mistake ( working on it or not is a later part but at least admit you made wrong decision)

[@ayanchoudhury6697]

@@vikranthmelanathur6505 Aussies are not used to these kind of wickets as well. Plus both teams were playing with Dukes ball (again a neutral object). Conditions stayed true for 5 days and even some of the commentators said that this wicket is behaving more like old school sub continent wicket rather than an english one so stop giving excuses. Every tournmanent has one off final game to decide champions so why bring a different template for WTC? I have more problem with the way teams reach finals, that is by choosing whom to play against and then doctoring the pitches at home conditions.

[@klweth5439]

These montages are the best highlights in cricket. Awesome stuff :D

[@Samir12357]

Death, taxes and Australia wins a trophy..... 😂😂 Among all the languages my man chose to speak facts...

[@vikranthmelanathur6505]

It would have been more impressive (even counting the random one-off nature of the match) for Australia had this match been staged in the sub-continent or not on a green top with variable bounce against a injury-depleted opposition.

[@anshulsaxena4931]

​​@@vikranthmelanathur6505 why in sub continent where conditions would have favoured india and aus was also missing hazlewood and india were lucky to win the toss else margin could have been bigger of victory

[@DjokerFan]

​@@vikranthmelanathur6505 so u want India to win on dustbowls so they can flaunt their fake WTC win. Face it they can't win SENA(except Aus).

[@omerfarooq4642]

All of you are now crying because the conditions weren't favorable for your team, a team which makes these excuses does not deserve to be called Test Champions.

[@omerfarooq4642]

​@@vikranthmelanathur6505Except for Pant, there wasn't any injury setback. Bumrah won't play in tests again, if he recovers. Do you think Iyer or KL would have made any difference? This team was similar to the team that played WTC Final in 2021.

[@garypowell1540]

As an England fan and cricket coach, on balance, I am happy with an Australian victory. The Indian Cricket Board has been displaying a deeply worrying degree of arrogance with regard to India's financial domination of the game, we don't need them also dominating on the pitch. Have no doubt that if Austarian were doing similarly I would be backing India, or anyone but Australia. It is NEVER a good thing when a single country dominates a sport, look at Baseball and American Football for example. Both are great games, but have a small worldwide fanbase, and no international competition worth talking about. Cricket on the other hand has around 6-7 national teams that can beat any other on their day, even the likes of Australia and India with a bit of luck. Money helps especially at the grassroots level, but at the end of the day, cricket is a game mainly made up of individual performances while each team only has 11 players on the pitch with which to play the entire game with. This is a GOOD thing. It means that only having a good enough team, that possesses no more than 3 and sometimes fewer outstanding individuals anything is possible and often happens. Test Match Cricket may be on a relative decline, but is still in the ascendancy as far as entertainment value and interest is concerned. There is no reason why the limited-overs games can not continue to scratch the back of the First Class game for many years to come. This even if it ultimately results in two distinct squads of players playing an essentially similar but still different game of cricket.

[@lolumo]

Interesting how nobody ever had a problem with arrogance back in the 70s when it was just England running the show, or later when Australia and England ran it however they saw fit. The "Imperial" Cricket Council has a long history of bending over backwards to those with power and money. It is futile to expect change

[@Bevan-z6b]

Lol can't wait Ashes to thrash poms again 4-0

[@suroshalam]

​@@lolumo *LOGIC*: they did wrong in the past, now we will wrong , YAYEEE🎉🎉 😂😂

[@lolumo]

@@suroshalam Did you ever wonder why the first 3 WTCs are all in England? India are bad, but not worse than the other two. All the articles and videos you see only attack India, mostly because racism

[@harsh....8993]

@@suroshalam it's just a observation though

[@anuragkaushik8562]

Montages are awesome, music of facts, no noise❤

[@onebigadvocado6376]

Cameron Green is a fielding alrounder and I'll fight anyone who says otherwise. He's an absolute black hole at Gully.

[@SilentHotdog28]

HAHA that is so true, he is an absolute ball magnet.

[@Bevan-z6b]

Lol he is still 23 . His batting has been really awesome to watch. Already had 5 wicket haul and a test ton. And still, We haven't see his best yet.

