Domination?

Season Host India Australia Draw

1995/96 India 1 0 0
1997/98 India 2 1 0
1999/00 Australia 0 3 0
2001/02 India 2 1 0
2003/04 Australia 1 1 2
2004/05 India 1 2 1
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7 8 3

So, what does one make of this article by Ian Chappell?

In an era when the entire assembly of current Australian greats were in their pomp, the test scoreline between India and Australia is marginally in favour of Australia ( thanks BCCI VP Shashank Manohar) although the series wins are in India's favor.

In the 2003/04 series in Australia, in the absence of Mcgrath and Warne, India scored 2806 runs for the loss of 57 wickets. Australia was marginally better at 2845 runs for the loss of 60 wickets.

This when India was missing both Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh.

Given this premise, and given the fact that India plays Australia at Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Perth in the latter half of the Australian summer and that Australia will not have played active Test cricket for the better part of 11 months coming into the Sri Lanka series preceding the India series,

India has blown their shot at domination by not capitalising on a golden era of
batting.

will remain to be seen.