First things first.
The purpose of this post is not to analyze why India lost the fourth test match against Australia at Adelaide. But why Australia took five days to beat a deflated India, when they managed to blow away the Indian team well within four days in the previous three test matches. And the third test match was done with within three days!
The following summarizes the conspiracy on the part of the Australian Cricket Team / Cricket Australia, and how India managed to beat them all!
Reason Number One:
Cricket Australia saw that ticket sales were coming down. There were no advertisers. Revenue was affected as the matches were getting over within three or four days. Therefore, the Australian Cricket team was instructed to flog the dead horse a.k.a. The Indian Cricket Team, over five days, instead of the usual three or four.
How India Outsmarted Australia: By ensuring their pathetic performance in the previous three matches were not a "flash in the pan", but a burning lamp, their inispid performance continued, and ticket sales continued to flounder. And we, the general public, were able to watch the cricket match without any ad intervals for the first time in eons! [It is another matter that we were fools to watch the match early in the morning]
With this, Australia couldn't manage extra revenue to beat BCCI's income levels, and thereby India continues to have maximum revenue on the matches organized here. We have truly shown the world who is the boss in the world of cricket, outside the cricket field atleast.
Reason Number Two:
The Australian Cricket team had lot of batsmen who were woefully out of form. And by defeating the Indian Cricket team by an innings in two of the three matches, Australian team lost the opportunity to bat twice! The Indian Cricket team, notorious for their obsession to bat, did a "OC Gaaji", by batting six times, but bowling only four times in the previous three matches.
So the Australian Cricket Team decided to bat twice in the fourth test match when they could have wiped out India by an Innings again.
How India Outsmarted Australia: Though the Australian Cricket Team managed to play twice in the fourt match, they cannot forget the fact that India managed to bat Eight times against Six times of Australia. Our fellows fooled the Australian bowlers and made them bowl eight times, while our brittle bowlers got their rest by bowling only for six innings. [It is another matter that they bowled more balls than the Australian bowlers. But again, six is smaller and smarter than eight, right?]
We Indians are smart. Arent' we?
[Note: The above post is an inspiration from a facebook status posted by a student of mine]
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