Umesh Yadav's blistering spell completed a solid season of Test cricket for the 29-year-old, who has played all but one of India's 13 Tests during an exhausting summer.
On pitches that have offered little assistance for the quicks, Umesh has taken 30 wickets at 36.76 to provide admirable support to India's star spinners.
Former Australia skipper Michael Clarke said the approach of India's opening bowlers would have taken the tourists by surprise. "I don't think any of the Australian batsmen expected the pace and aggression of Umesh Yadav," Clarke told India Today.
"A lot of Australia's batsmen were pushed on the back foot by Umesh's pace."
Former India skipper Sourav Ganguly was full of praise for the right-armer, who will finish the series as the leading paceman from both teams having taken 17 wickets at 23 in four Tests.
"Umesh Yadav's spell took the wind out of Australia," Ganguly told India Today.
"I knew it would be just a matter of time before there was an edge."
"The fast bowlers broke the backbone of the Australian batting line-up and then the spinners completed the job."
Source: Cricket Australia website
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Aussies' mood reflects mission improbable
Andrew Ramsey, Cricket Australia
Tourists' dressing room tells a sad tale after the day that all but saw the trophy returned to India.
Australia’s dressing room, which despite the heavy fortifications enforced by cricket’s anti-corruption officers and its strictly off-limits policy for all but the most VVIP of guests, has not escaped becoming implicated in the storms that have raged through this India series.
It has defiantly stared down accusations of improper practices, remained upbeat and resolute lest the siege mentality of so many previously dispiriting tours to the subcontinent take hold, and housed a genuine belief that this campaign would end somehow differently.
But the Australia dressing room was not a place anyone would have voluntarily wanted to visit tonight.
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Australia squander an elusive series win in India
Ronan O'Connell, The Roar
The Border-Gavaskar Trophy slipped out of Australia’s grasp in the space of one manic session yesterday in the fourth Test in Dharamsala.
When Australia dismissed India for 332, limiting them to a lead of 32, the match was dead even. The tourists had the chance to set a target of 200-plus, which would have been a difficult chase on this lively pitch.
So, halfway through the final Test of this absorbing series, Australia were in a decent position to launch towards the most unlikely of series victories. Instead, they had two of their worst sessions of the tour, collapsing to 137 all out before wasting the new ball just before the close of play with some loose bowling.
In those two sessions, Australia badly missed the discipline and determination which had helped them get within striking distance of winning a series in India for the first time in 13 years.
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Cameras catch Steve Smith calling Murali Vijay a ‘f---ing cheat’
Ben Horne, The Daily Telegraph
Relations between Australia and India exploded again after Murali Vijay claimed a grounded catch before cameras captured Steve Smith calling him a “f---ing cheat”.
The second “cheating” scandal of this series blew up when Indian players were called back on to the field after sprinting off, thinking the Australian innings was over.
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