During the post-series press conference here on Monday, Virat Kohli took a deep breath and uttered, "I feel that we have batted really well." In the historic series win Down Under, it has been the fast bowlers that have received all the praise and rightly so. But as Kohli rightfully stated, the batting, led by Cheteshwar Pujara deflated one of the best bowling attacks in their own backyard.

One must remember that the team management decided to send assistant coach Sanjay Bangar to Sydney before the second T20I v Australia in Melbourne, to work alongside the Test specialists. One of the keys to taming the Australian attack was to unravel Nathan Lyon. The Indian batsmen practised for substantial periods against balls that were hurled into bowler's footmarks outside the off stump. The theory was to upset Lyon's length by advancing at him.