[@onebigadvocado6376]

@@Bevan-z6b I meant no disrespect to his other two pursuits, but he fields that well I'd pick him if he batted like Glenn McGrath, bowled like Matthew Hayden, and looked like Kerry O'Keefe.

[@AAAAAA-gj2di]

@@onebigadvocado6376 why did you massacre O'Keefe 😢

[@onebigadvocado6376]

@@AAAAAA-gj2di he knows what he did.

[@rohandante]

Fun Fact - Australia also won 2005 ICC Super Series.

[@DjokerFan]

That too against Best of the World😈

[@AAAAAA-gj2di]

@@DjokerFan Daniel Vettori

[@subidadhikari]

Australia and ICC Finals = Perfect duo.

[@prashants5071]

Jinx for Indian test captain He's the only leader who inspired the players to fight tooth and nail to win

[@kiriakoz]

India should play kabaddi only. That is more their level of sport.

[@jacobcarter3546]

As an Aussie I was surprised he didn't get the captaincy after the 2020/21 series. Under Kohli they were out for 36. But under him 2-0 victory.

[@kiriakoz]

@@jacobcarter3546 Indian cricket is all about politics, it’s not a meritocracy. There are caste, class, religious and dressing room dynamics to consider.

[@firstone7800]

​@@jacobcarter3546actual strongest indian team will not be beaten by any other team in thia world .

[@prashants5071]

@@jacobcarter3546 it was miraculous. But people dont look at leadership qualities. They want crowd pleasers.

[@melio_das4543]

2:56 😂😂

[@TA-mb8ip]

dude thought he won it himself

[@melio_das4543]

@@TA-mb8ip As a politician he wanted to be in the spotlight

[@michaeltraeger3761]

best cricket channel, bloody love your work mate. 500k followers by June 12 2024

[@richardwatts6944]

(Verse 1) Captain Patrick, he's our hero, Gonna take the cricket world down to zero, With the spirit of Australia, he will lead, To victory, fulfilling every cricket fan's need. (Chorus) Captain Patrick, he's our champion, Guiding Australia to the Test Championship, He'll swing his bat and take every wicket, With his team, they'll triumph, and the world will witness. (Verse 2) From the Ashes to the grand cricket stage, Captain Patrick commands the field with sage, His leadership, unmatched and bold, Inspiring his teammates, their talents unfold. (Chorus) Captain Patrick, he's our champion, Guiding Australia to the Test Championship, He'll swing his bat and take every wicket, With his team, they'll triumph, and the world will witness. (Bridge) With the baggy green on their heads, They're united, forging a path ahead, Through grit and determination, they strive, For Australia's glory, they'll never subside. (Verse 3) In every match, they fight as one, Captain Patrick's leadership second to none, They field, they bat, they bowl with grace, Conquering opponents, leaving a lasting trace. (Chorus) Captain Patrick, he's our champion, Guiding Australia to the Test Championship, He'll swing his bat and take every wicket, With his team, they'll triumph, and the world will witness. (Outro) Captain Patrick, he's the hero of the day, Leading Australia to cricket's ultimate display, They lift the trophy, the pride is clear, For they are the Test Champions, cheered far and near. Chat GPT :)

[@ramanujbaruah2200]

lol, nice song

[@AJWRAJWR]

Oh, a Roger Ramjet pastiche. Interesting.

[@iankearns774]

Nah. Not even close to Smudges captaincy ability. Woke flog who cost Langer his job. I cant stand him and I am an Aussie.

[@AJWRAJWR]

@@iankearns774 These days they wouldn't even let someone become captain unless they conform to the woke agenda.

[@XaviRonaldo0]

What a find Scott Boland has been. I just love the way he's always at the stumps always looking to take wickets. None of that boring McGrath line and length crap.

[@vikranthmelanathur6505]

His action reminds me so much of Courtney Walsh (and what a handful he was in his day), with a twist in that he is a skiddy customer due to his height. He reminds me a lot of Indian fast bowlers bowling in India such as Shami and Umesh with how he always attacks the stumps, seams it either ways and when there is even a slight variable bounce in the pitch, he becomes unplayable. It was ironical that the Indian seamers were trying to pitch it up in the corridor and swing the ball when the best fast bowler in the match was attacking the stumps - the Indian way!

