My money is on India, says Jeff Thomson ahead of India’s tour of Australia

Since independence, India havewent on to play as many as eleven Test series against Australia down under, managing to lose eight of them and drawing three. However, Jeff Thomson has been of the opinion that India’s chances of changing history have significantly increased with the improving cricketing standard of India under the captaincy of Virat Kohli.

“The current team is losing to Pakistan and they will now play South Africa. India is the only good series. But their footwork against Pakistan was too bad and no technique to play Test cricket. All they know is to smack the ball and that is because of T20 cricket,” he said.

“Kohli is a good batsman, plays cricket the hard way and puts in a lot of effort. He is a great batter. No, he can’t [win the series alone]. You need a lot of help from the team and he has a great bunch of players. I hope the rest of the team plays as hard he does. It’s not easy to bowl out a batsman of quality and Kohli is great. For me, let them not score in the first over they face. They will be frustrated for that time and play a bad shot after playing that over. It’s the way to get them out. I think Kohli will not play a bad shot because he’s good but others may,” he explained.

Steve Waugh has come out in recent weeks claiming that it was Cricket Australia’s fault that led on the bad culture within the team for a long time that eventually led to this. However, Thomson was quick to argue that it was Waugh who had first started the culture sledging on-field.