India Rising

Gavin gives a lesson on how to take on the Aussies: Interesting read. Makes sense.

I’ve been reading your comments in the press after the Twenty20 World Cup win and till the halfway stage of the Future Cup, and I am sorry to say you’ve gotten it all wrong.

And this is placing pressure on your game, at a time when you need consistency of performance, and a galvanized attitude, to be successful against Australia.

Three things have been common to your opening matches: open aggressiveness, verbal sledging, and a belief that you are standing up to Australia.

What you need to understand is that these three things are not about physical actions, but about a mental attitude.

I love the aussie attitude. Even though they come across as arrogant and dominating, I feel that they have every right to do so given their display over the last 10 years or so. They have dominated EVERY single cricket side, and have not let anyone come close to them. Blips like the Ashes defeat in 2005 or the Hadley-Chappell defeat earlier this year, were minor blips from which they have come back strongly and annihilated their opposition. Whenever they have lost, they have fought till the very end. They have never given up on any of the occasions.

In the current series against India, they dominated the first 3 matches, and the Indians