I am proud that everybody gave 100
©CricInfo While I did not use the terms "last frontier" or "final frontier" to describe the Australian tour to India - someone made it up along the way - I certainly said that it would be a great challenge for the team to win here
Steve Waugh
10-Apr-2001
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Since we lost the Test series, there has been some conjecture as to
whether we could have picked some of the players who were left behind.
I have no regrets on that score. We were one wicket away from winning
in Calcutta on the fourth morning, and that one wicket would have won
us the series. Full credit to the way the Indians fought on that day
to turn the tide in their favour.
Positives have emerged for both sides during the series and none more
so for us than Matthew Hayden. He had been on the bench for quite some
time and is proof that if you want something badly enough, you can
achieve it with hard work. He was our most successful player by far
and never failed right through the series. On the Indian side, the
tremendous performance of Harbhajan Singh would be a plus. He took an
enormous number of wickets and made the absence of Anil Kumble seem
like a blessing in disguise. Who knows, if Kumble had been fit he may
not have even got a chance to play.
There were a few defining moments in the series, but my handling the
ball was certainly not one of them. A freak dismissal is just one
moment, it happened to Sachin Tendulkar in Mumbai too, and cannot
change the course of a Test too much.
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