Australia v India Test series 2017: Brave Aussies live to fight another day

So after another day of the unexpected, in a series of the unexpected, we go to an unexpected decider.

Cummins quickens Australian hearts

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If not a red letter day for Australia, it was at least a red leather day. Pat Cummins on his return to Test cricket took four wickets, and is not done yet.

Smith and Maxwell blaze the trail

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Steve Smith looked to the dressing room at least twice, at 50 and 100, and again as he walked off at stumps, unbeaten. If in Bengaluru he had misguidedly needed an outside opinion about whether or not he was out, it is a long time since he has needed direction about how to stay in. This was his 11th cenury in 21 matches since he become captain, merely 16 months ago. He is Australia's man for all situations, seasons and reasons.

The Centenary Test 40 years on - cricket with style

The way the Melbourne Cricket Club pulled the Centenary Test together moved Marylebone Cricket Club secretary Billy Griffith to remark: "This must be the most magnificent effort ever made by any cricket authority."

Three cheers for the underhand way

Wilt Chamberlain has two prodigious claims to fame, and one at least is verifiable. The first is that he slept with 20,000 women. The other is that one night in Pennsylvania in 1962, playing for the Philadelphia Warriors against the New York Knicks, he shot 100 points in a game of basketball, a record unlikely to be broken.

'Poor' pitch for the first Test? Depends how you spin it

Mumble it after me: it was a crap pitch. Louder? OK, IT WAS A CRAP PITCH. Australia won on a crap pitch.

Kohli down, but not out yet

The first ball Virat Kohli faced as captain of India was from Mitch Johnson at the Adelaide Oval, and it hit him in the head. That was less than two weeks after the death of Phil Hughes, and it  sent an alarmed shiver down every spine, not least Johnson's.

Australia out to rewrite the India story

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This past season, India has played nine Tests at home, for no losses. But Australia's enthusiasm, far from dampened, appears to have been whetted.

If only I'd tried, says Bolt - or played cricket

Pivoting one way on his swivel chair, eight-times Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt said that if only he had been more dedicated when he was young, he might have achieved so much more. "I was reckless," he said.