Is this the beginning of a new, powerful era in Australian cricket, or instead the sad goodbye to a once tumultuous Indian cricket team?
There has been feverish talk by fans and experts alike of Australia having the best pace attack in the world and of our batsmen finally regaining some form of the past.
There is no doubt that the likes of James Pattinson and Pat Cummins look like exciting prospects for the future, while veterans Hilfenhaus and Siddle picked up a few extra yards of pace as they continuously skittled the frail Indians.
Ricky Ponting has rediscovered the form that entitled his legend status to begin with. He has amassed 544 runs this summer at an average of 108.8. This is to go with Michael Clarke’s 626 runs at a whopping 125.2.
But take a look back to the Ashes series last summer and we see Clarke with an average of 21.44, only able to amass 180 runs over five Tests against England. Ponting was worse, managing 113 runs at a miserly 16.14.
Siddle took 14 wickets at 34.57 while Hilfenhaus took seven wickets at almost 60 and was dropped before the end of the series.
One would be silly to suggest that if we played against England next week that the top performers of this summer would perform as they did against India.
India are weakened and the shoulders of Tendulkar, Laxman, Dravid and Sehwag can no longer hold up the powerful reputation India once held.
Their bowling attack is flawed, they no longer have the first class spinner they once had and their pace attack lacks patience and a consistency required to play Test cricket.
It is been suggested that Dravid is to announce his retirement and if the failures continue Laxman, and dare I say it, Tendulkar will follow.
Without this legendary middle order, India will fall into the same predicament both the West Indies and Australia experienced, finding themselves lulling fourth or fifth in the test rankings with the public slowly losing interest.
Like any Australian I hope that this is the beginning of a new powerful era of Australian cricket, but before we can assume that this is the case, we must play against the top ranked side in the world and perform with the same success as we have seen this summer against a deteriorating Indian side.
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