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The Wrap; Australia’s Tour of India, 2017 (Australian analysis) Overs: 23.4 Steven O’Keefe to Lokesh Rahul; 23.5: “Rahul beautifully pushes a short of a length delivery off the backfoot towards midwicket and gets the double, which gives India the win! Rahul is absolutely pumped, jumps in ecstasy.” With that, Australia’s slightly inconsistent but extremely promising tour of India came to an end. This series was one that promised a lot for Australia, but it just wasn’t meant to be. After the first Test, they seemed to have lost the momentum. It was only Steven Smith, who on a consistent basis showed that they aren’t going down without a fight. Throughout the series, Australia seemed to have gained control of the day’s play, but India seemed to get out of the trouble by some absolutely brilliant individual performances. That is exactly what Kohli has been emphasizing on for so long. When the chips are down, there has always been somebody who has stepped up, and that is prob...

My ODI XI With the Champions trophy and IPL just around the corner, there’s a lot of limited overs cricket to be played in the coming months. So it is only fair that I do some sort of justice to the respective formats. Don’t get me wrong though, Test Cricket is still my favorite format. Having already done a Test XI, now it’s time for an ODI XI, followed by a T20 XI, which I will be doing in my next article. Without further ado, let’s have a look at my ideal ODI XI; 1  1)       David Warner (Australia) (Captain) David Warner would feature in most people’s ideal XI’s, be it any format. If there was one format David Warner was left to conquer, it was ODI’S. Till early 2016, Warner was a decent ODI batsman, who would give you the quick start. As the year progressed, he seemed to be going from strength to strength. Having scored 7 ODI centuries in 2016, Warner definitely made a very strong case for himself. To add to that, he had scored those centuries...