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Post by sirfredperry Fri 13 Jan 2012, 2:09 pm

Have alluded to this on another link, but would like to highlight just how quickly Test fortunes can turn round. To see the Aussies rubbing Indian noses into it is to see a side transformed from the lot what got dismissed for 98 and were trailing after day one at Melbourne on Boxing Day 2010.
Other turn rounds that spring to mind include the Windies being hammered by Australia in 1975/76 and then crushing England a few months later. I also can dredge up turn arounds like the 54/55 Aussie side succumbing to Tyson and then making stacks of runs in the Caribbean a few weeks later.
England looked unstoppable against the Aussies in 85 but then lost 5-0 in the Windies a few months later.
Some times you get turn-arounds in a particular Test or series. I'm thinking Edgbaston E v WI in 1957, Leeds E v A in 81 and the Lax/Drav fightback in 01 (was it Bombay ?) v Australia. Eng also lost heavily at Brisbane in 1954/55 but won the next three Tests. They also had a crushing win in Australia under Plum Warner in what must have been 1827 (actually 1911, I think) after losing the first Test.
Now, whether India with this current crop of players can come back from this is debatable. But stranger things have happened.

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Post by JDizzle Fri 13 Jan 2012, 2:14 pm

From recent memory, last year's Ashes series was fairly topsy turvy! From England dominating from Day 4 onwards in Brisbane, to cruise the Adelaide Test Match and then be completely blown away in Perth, but to respond by bowling Aus out for 98 in Melbourne was superb. Perhaps more of a case of one lucky performance from the Aussies rather than a turn around though.

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Post by sirfredperry Fri 13 Jan 2012, 2:21 pm

Spose you could also mention Cardiff 09 which was followed by a good win for E at Lord's and then Leeds later in the series which was again followed by an England victory.
Interesting win-loss sequence between E and SA in England in 1955 when England went 2-0 up, SA got it back to 2-2, only for Eng to win the 5th Test to take the series 3-2.

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Post by Mad for Chelsea Fri 13 Jan 2012, 2:25 pm

England vs SA 98 springs to mind.

England dominate the first test, but rain takes away their chance to push for a win (remarkable how when England scored at (roughly) 4 runs per over in their second innings it was seen as a really positive effort to set up the declaration - how times have changed!). SA bounce back and murder them at Lords, carry on at OT but a fabulous rearguard from England in their second innings saves the game, and England go on to win the last two tests and the series (including that famous battle between Athers and Donald at Trent Bridge).

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