ADELAIDE: Perth wasn’t an outlier. India and Australia kept Test cricket’s flag flying high here as the series acquired an edgy tone. The absorbing day evoked memories of past skirmishes and reminded us why reprising a five-Test series between these two is an idea whose time has come.
You could see it even before a ball was bowled, when the turnstiles went into overdrive as the crowd swelled on a working day. You could see it when Mitchell Starc all but copyrighted the phrase ‘smiling assassin’ with just one delivery, his first, ripping apart Yashasvi Jaiswal’s manicured swagger and then letting out a satisfying roar.
