Rating Test teams of this decade
While it was a smooth ride for some of the teams, a few others have struggled and witnessed failures like never before.
3. Australia – 8/10
A lot happened for Australia in this decade. The likes of Ricky Ponting, Michael Clark and several others have retired. There was a tragedy in between with the death of Phil Hughes. Even towards the end of the decade, there were a few troubles with David Warner and Steve Smith retiring. While this wasn’t a decade where they dominated as they did in the previous one, it was still a good decade for the Kangaroos.
The Aussies started the decade with wins against Pakistan and New Zealand. In the MCC Spirit of Test Cricket series, they won one game and lost the other. But the team struggled in the subcontinent with losses against both India and Sri Lanka in 2010.
This is also the decade when an intense rivalry between them and South Africa boomed. Their worst nightmare came true in 2013 when India whitewashed them in a four-match series. And then in the following year, Pakistan whitewashed the team once again in a two-match series.
Then began a decent phase from the end of December 2014 where the team has figured things out and got the combinations better. The Ashes story has been mentioned in the England section and it is Australia which has the urn at the close of this decade.
One performance the Kangaroos would be proud of is when they toured India in 2017. They started off really well but would be disappointed with the fact that they couldn’t maintain the same kind of intensity. The defeat to India in a Test series at home is definitely one of their worst performance but they’d settle for the fact that they played with a depleted side.
W/L Ratio: 1.447
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