Monday, January 2, 2012

India aren’t finished, Dhoni warns Australia

SYDNEY: India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has warned Australia not to get too carried away with their victory in the first test and backed his team to battle back in the second in Sydney this week. If the nature of last week’s 122-run defeat in Melbourne had rattled the tourists, the ice cool Dhoni certainly showed no signs of it when he addressed the media at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Monday. Asked whether India’s 4-0 series drubbing in England earlier this year, and the match in Melbourne, had proved his team was “not much good when there was something there for the bowlers”, Dhoni calmly rebuffed the question. “That’s what you think,” he replied during a news conference. “If you see the kind of players that we have...