Excerpts...Q From an Englishman’s point of view, what are the reasons for India’s first-ever success in a Test series in Australia? Vijay, I recall, had a very good Test series in 2014-2015 (482 runs at an average of 60.25). Q England won the Test series in Sri Lanka, the first after Alastair Cook’s retirement. I’m not saying there’s more science involved in the selections, but Smith does look at other things. A Not very many, I’m afraid... Virat and Faf du Plessis in Test cricket and Eoin Morgan in the two white-ball formats.

Source: The Telegraph January 19, 2019 21:33 UTC