[@iankearns774]

Dominated at Shield level on the lifeless MCG dropin pitches fir 4 or 5 years. He earnt his spot the hard way. If Pattinson wasnt injured all the time he may not have got that look in. Pattinson was on his day as good as Cummins.

[@insertname1841]

Not picking Ashwin turned out to be a problem for India as the spinners were able to take 24% of the wickets even though only 2 out of the 10 bowlers were spinners. Furthermore, Ashwin would have added stability in the lower order and do a better job than the top order.

[@SilentHotdog28]

I was mindblown that they didn't pick him, I saw the team list and almost called it there and then that Australia would win.

[@superstar_h_gamer5211]

The problem with the bumrah logis is that yes he's our best fast bowler but with the recent injuries i don't think he should be playing tests anymore. I don't think his body can keep up. Pants absence is more of a loss actually

[@VV-on8gf]

Great video. Australia were undoubtedly the best team in this cycle. Hurts as an Indian fan to make the final twice and lose both times. A WTC win would’ve been the perfect ending for these group of players who have been brilliant over the past 5 to 6 years but a lot of them are clearly on the decline. Would like to see you make a video and give your thoughts on where India’s test team goes from here, who needs to go and who needs to come in

[@lolumo]

That Sharad Pawar push was the turning point where child me went from seeing Australia as a team that was just too goo to seeing them as arrogant morons.

[@brijesh7]

But it looked pawar stood there for faar too long even after giving the trophy didn't seem to be moving

[@ramitchatterjee9626]

Think when a politician pushed indian football captain sunil chetri away after he won the trophy. Because that politician wanted to get into the photo instead of the deserving captain. Aussies did the right thing. This podium is not for politicians to show their faces on camera. It belongs to the players, it belongs to the real champions.

[@lolumo]

@@ramitchatterjee9626 I did criticise that different politician. What an Indian player does with an Indian politician is different to a bunch of foreigners visiting India and insulting our nation

[@failuretolaunch4571]

What I don't understand is why people think a best of three finals would be better? The final is about jeopardy, it gives the lesser of the two teams a chance to win. I am not insinuating that Australia were the lesser team, but this whining from India has got on my nerves.

[@vikranthmelanathur6505]

That could make sense in a Sport that has some semblance of Standardization in playing conditions, balls used etc.Test cricket has so many randomly changing variables from weather conditions, to nature of pitches, to balls used, to team compositions, not to mention constant format switching all leading to difficulty in acclimitization that small sample sizes i.e. one-off or even two tests cannot enable us to come up with deciding on the best.

[@anshulsaxena4931]

​@@vikranthmelanathur6505 aus were favourites before the match started and deserves to win

[@lilwang2]

yeah 1 game finals are standard across every sport. And test cricket would have to have the least deviation of results vs how well a team played in all sport because it goes over 5 days. ODI, t20 let alone soccer or rugby have far more random results with the worse team winning much more regularly

[@bonaranjha]

the whining started from david warner initially. he wanted best of 3. rohit sharma is not a good captain. he wobt accept the loss. sorry that gill was not out i was pissed the ball clearly touched the ground but other than that australia deserved to win as they foght harder than us

[@MohammedShafiq-id5ov]

​@@vikranthmelanathur6505 that argument can apply in the shorter version of the game such as T20 fact is a final is the penultimate moment and a team should be prepared for all variables in mind, the better team won simple

[@Gramsciii]

Indian cricket team = psg best players rich af but no trophies

[@sniperfi4532]

Team of champions isn’t going to beat a champion team.

[@suryanshbiswas]

fr

[@vikranthmelanathur6505]

Silly to compare a League Team (PSG) to an International Team playing an International Sport across different conditions. A better comparison would be RCB from the IPL.

[@callumbishop1193]

All that money and still India can’t win

[@joshdykgraaf2161]

Well that seems to be part of the problem, when social media influence/power and money making ability of players start to influence team selection, things aren't going to go well.

