A little over eight years ago, a young Australian made a dream debut in Bangalore. Now he returns as captain

The Australian approach on the fourth day may have been negative or pointless to some but it was clear that lessons had been learnt from the debacles at Kolkata [2001] and Adelaide [2003]

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Everything's peachy when Damien Martyn is finessing his square-cuts to the fence, but things weren't always so rosy

The wounds inflicted by the Australians are very fresh on Harbhajan Singh's mind

Both teams come in to this series with recent series wins under their belts, although New Zealand's victory over Bangladesh doesn't quite rate alongside a win in India

John Wright, the Indian coach, has admitted that the team need to show more determination and hunger to get out of their current rut and rediscover their winning ways

Perhaps numbers never do reveal the full story, but they tell a large part of it

Pakistan could drop from fourth to sixth place in the ICC's ODI Championship if they lose to India at Eden Gardens on Saturday