Former Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist said that the ‘controlled aggression’ of captain Pat Cummins spurred Australia to a series-levelling win in the Adelaide pink-ball Test against India.
“You could see just through his celebrations that… every wicket that he took he was more aggressive in his celebration,” Gilchrist said on Fox Cricket’s The Follow-on podcast.
“Cummins was outstanding, he looked like if there needed a bit of a grease and oil change after Perth and a tune-up, he was purring by the end of it, so that was terrific to watch.
“They were just a unit, the three bowlers, Nathan Lyon only had one over (in the match) and Mitch Marsh four, but other than that the big three, Starc, Boland, Cummins hunted as a pack and bowled as a unit and that was really fun to watch,” he added.
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The former captain said the Aussies were ‘stung’ following the 295-run loss in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series opener in Perth.
“Not in that lose control extent but you could just see that clearly they’d been stung by a bit of criticism around after their performance (in Perth) and they internally would have been so disappointed with the way they played in Perth.
“So it (Adelaide celebrations ) showed you what it meant to them and they knew that they were back at the level they want to play their cricket.