India may soon replace Oz as champions: Aus media
Posted on Oct 22, 2008 at 11:07 | Updated Oct 22, 2008 at 17:26
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Melbourne: The Australian media on Wednesday flayed Ricky Ponting and his teammates for the "insipid" loss against India in the second Test and said the humiliation at Mohali reinforced India's new-found domination against the world champions.
Under the headline 'Era of domination at an end', The Australian said the "insipid 320-run loss reinforces India's new-found domination against Australia (with) two wins and two draws since narrowly losing the spiteful Sydney Test."
"India has turned world cricket upside down by bullying Australia into submission, leaving the fast-fading world champion in danger of losing Border-Gavaskar Trophy," it said.
Daily Telegraph said Australian cricket team hit a generational low with its demoralising defeat by a rampaging India, adding the team had been brutally exposed without the retired greats Adam Gilchrist, Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne.
"Australia has been seriously outplayed and out-verballed in the match. A colossus which strode the world virtually unchallenged for more than a decade, Australia is now finding that India is treating it in the same way that Australia confronted the West Indies to claim the world crown in 1995.
"Australia has done well over the last year or so to cover the chasm left by retiring greats McGrath, Warne and Gilchrist, but they have been brutally exposed here," it said.
The Australians were outclassed and humbled and they caved in with their tails hanging between their legs, Sydney Morning Herald said in a piece by commentator Peter Roebuck.
"Australia have lost before but it's been a long time since they were so comprehensively taken apart. No one expected them to be brushed away like dust off a table. No one expected them to cave in or depart with their tails hanging between their legs."
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