Cricinfo seems to suggest that this game got pretty intense in a not so pleasant way towards the end. If Cricinfo said this, I'm not going to look forward to reading what the biased Indian and Australian fans would have bantered in this thread... so I won't.
Australia won it in the end and that's what counts. A lot of "what-ifs" could be read from this test match but I believe it would be a useless exercise trying to justify them. Australia were definitely much luckier than India in this test match and though one can say India could have made their own luck by keeping their heads up, one can definitely understand how it's harder to keep it up especially when so much luck goes against you and that too against the best team in the world.
We had a realistic chance to win this test at some point to square the series. I don't think India have any chance to come back in this series. I think we may end up losing it 3-1 or 4-0. This series is definitely not going to become any prettier as the accusations flowing over the media have suggested.
There are a few things I hope came out of this test match for India: (1) Get a proper ****ing opening pair. (2) Get Yuvraj the hell out of the team until there is place for him. (3) Seriously evaluate the performance of umpires, especially a certain umpire who had a similarly poor series when these two teams last played in Australia, and make decisions based on them. I don't think that anyone can disagree that the umpiring in this match has been well below-par--and that's not just from an Indian perspective. Both teams copped poor decisions, though it also has to be agreed that the Indians did bear the brunt of it.
