Exclusive interview - Sachin Tendulkar
Your thoughts on India’s performance in Australia.
I think our performance has been really good. The bowlers have been effective and the batters have also stepped up. I would especially like to point out Cheteshwar Pujara—I think he has been magnificent. He is known to tire bowlers out, to construct an innings.
The bowling, I feel, has been terrific. If you look at all three Tests, the fast bowlers have really bowled their hearts out. Also, to be fair, Australia without [David] Warner and [Steve] Smith has been a really average team. This batting lineup does not come anywhere close to earlier Australian teams, known to challenge the opposition with attacking stroke-play and depth in batting. Compared with that, I think they are vulnerable without Smith and Warner. There is that vacuum. If you look at the last six or seven Tests, they have lost quite a few. There is obviously pressure on them.
In the second Test in Perth, I thought Virat [Kohli] played very well and Ajinkya [Rahane] played a crucial innings. In the third Test, I would go back to Pujara, who has been rock solid.
Overall, if you take [Jasprit] Bumrah, [Mohammed] Shami, Ishant [Sharma], [Ravindra] Jadeja and [Ravichandran] Ashwin, all of them have chipped in at some point or the other. It has been a complete performance, which has come at the right time.
Is this the best Indian pace bowling unit to have toured Australia?
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