81 All Out - A Cricket Podcast

When Australia conquered the Final Frontier

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In the latest episode of the podcast we look back on Australia's tour to India in 2004-05 - when Adam Gilchrist led the visitors to their first series win in India in 35 years. Australia have won just one Test in India since - and will hoping to improve that record in the upcoming four-Test series.

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Talking Points:

  • How 2004 was in many ways the sequel to 2001
  • If McGrath won't get you, Gillespie must
  • Shane Warne's finest hour in India
  • The emergence of Michael Clarke - and a special Bangalore hundred
  • Adam Gilchrist's measured brutality
  • Damien Martyn's expertise against spin
  • When Kumble rocked Australia on day 1 in Chennai
  • Virender Sehwag's unforgettable 155 - and the match that promised so much
  • A curious case of 'greenwicketitis' in Nagpur
  • Was Nagpur really an outlier pitch? Or was it just magnificent bowling?
  • The most exciting Test of that series - on a raging turning in Mumbai
  • Murali Kartik's moment, and the liberating Tendulkar-Laxman partnership
  • Do the current Australian team have a bowling attack to win in India?

    • Participants:

    Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee)

    Prashant DP (@prashantdptweet)

    Mahesh Sethuraman (@cornerd)

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    Related:

    • True colours - Adam Gilchrist - Amazon
    • The balls of the century - Shane Warne to VVS Laxman - Sharda Ugra - The Cricket Monthly
    • Anatomy of a classic - Virender Sehwag on his 155 in Chennai - ESPNcricinfo
    • Once upon a twinkle-toed debut - Siddhartha Vaidyanathan - ESPNcricinfo
    • Wisden Reports - Australia in India 2004-05 - ESPNcricinfo
    • John Wright's Indian Summers - Amazon
    • India lose 35-year-old home record - Sharda Ugra - India Today
    • Justin Langer chats with Gideon Haigh and Peter Lalor - Part 1, Part 2
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