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Text: Daniel Laidlaw |
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In accordance with Australia's bowling, India's series batting was split into two distinct phases - pre-Laxman and post-Laxman. Before the series-changing partnership between Laxman and Dravid in the second innings of the second Test, India batted without confidence as Australia's bowlers successfully implemented their plans. During and after it, India registered two totals that forced Australia to come from behind rather than make the running. Generally, India's batting took a while to become used to Australia's attack but once it did resembled an impenetrable wall. Laxman made the difference, removing much of the run-scoring burden from the established stars. |
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Shiv Sunder Das 173 runs at 28.8: Didn't receive the necessary breaks early in the series but displayed the temperament to make him a success against the Aussies: technically secure while hungry for runs. |
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VVS Laxman 503 runs at 83.8: Easy to see now why the Australians held him in high regard. |
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Sourav Ganguly 106 runs at 17.7: However legitimate the criticism of Ganguly, you cannot argue with the results. |
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India had an abnormally high turnover of personnel in its bowling department considering it won the series. Mostly this was caused by injury but also because it opted to change its left-arm support spinner in each Test. Used nine different specialist bowlers during the series. Fortunately it did not matter a great deal because the wicket-taking responsibility was largely accepted by one man - Harbhajan. The rest of the attack became a crew to his efforts. |
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Harbhajan Singh 32 wickets at 17: Harbhajan was India's bowling attack.Harbhajan produced a one-man show. |
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Javagal Srinath Srinath and Agarkar played the first Test before being stuck by injury and illness respectively. |
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