History Rewritten , Australia Beaten.

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Anurag Mallick
Jan 20, 2019   •  1 view

History. Sounds like a very heavy word , isn't it? Not only does it carry a weight but also carries a lot of prestige and value.

Talking about history , history is created to begin something called legacy. When something special , some like never before happens , it becomes history. Continuing it from where it ended is legacy. Talking about history and legacy , sport has both.

When we talk about sport , it has history and legacy both. Especially Cricket. Cricket has become a household sport.

Every child at one point dreams to become a cricketer.

Talking about history and legacy in Cricket , there is one nation that has had it's own history and turned that into legacy. That one nation which always comes in to our mind , when we talk about cricket and it's history is Australia.

Australia has been one such nation , which has played the game with complete perfection. Talk about any aspect , and you will find Australia in it.

Talk about batsman and batting , they've had the best batsmen to ever play the game of cricket , DON BRADMAN.

Talk about bowling and bowlers , they've had the best bowlers to ever play the game of cricket , DENNIS LILLEE , SHANE WARNE and the list just goes on and on.

DENNIS LILLEE had set a bench mark for the bowlers all over the world.

Shane Warne has been one of the Spin Wizzards the game has ever witnessed with over 700 test wickets.

Talk about wicket keeping and they've had wicket keepers like ADAM GILCHRIST. Talk about finisher and they've had MICHEAL BEVAN.

Talk about captains and they've had the best captain's like Allan Border , Steve Waugh , Ricky Ponting and Micheal Clarke who've won the prestigious Cricket World Cup for Australia in 1987 , 1999 , 2003 , 2007 and 2015 respectively.

Now , for every nation playing cricket and all the cricketer's who've played , are playing and will play have had , have and will have a dream of playing Australia , defeating Australia and most importantly in Australia.

Out of all the Nations that have played the game , there are a very few nation's which have been able to give them a very tough competition , and much more importantly have defeated them at their own backyard. Nations such as India , England , South Africa and New Zealand have been on the other side , on the winning side against Australia in Australia.

Talking about India , it has created History. India has done something that it always wanted to do. To defeat Australia in Australia in a test series and a bilateral ODI series.

One captain after the other , one team after the other have tried their best but have been out played. It was different this time around. The mindset and the approach was different. It was completely positive. The preparation had been started for more than an year.

It takes something special , something perfect , complete and all-round performance. It required a team effort and not individual efforts.

Performances came in from all the ends. May it be the Batting , Bowling and Fielding departments. When it came to batting , India had centuries from Chesteshwar Pujara (3) , Virat Kohli (1) and Rishab Pant (1). When it came to bowling , India had 5 wicket hauls from Jasprit Bumrah , Mohammed Shami and Kuldeep Yadav. The pace trio namely Jasprit Bumrah , Ishant Sharma and Mohammed Shami who became the highest wicket takers by a trio in a calendar year with 136 wickets.

With a complete team effort , India made history. India won a test series in Australia after 71 years for the very first time. It became the first Asian team to defeat Australia in Australia. Indian won 2-1.

Now coming to the One dayers , India was yet to win a bilateral series against Australia in Australia. They came in with a positive mind set after winning the test series. But the result of the first one day had hinted a different story. Australia won by 34 runs despite the century from Rohit Sharma which went in vain. India were down 1-0. It was a do or die situation at the Adelaide oval.

With a target of 299 , it was a tough job ahead of India. Tougher the situation , better the performance from Virat Kohli. Kohli took things in his hands and scored a match winning hundred.

Although he got out right after scoring the hundred , it was now MS Dhoni's turn to take India home. The veteran kept his calm and with a sensible partnership with fellow Wicket Keeper , Dinesh Keeper , won the match for India number scoring the winning runs. The finisher finished the game in style.

It was now time for the series decider in Melbourne. India had won the toss and elected to bowl. It was Yuzvendra Chahal's turn to burst on to the occasion. He ran through the Australian batting line up by picking 6 wickets. He ended up with the figures of 6-42 , the first spinner to do so.

India had a target of 232 to win the match and the series for the first time. With 3 wickets down for 113 , It was again on MS Dhoni and Kedhar Jadhav to finish things off and they did so. Both of them had a crucial partnership of 121 runs with Kedhar scoring 61* and MS scoring 87* respectively. With this , India won a bilateral series against Australia for the very first time by winning the series 2-1.

MS Dhoni was adjudged the Man of the series as he scored 3 consecutive fifties in 3 matches. He had won a Man of the series after 7 years.

It takes something very special and perfect to rewrite the history , to change the legacy. India had it. India had done it. India won the test and One day series 2-1.

Here's congratulating Team India for winning the Test and ODI series. Thank you Virat and Co. You've made us proud. You've made the nation proud!

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