From the team’s ball-tampering scandal to an image rebuilding exercise, The Test is an eight-part series of the Australian cricket team. The docu-series covers many aspects of the team and also about their rivals.
Talking about one such incident in the series is Australian cricketer Marcus Stoinis. The all-rounder said that the Indian players who are not playing in the team are way more talented than him.
"India is the most talented team in the world. Hands down. The players not playing are way more talented than me," Stoinis said in the documentary on Amazon Prime.
In 2018, India had a successful tour of Australia, winning Test series 2-1, ODIs 2-1, and drawing the shortest format 1-1. Coming back from a victory down-under, the Indian team were confident of hosting the Kangaroos at home in the five-match ODI series. India took the early 2-0 lead in the series, but faced three consecutive defeats and ended with the series with a 2-3 loss.
"I love playing in India. I love the culture - its unmatched energy. It heightens all your senses. If you can harness all that excitement, that energy there is no way you can rock up there and not be motivated to play," he added.
Not just Stoinis, head coach Justin Langer also said that Virat Kohli had got under their skin during India’s successful tour down under in 2018-19. Kohli’s celebrations had managed to anger Langer but he could not be expressive about it.
“I remember that afternoon (feeling) like a punching bag. We can’t fight back because it felt like we had our hands behind our backs and we just had to take it,” Langer said in Amazon’s recently released docu-series titled ‘The Test’.
“You must be feeling the double standards the way their captain is carrying on and we sort of have to be careful. Imagine if we behaved two out of ten (of) that,” he said.
“We were 1-0 down but I felt that day Virat was getting under our skin,” Langer added after Kohli gave a send-off to a couple of Australian batsmen in the second innings.
Langer gave his boys permission to take on Kohli but warned them not to cross the line between banter and abuse. “There is a difference between abuse and banter. There is no room for abuse. We don’t need to abuse him but there is banter where you stick up for your mate.”
