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The Decade: Story of Cricketing Nations... Part 1

  
 The decade 2010...2019 saw what the pundits had predicted on the turn of the decade. The predictions were; Batting will grow in stature and bowling will shrink. T20 leagues and cricket will enhance its demand and scope while test will see its existence rattling on the shores. Somethings of the sort happened , things went pretty much the same way except 2019 where test cricket saw its legs strengthened by supportive statements from players like Kholi. The ashes innings  from Stokes and close games like Ashes 2019.

 A lot happened in this decade,  we will see each time repestively and will trace their growth, fall and transition throught the 10 years.

AUSTRALIA

         
AUSTRALIA was underdogs in 2010, they were declining from their epitome postion. They lost the 2010 WT20 final to ENGLAND , lost the Ashes as well. They lost in India , Failed in 2012 WT20 again. Lost to Pakistan in DUBAI in tests. Lost , Ponting, Lee and Hussy respectively.  The only good thing happened to them was 2013 Ashes where they reincarnated an almost extinct spirit of Australian cricket. Their fortunes shifted in 2015 where they won the CWC and introduced STARC as a lead face of Fast bowling.  They played good cricket through the last five years. Smith , Starc and Jhonson appeared as faces of Australian cricket.

INDIA

           
If someone has to to pick the team of decade, it will, undoubtedly, be India. India played  perfect cricket throught the decade. They appeared in one worldcup final and won it, they also reached three simi finals in all three wold Cups. They played two Champions Trophy finals and won one of them.  Participated in 4 World T20s;  appeared in one final and one simi final. Their biggest disappointment was losing test series, in India series to England. It was a highly embarrassing series to lose for a strong Indian team. Since then they are undefeated in home conditions. Kholi scored almost  11 thousand runs in odis, scored numberless hundreds and won a lot of matches for them. Their bowling improved in a better way, Shami, Ishant Ashwin bowled India to majority of wins in their matches. VIRAT Kholi lead them in Knight-ly manner, as a captain he won a test series in Australia and an odi series in South Africa- these two are the highlights of his captiancy Career.

ENGLAND

          
England was the best test team in the world at the start of decade. They defeated Austrlia in Australia, Australia in England, India in India , India in England. Pakistan in England. Their restless rise was startled by Austrlia in The Ashes, 2013, where Jhonson blew the wind out of their sails and ended significant careers of Swann, Pietersen, and Jhonatan Trott- The series lose resulted in the ending of those careers that was caused by Jhonson. Their later 5 years were dencent years, they did not achieve something substantial but were ok!. Their Odi journey was odd throughout  the first half of the decade and  it was after 2015 CWC that England unleashed an attacking scheme of Odi cricket lead by Morgan and supported by stokes, Root, Hails and Jason Roy and Buttler. They made the most number of  400 plus scores since 2015 and recorded the higest Odi score for a team in an Inngx-481. They rounded it up win a worldcup win in 2019.  Buttler and Root and Morgan can be called their Best in Odis for the decade.
In T20i they were not bad; played two Finals , won one and were stolen of another by Braithwaite and west Indies.  Morgan is their  T20i player of the decade.


The other teams will be discussed sooner than later. 


Shah Faisal 
Shenshenta@gmail.com

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