WACA pitch not a green monster
"I was surprised with India's decision to field four quicks and I honestly felt Pragyan Ojha would have been a good choice
George Binoy
25-Feb-2013
"I was surprised with India's decision to field four quicks and I honestly felt Pragyan Ojha would have been a good choice. The Australians have not played left-arm spin well over the years and India should have had the variation in their attack," writes Sourav Ganguly in the Sydney Morning Herald. "On the other hand, for Australia it was a good choice. Nathan Lyon has not been effective in the series and, if I were Michael Clarke, I would play four quicks in Adelaide as well."
In the same paper, Malcolm Knox says: "Sydney Thunder must be ruing the day they signed David Warner. First he goes off and gets himself picked in the Test team. Then he plays an innings for Australia so thrilling that anything coming out of the Big Bash League will seem, by comparison, humdrum."
Warner showed he can keep all his short-form habits and still prosper in five-day cricket. His century, off 69 balls, was pure entertainment in its own right. But everyone has seen him put bowlers in the blast furnace with those blacksmith forearms. What made this innings unforgettable was its strategic impact. In less than a session he made the bowlers's earlier work really count, and put the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, barring a miracle, beyond India's reach. And he did it not in lime but myrtle green.
George Binoy is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo