Cricket - The Gentleman’s Game

An year back, there was no doubt as to which team is the best team in International test cricket. It was Australia and the answer was unanimous. But the situation has changed and the Australian wall was weakened by many cracks and the two teams which are now in the race for the No.1 position are India and South Africa. Over the last year, these two teams have out performed Australia in International cricket and Aussies who were once invincibles are now clearly a ‘not-so-strong’ team.

Though Australia retained its position by the recent victory over South Africa, the margin between the nations is not as wide as it was a few years ago. The points of Australia, South Africa and India are 126, 121 and 118 respectively which indicate that there are high chances that Australia will lose to one of these two teams in the near future.

There is a test series in South Africa in the month of February against Australia and if Australians lose this series (they did not win the last two test series), they will lose the No.1 title in the test cricket for the first time in the last ten years.

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