Australia v India, 4th Test, Adelaide, 5th day

Eight maidens to victory

Jan 28, 2012: In a series speckled with Indian wickets, the spell Peter Siddle remembered most fondly was one that passed without reward

Australia v India, 4th Test, Adelaide, 5th day

'Shown the world we're on the way up' - Clarke

Jan 28, 2012: Australia's completion of a 4-0 hiding of India at Adelaide Oval was a triumph without triumphalism. The hosts' captain Michael Clarke said his side was far from "the leader of the pack" after rounding up the visiting tail on the final morning, and he exp

Australia v India, 4th Test, Adelaide, 5th day

Marsh could be sent back to Shield

Jan 28, 2012: Shaun Marsh may need time away from the spotlight in the Sheffield Shield to rediscover his game after a dire series against India, his captain Michael Clarke has conceded

Australia v India, 4th Test, Adelaide, 5th day

The pain then, the happiness now

Jan 28, 2012: The humiliation of last summer's Ashes defeat has been in the back of Michael Clarke's mind ever since that day in Sydney nearly 13 months ago

Australia v India, 4th Test, Adelaide, 4th day

The welcome return of Shield cricket

Jan 27, 2012: For Brad Haddin, Shaun Marsh and the Australian selectors, the imminent resumption of the Sheffield Shield is welcome news

Australia v India, 4th Test, Adelaide, 4th day

Lyon does it in the air

Jan 27, 2012: The offspinner had only taken only three wickets in the series previously, but delivered the scalps of Sehwag, Tendulkar and Laxman on the fourth day

Australia v India, 4th Test, Adelaide, 4th day

Ishant gets his fifth - for the series

Jan 27, 2012: ESPNcricinfo presents the Plays of the Day from the fourth day of the fourth Test between Australia and India in Adelaide

Australia v India, 4th Test, Adelaide, 3rd day

Answering Gambhir's jibe

Jan 26, 2012: On a track that is the closest that India will get to home conditions in Australia, Peter Siddle's five-wicket haul made an emphatic point

Australia v India, 4th Test, Adelaide, 3rd day

Siddle transcends the ordinary

Jan 26, 2012: This summer, under the tutelage of Craig McDermott, Peter Siddle has managed to approximate something of the complete fast bowler

Australia v India, 4th Test, Adelaide, 2nd day

Clarke's best man

Jan 25, 2012: As a batting duo Clarke and Ponting bounce off one another perfectly, playing in styles that contrast in ways that split the field

Australia v India, 4th Test, Adelaide, 2nd day

India's gloom gets darker under a blazing sun

Jan 25, 2012: Bowlers usually get punished in Adelaide but India's hapless performance is not merely due to a flat pitch and in-form opposition

Australia v India, 4th Test, Adelaide, 2nd day

Gambhir shrewd at silly point

Jan 25, 2012: ESPNcricinfo presents the Plays of the Day from the second day of the fourth Test between Australia and India in Adelaide

Australia v India, 4th Test, Adelaide, 1st day

Ricky Ponting is still here to stay

Jan 24, 2012: With two centuries in this series, Ricky Ponting assured all that he was not retiring yet, and not off Adelaide Oval until he and the captain Michael Clarke have turned their stand of 251 into something truly gargantuan

Australia v India, 4th Test, Adelaide, 1st day

Marsh's migraine

Jan 24, 2012: A back injury, technical problems and a tendency to have big batting peaks and troughs have all contributed to his Test troubles

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Player suspicions allayed by Howard

Jan 23, 2012: Suspicions and doubts about the priorities of Cricket Australia's management have filtered steadily out of the Australian dressing room

Australia v India, 4th Test, Adelaide

Clarke flags reversal of method

Jan 23, 2012: As India seek a reversal of fortune in the final Test of the summer at Adelaide Oval, Michael Clarke's Australians have prepared for a reversal of method in their pursuit of a 4-0 series sweep

'Players have been challenged and have stood up well'

Jan 23, 2012: The recommendations of the Argus review are beginning to be put in place. Pat Howard, Cricket Australia's general manager, talks about achieving these goals

Australia v India, 4th Test, Adelaide

One crowded hour in Adelaide

Jan 22, 2012: Batting first is the way to go at the Adelaide Oval but the opening exchanges at the venue can be more influential on the outcome of a Test than almost anywhere else in the world

Australia v India, 4th Test, Adelaide

Hussey hopes to be Caribbean-bound

Jan 22, 2012: Michael Hussey has no intention of calling time on his international career at the end of a triumphant series against India, and believes the next generation of batsmen are still to earn the chance to snatch the No. 6 berth from him at a time when Austral

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Ashley Mallett's counsel heeded on Lyon

Jan 21, 2012: Consciously or not, Nathan Lyon's bowling is being remodelled in precisely the way Australia's most successful offspinner, Ashley Mallett, had most ardently suggested