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Warner in need of radical change in approach against Ashwin

A solid defensive game, rotation of strike and adding boundary options - Aakash Chopra analyses what the Australian opener needs to do to succeed against the offspinner

08-Mar-2017•Aakash Chopra

The epic twists of an epic Test

The Bengaluru Test was such that you never knew what could happen, and even when you did, everything changed the very next moment

07-Mar-2017•Jarrod Kimber in Bengaluru

Did India's pace unit outperform Australia's?

While India's spinners took a six-for each, the stats suggest it was their fast bowlers who made the difference on a jigsaw-puzzle pitch in Bengaluru

07-Mar-2017•Karthik Krishnaswamy in Bengaluru

Six DRS moments that shaped the Bengaluru Test

In a match of extremely small margins, these moments featuring India and Australia's use of the review system stood out as important

07-Mar-2017•Brydon Coverdale

Ashwin fastest to 25 five-fors in Tests

R Ashwin's record-breaking spree, Josh Hazlewood's career-best, Cheteshwar Pujara's first and Nathan Lyon's contrast between first and second-innings number stand out

07-Mar-2017•Bharath Seervi

How India collapsed on the fourth morning

Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood triggered a slide with the second new ball that resulted in India slipping from 238 for 4 to 274 all out in the second innings

07-Mar-2017•ESPNcricinfo staff

Use your feet and play with a straight bat

Aakash Chopra looks at the technical changes the batsmen needed to make to score runs to tackle the variables of the Bengaluru pitch on the third day

06-Mar-2017•Aakash Chopra

Australia's endless fight ends abruptly

Having bowled and batted with tremendous skill over the first two days in Bengaluru, Australia's discipline began to unravel on the third

06-Mar-2017•Jarrod Kimber in Bengaluru

Pujara profits from self-enforced limitations

At the venue of his memorable debut where he guided a tricky chase, Pujara applied the hard grind to expertly steer India out of choppy waters against the same opposition

06-Mar-2017•Karthik Krishnaswamy in Bengaluru

India set series benchmarks on tough batting day

Stats highlights after the third day's play in Bengaluru, where Cheteshwar Pujara ended a run of poor scores against Australia

06-Mar-2017•Bharath Seervi

India's problems amplified by match situation

India's decision to go with four bowlers meant each of them had to step up - a job they did and would have felt happier about had the match situation been different

05-Mar-2017•Karthik Krishnaswamy in Bengaluru

Blood, sweat and insults - the battle of day two

The series was on the line - or at least that's how it felt - and after 90 overs of the best Test cricket in a long time both Australia and India are still in with a shout

05-Mar-2017•Jarrod Kimber in Bengaluru

Left-handers win the battle v Ashwin

R Ashwin has a Test average of less than 20 against left-handers, and dismisses them once every 45 balls, but in Australia's first innings he bowled 221 balls at them and returned figures of 1 for 62

05-Mar-2017•S Rajesh

The two phases of Rahul's innings

KL Rahul stood out for India on the first day of the Bengaluru Test, and he showed how he could change gears against spinners, especially with wickets falling around him

04-Mar-2017•Karthik Krishnaswamy in Bengaluru

Where is India's intent?

While Australia have come for the series well prepared, India seem to have gone in with the belief that winning the series would only require their players to repeat the same processes that have won them so much in the recent past

04-Mar-2017•Karthik Krishnaswamy in Bengaluru

Bounce was Lyon's key weapon to attack

Aakash Chopra analyses how Nathan Lyon used accuracy, bounce, revolutions and much more to end with as many as eight wickets on the first day in Bengaluru

04-Mar-2017•Aakash Chopra

Lyon overcomes discomfort of expectation

Nathan Lyon hadn't quite produced a body of work in Asia, but his pain of failing to meet the level required in spin-friendly conditions was quickly alleviated in Bengaluru

04-Mar-2017•Jarrod Kimber in Bengaluru

Lyon's 8 for 50 - best by a visiting bowler in India

A statistical breakdown of Nathan Lyon's record against India's top order

04-Mar-2017•Bharath Seervi

Australia's favourite Indian venue

Out of four Tests in Bengaluru, Australia have won two of them and will be hoping to add one more to the tally

03-Mar-2017•Bharath Seervi

Australia enjoy fruits of Dubai detour

The advantages derived from a visit to Dubai before the India Tests have become clear. Here's how Australia ended up in the UAE, and what they had on offer there

03-Mar-2017•Daniel Brettig

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