Description

We discuss the third Test in Sydney, where India held on for a valiant draw.

Talking Points:

• When a draw was like a win
• Steve Smith resumes normal service
• The versatile Mr Jadeja
• Rohit and Gill - partners in promise
• India's decision to pick Pant despite his wicketkeeping problems
• Is one allowed to get run-out in Test cricket?
• Pant's sizzling 97 on day five
• Ashwin and Vihari and the show of defiance
• Can India find 11 fit men for Brisbane?

Participants:

Kartikeya Date (@cricketingview)

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee)

Ashoka (@ABVan)

Mahesh Sethuraman (@cornerd)

Related:

A tragicomedy called 36 all out – 81allout podcast

The Melbourne bounceback - 81allout podcast

The Melbourne Miracle of 1981 – 81allout podcast

The draw that meant so much more - Siddhartha Vaidyanathan, 81allout.com

Pujara's triumph: cricket, lovely cricket - Kartikeya Date

Bruised and abused, Indians make their own luck at the SCG - Sidharth Monga, ESPNcricinfo

Rishabh Pant's keeping - Ben Jones, cricviz.com

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Lead image from here.