ANALYSIS: Ninety minutes of madness hands India Border-Gavaskar Trophy
It's the sort of shot symptomatic of the type of positive batting that is helping England rewrite the record books at the moment, clumsy but easily explained by a need to take the attack to the opposition bowlers.
The world has not been privy to such a macabre tableau of broken sweepers since Mickey Mouse's Sorcerer's Apprentice splintered his broom into a thousand pieces in the 1940 Disney classic Fantasia., it seemed as though Australia's batters had it in their heads that sweeping was the only option, the shards of Mickey's broken broom multiplying exponentially until sweeping was the only thing they could think of.
But when Steve Smith is out sweeping and barely getting close to hitting the ball, a man whose average in India has dropped to a still magnificent 52.21, perhaps it might be time to keep the bat straight.The damage, 9-48, made it Australia's third worst collapse of nine wickets in the third innings of a Test in history."It wasn't easy," Cummins told the host broadcaster at the post-match presentation.
Yet India showed again how to bat in those conditions, using the feet, getting to the pitch of the ball and, crucially, playing with a straight bat.
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