What a zabardast start to the Border-Gavaskar Trophy! An investigation needs to be held as soon as possible.  Who were those cricketers wearing Indian national team’s uniforms that turned up in Perth over four days and solidly trounced Australia on their own patch of Harvey River clay? There were some familiar names but not familiar recent performances. Was this the same India who found the guile of New Zealand tweakers too much to handle despite the nominative advantage of playing on their own sub-continental dust heaps? Surely not.

Australia have as good an attack as any Test nation — fast, controlled, vastly experienced, balanced with righties and a leftie and throw in a 500-wicket spinner. Plus they were playing on the ‘fastest pitch in the world’ — surely a massive advantage for the home team.