Courage and glory at Gabba as India achieves ‘Aussome’ win | Cricket news

If you’ve been living in fear that the coronavirus will slowly shut down the life of world sport, you can breathe a sigh of relief and continue with a cry of sheer exaltation. The sport not only exists, it thrives and occasionally, as cricket did in Brisbane on Tuesday, causes a billion hearts to beat in unison, giving us goosebumps moments that mark our lives and are forever etched in the history of sport.
Indian cricketers wrote a fairy tale in a dramatic and emotionally draining final hour of the final day of the final test of an already unforgettable series, topping Australia across 3 terrains to win consecutive test series on Australian soil. In the process, they became the first Asian team to win a test in the Gabba.
India won with a bowling attack with a combined experience of 4 tests in Brisbane. They won despite having to use 20 players in the series. They won when the world had discarded their hitting skills. They won even though their players fell like dominoes. They believed, stubbornly and vehemently.

India only needed a draw to retain the Border-Gavaskar trophy. That would have been a minor miracle in itself, given that injuries had devastated the team and forced management to place players who had only been left behind to pitch into the net.

No one seriously expected India to hit a hefty 329 target on a day five pitch at the Gabba. But the extremely talented Rishabh pants, a flag for the next generation Indian cricketer who has yet to learn to step back, he had other plans. ‘New India’ played to win and did it, marking an important line in the sand.
Along with the steely Cheteshwar Pujara and the sensational Shubman Gill, whom the ABC commentators were still raving about, India timed a high and seemingly impossible chase to perfection. Past stellar performances by Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Mohd Siraj had prepared victory.

These heroic deeds allowed a group of second-rate rookies, suffocated by a seemingly endless life of months in quarantine, to stage a memorable heist.
This was possibly India’s biggest overseas test win and definitely its best win in the series. The result was achieved against the best Australian bowling attack in the world by a group of brave men who had come straight from the bank. Just three tests ago, India had probed at depths of 36 in the first test.

From that beating in Adelaide to victories in Melbourne and at the Gabba, and a resolved draw in Sydney, where Pant again nearly accomplished the impossible, it’s a change that will become one of the most underprivileged stories in modern sport.

“You don’t just play and love test cricket for nothing,” tweeted the great Vivian Richards.

A battered and bruised India lacked nearly all of its key personnel and was vehemently complaining about the stifling lifestyle restrictions that came into this Trial. At one point, it seemed like the ‘Battle of Brisbane’ wouldn’t even happen, thanks to the pandemic.
Yet brilliantly led by a calm and cunning substitute captain in Ajinkya Rahane, running with net pitchers, youthful adrenaline and the audacity of hope, ‘New India’ stormed the ‘Gabbatoir’, a fortress that has not been violated by anyone. . visitor since 1988.
India did so by scoring 329 runs in the fourth inning, 325 of Tuesday’s, the fourth most scored on a worn field on the final day by a winning team.
“Young India is showing that she is not afraid,” ex-captain Sunil Gavaskar gushed, while coach Ravi shastri He explained how this team was not built in a day, but was a multi-year process to strengthen the bench and maintain faith in budding talent.
Regular captain Virat Kohli may have been absent after Adelaide, but his tease of “New India” before the series doesn’t sound so cheeky now. Some of his famous bravery has rubbed off on this team. Shastri was also a stubborn cricketer, and his presence seems to have helped.
Shane Warne called India’s victory “the cricket version of ‘Thrilla in Manilla,'” Ali-Frazier’s memorable 1975 heavyweight boxing match. In fact, the image of a brave Pujara, who played 928 balls. in this series, soaking in multiple blows to the head, fingers, knuckles, ribs and forearms like a sponge and still coming back for a more defined Indian campaign.
Any other side would have thrown in the towel long ago. But India never stopped believing. From staying alive to keeping the faith, they covered an odyssey in which boys became men and stars became legends. And they showed us that it is okay to dream. Because sometimes, fairy tales come true.