India coach Ravi Shastri, speaking after the team's 2-1 series victory in Sydney on Monday said negative comments coming from miles away were blown away by the wind like, what else, but a "tracer bullet". Moments after India's maiden Test series triumph in Australia, Shastri hit back at critics in typical fashion saying, "I said in Melbourne - I think I mentioned people taking pot shots and firing blanks. I wasn't joking there, because I knew how hard this team had worked. When you fire from there, by the time it crosses the southern hemisphere, it's blown away by the wind like a tracer bullet."from Top Cricketnext News- News18.com http://bit.ly/2Tw3ISf
Bancroft, whose return from a nine-month suspension due to his part in the ball-tampering saga against the Hobart Hurricanes lasted only three balls, didn’t fare much better against the Heat as he took 10 balls to even get off the mark.
The last one year has shown what this side is capable of. They have been good on some days, very good on others and exceptional of and on. They have been beaten but rarely flattened.
Sachin Tendulkar has picked out Kuldeep Yadav and Rishabh Pant as two of the biggest potential stars for Indian cricket in the future after India’s historic series win in Australia.
The Virat Kohli-led Indian cricket team created history on Monday (January 7) when they became the first team from Asia to win a Test series in Australia.
India’s greatest overseas achievement, a Test win in Australia after 71 years of trying and failing, came in front of near empty stands, a fine drizzle calling an end to the Sydney Test, sealing the 2-1 win, with little room for fanfare and no room for footage of that golden moment. But, years, even centuries down the road, it will be there in black and white: Virat Kohli led his band of enforcers where no Indian captain of the past had.