SPORTS

If you had read the interviews we did with the Australian players as part of the build up to this series, you would have seen player after player making two points: One, that they intended to play aggressive cricket and two, that they thought the key was to play it session by session, to minimise the damage they sustain and to come back fighting.
Today, vice-captain Adam Gilchrist walked that talk, in company of opener Mathew Hayden. And in the process, produced an exhibition of counter-attacking cricket that ranks as the best in recent times