This was one of the greatest despite Smith's cheat storm

Adam Collins in India and Geoff Lemon of the ABC Down Under.

After the thrills of the second Test in Bangalore, the boys from Down Under run the rule over an epic series.

Geoff Lemon: I’m not going to get overcooked and start talking about one of the great Test matches. But we did just watch an excellent example – one that swung, one that showed off the most basic and difficult skills of the game, one that could have gone either way through every minute of the final two days. A fine match that has set up what could become a great series.

Adam Collins: Bloody hell, Geoff. One of the best of the modern era is exactly what I’ve described it as elsewhere in these pages. I’ll stand by that. You know what it also was? An old-fashioned stink. Wherever you looked the teams wanted to be in a cage match. Not always pretty, but entertaining. And all that has a way to run before Ranchi.

GL: We need to give you a cooling-off period. Not allowed to write anything for a fortnight after a game. Every close game is the best for five minutes afterwards, as we forget all the others in the excitement of the new. But Bangalore was in that group, and the angst which can be tiresome somehow made it more so. Kohli was mad after losing so badly, he was mad after missing out with the bat, and was probably justifiably mad when his rival captain went asking the dressing room whether he should challenge a leg-before dismissal.