Shakya Mitra: Spice missing as old foes clash

It is an uphill task for Aussie bowlers and they must step up in order to avoid a hiding from India

It was famously described as the “final frontier” for Steve Waugh’s all-conquering Australian side of the early 2000s. An India-Australia series was always a much-awaited event on the cricket calendar those days. The giants of the sport against the one team that dared to look them in the eye and compete, with the results to match. Yet a few days away from the start of the Border-Gavaskar trophy, it won’t be unfair to describe the buzz as being a little thanda in comparison to the competitiveness of some of the series that took place in the early and mid-2000s. ...

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Shakya Mitra: Spice missing as old foes clash