Enjoy Perth’s victory, but Jasprit Bumrah’s team needs to focus on the wider picture.

India needs to defeat Australia 4-0 or 4-1 in order to go to the WTC finals. The seeds have been planted, and the time is right. It is time to use clever, traditional test cricket to pull off the coup de grace, exploiting a fragile Australian batting order that appears to be in terrible form.

India won the T20 World Cup in the West Indies after losing the ODI World Cup and two consecutive World Test Championship finals. After a well-earned win, the team celebrated with everything from a meet-and-greet with the PM to a dance performance at the Wankhede. A little excessive, but not unpleasant!

Red-ball season has begun. With some outstanding batting and bowling performances, particularly at Kanpur, where the Indian team achieves a shock victory in two and a half days, Bangladesh is thrashed 2-0 in the home series. There is a chance to advance to the WTC Finals.

After losing badly to Sri Lanka in the two-test series, New Zealand lands on Indian soil. Nothing unusual. The slow, twisting surfaces in Sri Lanka and the Indian subcontinent are not renowned to be bravely faced by the cricketing anglosphere. This is good news for India because it needs to defeat New Zealand at home in three of its final eight tests to guarantee a place in the WTC Finals.

But for the home series, the cricketing gods have written a different tale. India is whitewashed by NZ. An embarrassing series loss, particularly when the Indian side is unable to tackle pitches that have been

“selected” with the sole intention of “spinning” a web around the hitters from New Zealand. The Indian batsmen demonstrate their incapacity to play the NZ spin three, one of whom, incidentally, works as a

full-time wicketkeeper and part-time office worker. Given the characteristics of the tracks, Indian spinners perform better, but they also enable New Zealand to establish consistent partnerships and score enough runs to force our hitters out.

Calls for a change of leadership are resounding from all sides in the wake of this historic loss. The guillotine should fall on elder legs, according to the cricketing body politic as a whole.

Interlude: A balanced viewpoint is selected

Sticking to their guns, the Indian selectors choose a balanced group that includes all of the “old pros.” In any case, the Indian squad gets to Australia rather early and practices for ten days (why is it hidden

behind black curtains?). According to the press, the team appears to be anxious to drive out the ghosts of the New Zealand series at home, confident, and well-prepared.

Act II: Optus Stadium in Perth

For the first game of the series, Jasprit Bumrah takes Rohit Sharma’s place as captain. He is composed and at ease, and he appears to be relishing his new position as captain. After winning the toss, India chooses to bat first on a new, green field that appears poised to catch any batting order, despite what

many people think. For 150, India is bundled out. India’s batting on fast-paced, lively tracks continues to raise concerns. The form of Virat Kohli is being scrutinized. The Indian media started reiterating the call for heads to roll. But the game is far from done.

The rest of what follows is the stuff of dreams. It begins with Bumrah and company destroying the Australian batsmen with a show of sharp pace bowling for a meager 106 in the first innings. It is a Yashasvi Jaiswal-KL Rahul program after that. On a warm, sunny second day, the Indian batters walked

in and ended up going undefeated, with India securing a commanding lead of about 250 by the conclusion of the day. In a post-match interview, Jaiswal declared his daddy-hundred (161) to be his best

knock to date, solidifying his position as the Indian team’s batting backbone. Every other batter enters with a cushion thanks to an incredible opening stand of 201, making it much simpler to score runs.

Bumrah’s timely declaration guarantees that the Indian bowlers take advantage of the weary Australian legs and dismiss three fast wickets before the third day is out. Beyond that, it is really a formality. On the

fourth day, the bowlers return and dismiss Oz in two sessions, giving them a 295-run victory and the second-biggest loss in Oz’s history. It was so resounding that it would take going back more than 40

years to outstrip the margin. This demonstrates not only Australia’s supremacy in international cricket but also the Indian team’s notable accomplishments. It is accurate to praise Bumrah and Jaiswal as generational talents. Gaining such a large victory will, most