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Listed below are comments made by tietosh between Wednesday, 22nd October 2008 and Wednesday, 22nd October 2008.

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The end of a cricketing era 10:52am on 22 Oct 2008 Personally the media is more intent about bagging Australia. As an Australian I was greatly impressed by India's performance. Almost perfect this test.

As an Australian I was expecting this series to be an end of an era; 20 years of dominance is a great achievement after the mighty force of the Windies in the 80s.

The test for India will be now wether they are they a one test wonder (they almost lost the first test last week to a 2nd class Aussie line up) or can they pick up the mantle as the best in class?

One thing for sure is that both team's need to learn is leadership. The behaviour of 2 - 3 players from both sides is psycho stuff and in need of real leadership help. Kumble can help but then he his long for this stage. Ponting cannot help because he has had many chances to show statemenship and has failed in the same way that Smith fails in South Africa. Leadership: bring it on because the game needs it, big time. India nneds to show its humility in winning; they won well but Harbijan and Zaheer look like Hayden and Ponting which messes with the brand.

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