After the emotional peak of Perth, it could be easy to fall over at the next time of asking at the MCG
The ground staff at the Melbourne Cricket Ground are promising a pitch with life and verve. The teams fronting up for Boxing Day are promising the same. Australia and India are sitting even at 1-1, in a series that has produced plenty of spice, ready to fight for a lead in front of the biggest cricket crowd in the world.
Australia feels like the team with the advantage, or at least there’s an energy that suggests it, given the way the home side came out ahead in the second Test last week. But English readers especially might well remember a previous southern summer that featured a visiting team winning in Adelaide, then the home side roaring back in Perth to level the series.
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