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Test narrative veers further from expectations – Sydney Morning Herald

A record seventh-wicket partnership between a pair of Indian no-names stretched belief – and this series – to the wire.

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And then came Thakur and Washington (pause for spell check; no, not that Washington). The fact of their partnership was a freak, but there was nothing freakish about how they compiled it. Thakur played with nuggety resolve and punchy drives. The taller, slimmer, younger Washington displayed left-handed languidness. From the first ball, his drives were so smooth they oozed.
They stood up to the quicks gamely, and went about Nathan Lyon in a way that brought back memories of Stuart MacGill’s complaint…

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