[@irfanpunter6976]

We blindly worship our cricketers as Demi gods but the fact is our team already feel as if they are gods of the game and stopped playing the game properly! All they need is money and fame but not the game and it’s improvement! Our BCCI must be blamed cuz we don’t want icc trophies but need all the money from ipl! Seriously rohit said why after ipl final why not after or why not before! Lol ipl is an Indian event of cricket but icc Is international!! This is our knowledge on international cricket! I agree bcci have lot of money and influence on cricket but no one are permanent! Soon some other country will have money and they will dominate that doesn’t make ICC lower than there own country cricket! Next important point is why not best of 3? Lol seriously are we playing 3 50-50 odi final for 3 matches? Or at least ipl or is there any big tournament with best of 3? For example FIFA World Cup or Wimbledon?? So all are just silly reasons! We only get one shot and one opportunity and we couldn’t grab it because we didn’t concentrate on test which is actually the soul of game cricket!

[@irfanpunter6976]

Final verdict MONEY DOESNT GIVE ICC TROPHIES!

[@vikranthmelanathur6505]

What has money got to do with winning? All you need is 15 professional cricketers, and conditions in your favour, and opposition suffering from injuries to their key players. Test Cricket has so many variables at play, whatwith different balls, conditions, oppositions, lack of match practice and now the constant format-switching that it hardly constitutes a Professional Sport imo. There is a reason Test Cricket has always been played as a Series with multiple matches to decide the best. A one-off match, right after playing 2 months of Intense T20 league, and with 4 Starters injured (Rishabh Pant, Bumrah, Rahul, Iyer) and having to drop your best Spinner Ashwin for the sake of Team balance on a green top with variable bounce. You look like an African-West Indian, supposedly some of the best gifted athletes in the world genetically. Your argument is as stupid as suggesting 'All that Athletic Genes and still WI cannot win'.

[@vikranthmelanathur6505]

​@@irfanpunter6976 Stop this BS that Test cricket is the soul of the game, the game evolves just like Humanity does, unfortunately some people still live in the Medieval and Colonial ages. Test Cricket with all its numerous variables in terms of different balls, conditions, lack of match practice, injuries, format switching etc. with such a lack of Standardization is probably the least Professional Sport on this planet.

[@uditshivaram6538]

You genuinly seem to have something against australia, its almost as if everyone else has to make a mistake for australia to win a game, they are the best team in the world, admit it

[@someonejustsomeone1469]

The thing is that India didn't even try to draw the game, instead going for almost 6 rpo at the start of the second innings despite losing wickets.

[@98.951]

india could have also easily drawn the last wtc final vs nz as well but they went for counterattack and lost the game instead but tbh i think draw is just boring it's good that they are going for winning

[@DjokerFan]

​@@98.951 losing is far more boring tbh. I would want my team to play negative and share the trophy than playing irrationally

[@bonaranjha]

​@@DjokerFan100 percent i wanted a draw. atleast pujara shd valued his wicket. if india played a draw we would be more than happy

[@vikranthmelanathur6505]

Probably due to the variable bounce which could have resulted in the team management hastily resorting to the Kohli trademark phrases: 'Show Intent' & ' There is a ball with your name on it....', no wonder we saw Pujara getting out in such an uncharacteristic way in the 2nd innings when he was looking comfortable. Rohit went back to his pre-2019 trademark of looking extremely comfortable and throwing it away with a random shot. Virat's impulsive nature in swinging, seaming conditions can never be reliable and is a only matter of time of getting out to the wide delivery on the 6th stumpline or the surprise ball that comes in to get out lbw . All those starts and nobody went on to get a hundred, they seemed to have forgot that it was Rishabh Pant and the likes of Sundar, Iyer, Jadeja, Ashwin, Axar, Shardul etc. who have won us crucial Tests home and abroad in the last 4 years. Also shows the value of Rohit's and Rahul's excellent contribution in our last England tour when we lead 2-1 (should have won the rained out first Test as well) and lost a golden opportunity to close it out thanks to Shastri wanting to sell his book to an audience during the 4th Test and inviting COVID to the support staff, and Virat & Rohit refusing to heed the words of Ganguly and finish the 5th test due to their hurry to participate in the IPL in September 2021.

[@francissreckofabian01]

Less than 100 hours to go!!! Slow over rates??? Surely losing to a very weak Indian team at home was the biggest problem.

