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Agreed , when it comes to T20 , I guess both the teams are equal in strength . Perera should be pushed up though , if they don't utilize him well then its a waste of a talent . He should be atleast sent 2nd down , he can change matches with his current form.

Exactly. That's what I also think and mentioned earlier in my post. Srilanka will put their best effort to win since they have lost the test and ODI series. Also, the current Srilankan team is quite good for t20 format.

I am sorry for the confusion. It came out because of the Indian perspective and in the Indian context. I stand by it.

Yes, you are right no one will forget them. And If by any chance you guys forget this then English and South African will remind you for sure that why did they not play in this series.

I 100% agree that it would of have been a different story. Having said that now it's effortless to say this for us because results are out. That's another debate that they could face Indian pacer line up or not. I am not sure about Warner due to his poor form ( will back my statement with stats), but Smith can surely tackle them.

If you remember our previous discussion. This one: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.47442724 I was against one year ban( 5-6 test ban was enough) If it wasn't for one year ban then they would be playing last 2 test against India if I am not mistaken.

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I mentioned earlier about both batting line up struggle and bench strength here https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.47952602

Before this series, we were saying that both batting lineups are struggling badly. Be it India or Australia. But in this tour Indian batters played well and won the series. Special mention to team management. who dropped both their top order batsmen and one promising batsman (Prithvi Shaw) got injured.

It's not an easy task to do in the middle of the tour. Bringing Mayank was the brave call or moving middle order batsman to top order, and Debutant Mayank grabbed this opportunity by both hands. But it shows that India got strong bench strength which Australia Lacks by miles right now. this is the main reason IMHO.

Couple of points I raised in reply to your post previously about the pitch. guess you missed it?
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.49055891

I pulled up some records of David Warner and Smith.

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2017 against India

David warner 38,10, 33,17,19,14,56,6

Steve Smith  27, 109, 8,28,178,21,111,17

Smith was in good form but David Warner not really. Brainfade incident was limelight in this series. kohli said in interview with stress that he saw Oz team doing this 2 times by himself and pointed out this with the umpire but no one really believed him.

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Ashes series

Steve Smith was on fire and his peak during the Ashes but Warner didn't perform well according to his reputation despite playing in the home.

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South Africa Tour

David Warner: 51 , 28, 63, 13, 30, 32

Smith :56, 38, 25, 11, 5,7

As you can see pretty average tour for both but my concern here is David Warner due to his form.

Rest is history!

Hard to follow each and every match in between classes, work, crypto so i will stick with t-20 format. Pakistan already lost the series its dead match now.

It's boring day for the cricket fans. On the Jan 11^th we have two match. The third test between SA and Pakistan. I am sure Pakistan is going to lose another one. The performance they showed already in the field can conclude this decision that SA are going to win.

It will be interesting to see the T20 between New Zealand and Sri Lanka. I am hoping Sri Lanka will be a very different team for the T20. They need to forget about the ODIs.

No need to be sorry my friend.

Monkey Gate?

On lighter note: In India's defence India Played with KL Rahul-Murali Vijay and Ravi shashtri was in dressing room. still we manage to win  

IPL 2019 is finalized to be played in India and the opener and last match would be played at Chennai as they had won the IPL finals last year. Due to elections in the country it was quite unclear what will happen but now they cleared the air of happening it in India itself. The schedule will be out in Feb .

Thisara is really playing good. It's his bad luck that Srilanka is not winning after having a batsman like Perera at 6. No one could play a long innings. If a century or at least someone from top order would be able to make 80+ run, the scenery might be different.
NL won the series by 3-0. Now, looking forward to having a winning at T20, lol.

I'm sorry to say but I don't agree with this, in 20-30 years from now I still think people will remember that one of the best batsman in the world at the time of this test series in Smith wasn't playing for Australia and that one of the best opening batsman in the world Warner was also not playing. Don't forget that this ball tampering from the three Australian guys will always be remembered due to it was the biggest thing to happen in Australian cricket so I believe everyone will remember that in this test series where India beat Australia on home soil that two of Australia's best batsman were not playing. Like I have been saying if they were playing it would of been a different story and the series would of been a lot closer then it was.

3rd ODI between NZ and SL , NZ won by huge margin of 115 runs thanks to Taylor and Nicholls who both made centuries and helped NZ to cross 350 runs . Chasing 365 runs, SL was never in the game Perera made highest for SL  80 runs.

Haha true about stupid thingy, not sure about Virat, But will cheer for both teams. Srilanka because it is another sub-continent team and Australia only because of Tim Paine. He's a nice guy, and the nice guy should not come last every time.

Btw my Pakistani friends keep saying the same stuff and they all want to see Aus lose again against Srilanka for the exact same reason.  

I told them only one thing " Laanat hai tum par kanjaro" 

It will for some times but in the long run people will forget about it. May be you and I and those who witnessed it will talk about it that India and Sri Lanka beat Ozs when they were a broken team but the record book will never remember the team strength. In the record book it's always India v Australia 2 - 1

I would like to see Sri Lanka v Australia 2 - 0 

Ozs don't have the golden time anymore. These days Ozs are old horse. But I think still they are able to give fight against Sri Lanka specially when the are the home team.

True! You summed it up all beautifully. after 20-30 years, no one going to remember who played in this test series. except for the result.

Everyone forgot What happened in 2007-08 series and moved on.

That's the point. At the end of the day, no one will remember who played. You have mentioned the golden age of Australia. I used to enjoy every match back in days while nowadays I don't get that excitement.

Well sorry if it came out wrong , I wasn't telling Sri Lankan team is the worst , I just compared Aussies to Sri Lankan team . They have the grit but wasn't able to do anything .

I don't feel the excitement and you know why?  If this was a team with Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne, Jason Gillespie, Steve Waugh, Mark Waugh, Matthew Hayden, Michael Bevan, Adam Gilchrist then I would feel the excitement.

Where is the fun to beat a team who are already beaten first.

Anyway, well done Indian Team. Record is a record.

Agreed but the way Sri Lankan team played cricket against India in Sri Lanka or in India then he's not lying or maybe @absy is Indian too and he saw how helpless was Sri Lanka against India

But after that, they played good cricket.

SriLanka in 2017 -2018 Test cricket

• Won against Pakistan in their backyard ( UAE)2-0
• They beat the SA in a home 2-0
• Won test series against Bangladesh in Bangladesh 1-0
• Draw against Windies in away tour 1-1

After this, they lost miserably against England in the home series. But again, looked very determined in New Zealand though they lost Test series against NZ. One can't deny that they didn't show grit in a first test match.

Its very rude thing to say lol. we shoudn't downgrade Srilankan team like this. Australian bowling attack was very good if not the best. our won because Indian batsmen played well and made shit load amount of runs and Australian batsmen failed to score in flat pitches ( not even one century ).Indian subcontinent cricket history will remember that Virat kohli led the Indian team and they won the first ever Test series in Australia's backyard.
If you look Virat's press conference then you will understand why did he said that, he rightly said that he was not emotionally attached to World cup win. but for this series he was. so he thinks its bigger than World Cup. i don't agree with about bigger win statement but its sound legit. 
 

India deserved to win a series earlier. Sourov Gangulay was close to the win but failed. Dhoni gave India a lot but the only thing- a test series win again Auatralia in Australia. I didn't expect it to happen by Virat, lol. Congrats, anyway.
India played very well. I specially want to appreciate Agarwal, Bumrah and Kuldeep. Don't want to mention the Hero.

What I earlier mentioned, he created the new story in Indian history.