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David Green

The disastrous Indian report card of MS Dhoni’s team at Perth

Got out to a nothing shot having done all the hard work on the first morning, Gautam Gambhir then got a snorter from Mitchell Starc second time around. Run without a Test hundred now extends to two years, 19 Tests and 37 innings.

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The brilliant Australian report card following the Perth Test

The joint-fourth fastest Test ton ever and the quickest ever by an opener. What more can you say? David Warner has taken to Test cricket like a duck to water with two contrasting hundreds and an average of 64 after his first five Tests.

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David Warner’s mayhem has further endangered Duncan Fletcher’s job

Four of the seven quickest hundreds in Test history have come at the Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA) or should it now be renamed the Whacker?!) – three of these have been scored by opening batsmen and indeed are the three quickest hundreds ever scored by openers in Test history.

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Statistics that humiliate Team India

Whilst Brad Haddin would do well to look at his own form before casting aspersions on the fragility or otherwise of India he may have a point — albeit a crass and clumsily made one. 

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Gambhir, Harbhajan and Sreesanth in the worst Test XI of 2011

Four Indians — Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Harbhajan Singh and Shantakumaran Sreesanth find a place in the Worst Test XI of 2011.

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Australia vs India at the SCG – Marks out of 10 for Michael Clarke’s army

After 720 days and 34 innings, Ricky Ponting finally hit his 40th Test hundred. And it was a good one too with a theatrical climax and a desperate dive for the precious final run before the smiling hero emerged with bat aloft and shirt dirtied.

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Team India’s dismal report card from the Sydney Cricket Ground

Predictably tentative dismissal to the third ball of the match before - in the second innings - Gautam Gambhir, finally looking like the batsman that once scored eight hundreds in 10 Tests. Run without a Test hundred now extended to 35 innings

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Michael Clarke proves his detractors wrong – and how!

Rewind 12 months and the reception Michael Clarke received from his home crowd was very different to what he got after his splendid 329 not out at the very same Sydney Cricket Ground.

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Is Team India’s famed batting strength now just a myth?

It was that arch-propagandist Joseph Goebbels

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Michael Hussey cheats the undertaker – yet again!

The coffin was sent back to the undertakers and the priest had an unexpected day off.

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