[@gaurav.anirbandutta]

This is what happens when you prioritize IPL

[@latenightlogic]

Would love if someone pointed out how pointless this so called championship is

[@royalboy850]

Chokers India

[@soubhikdey4580]

Major miss for pant

[@firstone7800]

againat dhoni this will never be possible 🤣🤣🤣

[@AAAAAA-gj2di]

Dhoni holds the record for most ICC tournament losses. Not to mention his poor defensive captaincy in test cricket was too soft. This isn't T20 cricket where you can make batsmen err by using defensive strategies

[@firstone7800]

@@AAAAAA-gj2di anyone excpet choker sharma australia would have had 0 chance

[@AAAAAA-gj2di]

@@firstone7800 you’re deluded

[@firstone7800]

@@AAAAAA-gj2di same you are deluded aswell. you clown how would a nation having 10 best cricketing team in a domestic tournament lose to a team like. australia. you clown

[@vikranthmelanathur6505]

@@AAAAAA-gj2di Dhoni was simply overworked as a Captain-Wicketkeeper-Batsman, playing 3 formats of the game for a billion strong, cricket mad nation with ridiculous media pressure, besides the intense nature of captaining in the IPL which not many have coped with. He is the most capped Captain-Wicketkeeper in the history of the game, including 60 Tests and nobody even comes close to him. It was ridiculous what was expected out of him and I feel that only made him jaded and defensive towards the long format of the game, particularly after Coach Kirsten left and the senior players refused to retire. I feel he would have done a much better job as a Test Captain with the bowling resources Kohli had at his disposal in the form of peak Bumrah, Ashwin, Jadeja and the much improved Ishant Sharma, Shami and Umesh at home and most importantly Bharat Arun who is such an underrated bowling coach.

[@jaymehta27]

Sharad pawar getting pushed 🏏🦗

[@wiseone1013]

I can see them getting better still and I predict they will beat England in the Ashes. I don't like many Australian cricketers but I respect that they consistently win. David Warner is a massive cnut imho and would like to see that low class jackass no more. Labu-shane is pure class but it is sad that South Africa is losing much of it's talent to England New Zealand Australia and others.

[@iankearns774]

He came to Australia as a kid. He played all his cricket here. He is an Aussie 100%.

[@Lathi33]

shouldn't there be a rotation of final venues to be fair to non-sena teams, especially the asian ones? coming to the final, i never had a hope anyway as an indian fan. i knew they would lose.😄😄

[@digantatalukdar668]

It should happen at a neutral venue, imagine ind playing the final in nagpur, what would the opposition even be able to do.

[@anshulsaxena4931]

tell me a neutral venue which is neutral for both aus and india

[@digantatalukdar668]

@@anshulsaxena4931 why do u want to see an ind team win a wtc title in home, Ind of today can win away test matches unlike before

[@anshulsaxena4931]

@@digantatalukdar668 yes that is why ind have lost last 4 test matches in sena countries unable to take 20 wickets

[@anshulsaxena4931]

@@digantatalukdar668 I am saying eng was the most neutral venue possible for aus vs ind

[@James40000]

Please don’t say “winningest”- you’re not American

[@vikranthmelanathur6505]

Jarod when it comes to Batting Averages, I don't understand how you are overlooking your own previous observations w.r.t the flat conditions of Pakistan and some series in Australia (or for that matter New Zealand for the most part in the last decade) when compared to say the constantly challenging conditions faced by the likes of South Africa and India in the last two cycles. One quick look at the Team batting and bowling averages even in the bowling era from 2018-2021 will suffice. Not to mention your own previous observations about the lack of context about the variable nature of conditions, opposition quality etc. in common run-of-the-mill, supposedly 'Statistical Analysis' that is everywhere these days. Merely comparing averages in a sport like Test cricket with so many random varibles seems as meaningful as was comparing basic stats like Runs and Wickets in the past. Surely Cricket can do better with Advanced metrics like NBA, MLB etc. hav done in the last decade or so, to the extent that the game's followers themselves have bought into it bigtime (you probably also know about Realgm forums etc. besides youtube channeks like Thinking Basketball etc.)

[@JarrodKimberYT]

I did mention it actually, I said that Australia is a fairly high scoring place, and so you expect Australia to be higher. But they actually had some spicier wickets in this cycle at home, and India. But as Leago has pointed out, the average differential does the bulk of the work here. I think you'd find it hard to argue Australia has been the best batting team (albeit in a weak era) in this cycle.

