NEW DELHI: A one-off Test is not even an appetiser. Five days can feel like a lot when two mismatched teams run into each other. But when India and Australia-two sides with some history between them-are playing each other, one Test, even if it is the final of the World Test Championship, is too little.
The most fascinating aspect of a Test series is how it strips the players of all the accumulated layers of superficiality and exposes the very core. Many players go into a series thinking they are prepared but by the time the series ends, they know that a serious rebuild is in order.
Over the course of a longer series, the technique of a player is laid threadbare, the gaps become that much more obvious as do the strengths. This is as true for batters as it is for bowlers. This is precisely what makes the longer format the ultimate test in the eyes of many cricketers.
"In the last three, four years it's been unbelievable. It's been so entertaining," Australian batter Marnus Labuschagne told The Guardian in an interview. "The 2019 Ashes was an unbelievable series. Australia v India in Australia, really good series. We just had a pretty good series in India on some diabolical turning wickets and then you go New Zealand v England, Pakistan v England. I mean, the game's coming alive."
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