The visitors have some unfamiliar faces as they look to make it three series wins in a row down under
rriving in Australia in the ember weeks of 2024, the Indian Test team is in an unusual position. They are, in a sense, defending champions. Starting in 1947, Asian teams toured Australia 30 times in a row without winning a series. Most of the time they didn’t come close: Australia won 24, six drawn. It was January 2019 in Sydney, after more than seven decades, that India’s run mountain while leading the series forced the home team to bat for a draw.
The closest they came to being a power around the globe was England in 2021, again leading a series against an old rival 2-1, but this time having a fifth Test to play. At that point the Indian players bailed out with some combination of pandemic anxiety, fatigue, and worries about quarantine.
In that span since 2012, Home India has been a great Test force, and a couple of those recent overseas disappointments going their way would have removed the caveat of the adjective. But it’s interesting talking about the nature of teams given that the components change, and certainly for Away India there has never been a cohesive side. Home India has had Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja rolling through opponents, and needed only a local support cast.
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