India's win a great thing for Test cricket: Geoff Marsh
16 March 2001
India's magnificient win in the Kolkata Test against Australia
yesterday is a great thing for Test cricket, said former Aussie
opening batsman Geoff Marsh in Mumbai today.
Marsh, who is also the BCCI consultant for junior cricket, said there
is no doubt that the Indian team has a lot of talented players and to
see them all come good when the chips were down was just great.
"Yesterday's win has done a great thing not only for Indian cricket
in particular but for Test cricket in general," Marsh, who was part
of the Aussie golf team which won the tournament at the Royal Palms
yesterday, added.
Marsh, who stepped down as the Aussie coach after the World Cup in
England in 1999, said the Australians did everthing they could when
VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid were "tearing the bowling apart and I do
sympathise with them. The Indians came back brilliantly and batted
beautifully on the fourth day and must have bowled brilliantly on the
final day to win with quite a big margin. With this win the Indians
have not only squared the three-Test match series at one all but have
created immense interest for the Chennai Test which I am sure will be
a real thriller," he added.
Marsh's opening partner David Boon said "Laxman and Dravid really
played well and I think it was just one bad day that did the
Australians in and of course they (Aussies) have not had a bad day in
the last 16 Tests, so I think it was due anyway."
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