[@vikranthmelanathur6505]

@@JarrodKimberYT Yes broadly speaking one would hope that Average differential would give us a clearer picture, but then again it has the same issue that Allrounders' Average differential (which is commonly quoted to rate Allrounders these days) has - namely that the difference in Bowling Averages across Teams or Allrounders for that matter is smaller than the difference in Batting Averages, thereby the stat tends to favour Teams playing in conditions favouring Higher Batting Averages (namely Australia or Pakistan in this cycle) and 'Batting' Allrounders like Sobers and Kallis over the 'Bowling' Allrounders like Imran Khan, Hadlee, Jadeja, Shakib, Kapil (Dev never had a chance anyways slogging out in India with mediocre bowling support and going for quick runs at No. 7 or 8 thereby hurting his Not outs among other factors) etc. The other problem is the very nature of WTC cycle, where every team isn't playing everyone else, thus teams that get to play on the highways of Pakistan or say greenways of New Zealand in the past will naturally have higher averages. Meanwhile South Africa has been rolling up Greentops (with occasionally ensuring variable bounce in the middle of the pitch) and India and Bangladesh have been rolling 'Smart'Turners just because they feel they cannot afford draws on flat pitches like in the 2002-2016 era (with the occasional exception ofc.). Toss being the other issue on flat decks in India where pitch starts cracking up from the 3rd day, as well as in New Zealand where pitch gets better and better for batting as the test goes on. I will not even bring up England what with their random lottery weather (so many instances of Tests played in relatively bright sunshine suddenly being decided in a session because the clouds decided to show up) and they have also been fairly rolling moderate Greentops since the new Dukes' balls in 2012. Anyways as was expected they seem now to be in favour of flat pitches now that Stokes and McCullum have realized it is pointless to expect their young batsmen bred on T20 and in such a successful white-ball program, to even get to half the level of Joe Root. But then again this has mostly worked for them the last year or so when they won the Toss and forced the initiative. I sometimes find it hard to call this sport a Professional Sport with such a lack of Standardization Just oh so many variables, and let me not even get started with the effect important player injuries have on entire Test Series not to mention the lack of match practice for visiting teams or for that matter even home teams these days who barely get to play first-class games. The more I think the more I feel I would rather have the old 4 years' unofficial cycle of the past, where atleast the teams got to play more or less everyone else home and away, and then maybe add in best-of-3 Test Series for a month in the usual ICC event window in October-November. Maybe the powers-that-be can find a month-long window over a 4 year period than for a 2 year cycle, and that Final Test Series could even be marketed better than this random one-off match in England, right after the IPL and before the English Test Season and their Hundred.

[@ankitshrivastav4455]

Noticed a pattern in ur videos : any other country winning is almost everytime is by luck except when it is india.

[@vikranthmelanathur6505]

The sport itself has so many variables, and to overcome that atleast a 3-5 Test match series is required to determine the best team.

[@odelayrowemonkey2145]

you got a like for Travis Head Redemption. awesome!

[@ontisalaga1789]

The same story again.

[@thomas316]

India are the team of the future...and they always will be. 🤷‍♂️

[@odelayrowemonkey2145]

and here come the Ashes.. bring it on! Strayaaaa

[@ObeySenSei]

Travis HEAD is you DADDY jarrord and all you POMMIES 😂

[@Bevan-z6b]

152 in Ashes, This is Head favorite number

[@ObeySenSei]

@Leago Mnguni Nah he is more of a POMMIE and Indian fan girl than an Aussie 🤭😂😂

[@vikranthmelanathur6505]

Hah, Head is no doubt in the ball-striking form of his life, but he has a very peculiar weakness- bouncers into his ribcage from over the wicket, just watch England pepper his ribcage and watch him awkwardly flop around finally getting out to an awkward pullshot to short-fine leg or legslip or deep square-leg. India made a foolish blunder not to go for that strategy early on in the 1st innings despite knowing his weakness, just to follow the cliche of bowling full in England, something their bowling coach himself admitted. England will not repeat that mistake. Just wait and watch man. Oh and if anyone is a 'DADDY' of Test Batting it should be and will be Steve Smith, I find it funny that you overlooked him.

[@odelayrowemonkey2145]

Scotty B 6 for 7 what??