Years of planning. Years of forethought, deliberation, anticipation. All unravelled in less than 33 overs of a slightly extended session, Australia bowled out for 91 and losing the first Test at Nagpur before tea on the third day.
At the top of Australian cricket, this tour has been on minds for an age. The 2013 men’s team came for four Tests in India and lost the lot. The humiliation stung. There was much thinking and theorising before the next attempt in 2017. Steve Smith made three hundreds, Steve O’Keefe pulled out a singular performance, Nathan Lyon had his best innings return and Australia closed the gap to a 2-1 loss.
