Bengaluru: "Nobody can say we played an inferior Australia side," said head coach Ravi Shastri, taking an obvious dig at critics who did not rate highly India's Test series win Down Under last year. Shastri's comments came after India wrapped the home ODI series against full-strength Australia.
Skipper Virat Kohli had led India to its first ever Test series win on Australia soil but it had come in the absence of their key batsmen David Warner and Steve Smith, who were serving bans after being indicted in a ball-tampering scandal.

Critics said the win came when Smith and Warner were not there to challenge India. BCCI President Sourav Ganguly had also said the even Kohli knows that the away Test series win in 2019 was not against a full-strength Australia . "This team, the boys showed great character. Nobody can say we played an inferior Australia side. They got a thrashing in Mumbai, and then to win two games, with all the travel, and with Australia winning all three tosses," Shastri said after India's seven-wicket win in the decisive third match.