Blink and you shall miss, that was what happened to me. It only took 13 overs for Australia to take the remaining four wickets to complete the series whitewash.

There isn’t much to write about for a day needing only 1 hour. Each of the bowlers took a wicket a piece today, to once again demonstrate the definition of team effort. India were all out for 201.

For Harris and Lyon it gave them their best hauls of the series with 3 and 4 wickets respectively for this innings. Lyon was the man to officially give Australia the cleansweep when he got Yadav out edging to the much maligned Brad Haddin.

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There were very few low lights from the Border-Gavaskar series, one of them was the performance of the top 3. A major part of the problem was the number 3 averaging less than 3.

This resulted in 2/46, 4/27, 3/37, 3/84 and 3/40, amazingly two of those resulted in a 600 run total and a clean sweep. These scores were not too surprising considering this was the first time this top 3 had batted together.

Ideally one would like players to come straight in and perform in every game however this is not how cricket works. An opening pair must be stuck with and given time to settle. In Warner and Cowan the signs have been there, in particular the Perth match where the pair surpassed India’s total in only the forth session of the match.

Warner produced a couple of starts to go with his 180 and also was last man standing in the Hobart loss. Cowan has made a couple of fifties in his four test matches including being unlucky in his debut innings. Both have shown enough to be persisted with.

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Two series have now past since the 47 all out against South Africa. In that time, Australia played out a drawn series in another silly two matches series and are about to clean sweep India.

One of the key issues I identified from the Hobart loss was none of the experienced men stood up. No one should be expecting an inexperienced and unsettled top 3 to perform consistently and that is where the experienced middle order batsmen should be standing up.

This point was particularly important considering two new batsmen were entering the top 3 with David Warner only 2 test matches into his career. Stand up they did, Clarke, Ponting and Hussey were the top 3 leading run scorers for Australia in this series with 626, 544 and 293 runs respectively.
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The 4th day of the 4th and final test brought about the definition of team contribution. So far the big hauls have gone to Pattinson, Siddle, Hilfenhaus and even Starc, however today was the day where Harris and Lyon picked up 5 wickets between them. Finally both bowlers cracked the magical 2 wicket in an innings mark.

Today was like the hangover you have after a big day, there was nothing spectucular like a hattrick, 5-fer or double hundred, instead it was business as usual for Australia as they look to put the final nail in the coffin of India.

The day started with the usual sight of Clarke and Ponting at the crease. Clarke batted like he has all series and once again stamping his authority against Ashwin. He didn’t look happy when he was given out for the last time in this series ending an extraordinary series return of 626 runs at 125.20.
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Planetcricket are pleased to announced the second editor within a week for IC10 (Xbox 360 version)

AbBh has today released his Field Editor. This works similarly to his AC09 version, except this one works on saved games files. This means you can have more enjoyment when batting now with more realistic fields, and no massive gaps in the outfield for easy runs
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