Cricket - Good cricket mixed with bad blood makes for fine series


  • Cricket
  • Wednesday, 29 Mar 2017

Cricket - India v Australia - Fourth Test cricket match - Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala, India - 28/03/17 - India's Virat Kohli (R) shakes hands with Australia's captain Steven Smith after India won the series. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

DHARAMSALA, India (Reuters) - As India celebrate the return of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy from previous holders Australia, the overriding consensus is that the hosts maintained order between the sport's top two test sides in a series that had everything.

Seldom has a tour been dragged deep into the gutter through tit-for-tat accusations of cheating and foul play only for it to rise magnificently in the wake of some quality cricket by the bitterest of antagonists.

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