How quickly everything can change after a couple of days of Test cricket.
After India comprehensively beat down Australia in Perth, premature obituaries were being written about the home side daily.
Pat Cummins had lost his zip, Marnus Labuschagne was done as a Test cricketer, Australia was a team over the hill. All hot takes, all silenced to some degree.
As it turned out, reports of Australia’s demise were greatly exaggerated, and now we head to Brisbane with the series locked at one apiece.
After the Adelaide Test, Indian commentator Harsha Bhogle compared this five-Test series between cricket’s two behemoths to a five-setter at a grand slam tournament, and it is an incredibly accurate comparison.