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Everywhere teams are obsessed and stimulated by their sporting enemy
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan
25-Feb-2013
Everywhere teams are obsessed and stimulated by their sporting enemy. But Australia's cricket team has had nobody to provoke it to greatness. It makes them a unique and interesting team, writes Rohit Brijnath in The Hindu.
Barcelona eyes Real Madrid when it buys players, Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett compelled each other to go faster, Nadal's lefty forehand has necessitated an improvement in Federer's backhand. Australia has been disadvantaged by not being able to learn from its rivals. Still it has surged.
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan is a former assistant editor at Cricinfo