Published: January 07, 2019
The manner in which India’s first Test win on Australian soil in 71 years arrived was scarcely relevant
This is the way a series ends: not with a bang but a whimper. Called off for the sake of precipitation that didn’t even count as rain, specks of moisture that lacked the energy to fall and so just wafted about laterally in wispy veils like a Bonnie Tyler dress.
No play on the fifth day of the Sydney Test meant that the finale of match and series was an anticlimax. But the substance of the series entire remained deeply significant. An abandoned match only meant that India won 2-1 rather than 3-1.
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