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Test team enters echelon of greats after gripping series win

Maxim Shanahan
Maxim ShanahanProfessional services reporter

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Australia’s men’s cricket team can stake a claim to being one of the country’s most successful, for the first time holding all major bilateral trophies, and the Test and one-day world championships, after an entertaining, unpredictable and occasionally intemperate series win over India.

Over six weeks, India lost its decade-long grip on the Border-Gavaskar Trophy gradually as Australia inched back from a massive loss in Perth, then suddenly in Sydney on Sunday as debutant Beau Webster and leading run-getter Travis Head crashed the home side to a rollicking win in front of a packed pink SCG crowd.

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Maxim Shanahan is a professional services reporter at the Australian Financial Review. Email Maxim at max.shanahan@nine.com.au

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