Not really. I think India are a better all-round side than us, but have lost their momentum and confidence after Perth.
Last night didn't really inspire a heap of confidence that we will be at the top for a while to come.
Fair enough we got the early breakthroughs, but we should have rolled them a lot cheaper than we did.
For mine, I say it's a bit bloody rude to send the Indians to Perth for their last couple of matches before the finals when they haven't played there all summer. They get over there, struggle with the extra bounce, Brett Lee takes a few heads off, and all of a sudden they lose confidence in their stroke play.
Then they play Zimbabwe, who are on a hiding to nothing, and so also adopt a "let's crack some heads" attitude, give India a scare and they lose more confidence.
Then it's off to Melbourne, where the wicket is slower and less bouncy, and they have to readjust their game again. It's easy to be bundled out cheaply in that situation. And I dare say if, when we go to SL, a similar thing happened to us i.e. we play decent, bouncy wickets, then get sent to a low, slow, turning dustbowl for the big matches there'd be all sorts of outcry about playing conditions.
All the bowlers bowled well - surprisingly Harvey, though I would not expect that too often from him.
And the runs came from the usual suspects. What happens when Gilly, Hayden and Ponting fail to perform? We still don't know, and it inspires no confidence in me.
I think we'll be in for a tough time in SL.
