'Tough for any one team to hold sway'
With Australia slipping from the top spot in the Test rankings, Anil Kumble believes it will be tough for one team to dominate from here on
Judhajit
25-Feb-2013
With Australia slipping from the top spot in the Test rankings, Anil Kumble believes it will be tough for one team to dominate from here on. Even if that happens, he doubts if it will be for periods of about a decade. The Twenty20 threat to Tests, day-night Test matches are some of the other topics he speaks about during an interview to Lokendra Pratap Sahi in the Telegraph, the Kolkata-based daily.
Is there a lesson to learn from Australia’s fall?
It hasn’t been a sharp fall... The Australians haven’t had great success over the past year-and-a-half or so, which is why it’s such a challenging time for them. You can’t be at the top forever... It’s a cycle... One shouldn’t forget that quite a few teams travel quite a lot nowadays and, so, are more used to playing in conditions overseas... Till a few years back, it was assumed that it would be difficult to beat Australia, that has changed and India took the lead in bringing about that change... We showed the way by beating them in India and winning Tests on Australian soil as well.