When Australia conquered the Final Frontier

81 All Out - A Cricket Podcast

In the latest episode of the podcast we look back on Australia's tour to India in 2004-05 - when Adam Gilchrist led the visitors to their first series win in India in 35 years. Australia have won just one Test in India since - and will hoping to improve that record in the upcoming four-Test series.

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Talking Points:

• How 2004 was in many ways the sequel to 2001
• If McGrath won't get you, Gillespie must
• Shane Warne's finest hour in India
• The emergence of Michael Clarke - and a special Bangalore hundred
• Adam Gilchrist's measured brutality
• Damien Martyn's expertise against spin
• When Kumble rocked Australia on day 1 in Chennai
• Virender Sehwag's unforgettable 155 - and the match that promised so much
• A curious case of 'greenwicketitis' in Nagpur
• Was Nagpur really an outlier pitch? Or was it just magnificent bowling?
• The most exciting Test of that series - on a raging turning in Mumbai
• Murali Kartik's moment, and the liberating Tendulkar-Laxman partnership
• Do the current Australian team have a bowling attack to win in India?

Participants:

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee)

Prashant DP (@prashantdptweet)

Mahesh Sethuraman (@cornerd)

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Related:

• True colours - Adam Gilchrist - Amazon
• The balls of the century - Shane Warne to VVS Laxman - Sharda Ugra - The Cricket Monthly
• Anatomy of a classic - Virender Sehwag on his 155 in Chennai - ESPNcricinfo
• Once upon a twinkle-toed debut - Siddhartha Vaidyanathan - ESPNcricinfo
• Wisden Reports - Australia in India 2004-05 - ESPNcricinfo
• John Wright's Indian Summers - Amazon
• India lose 35-year-old home record - Sharda Ugra - India Today
• Justin Langer chats with Gideon Haigh and Peter Lalor - Part 1, Part 2