When Australia conquered the Final Frontier

In the latest episode of the podcast we look back on Australia's tour to India in 2004-05 - when Adam Gilchrist led the visitors to their first series win in India in 35 years. Australia have won just one Test in India since - and will hoping to improve that record in the upcoming four-Test series. Support us via Ko-Fi Talking Points: How 2004 was in many ways the sequel to 2001 If McGrath won't get you, Gillespie must Shane Warne's finest hour in India The emergence of Michael Clarke - and a special Bangalore hundred Adam Gilchrist's measured brutality Damien Martyn's expertise against spin When Kumble rocked Australia on day 1 in Chennai Virender Sehwag's unforgettable 155 - and the match that promised so much A curious case of 'greenwicketitis' in Nagpur Was Nagpur really an outlier pitch? Or was it just magnificent bowling? The most exciting Test of that series - on a raging turning in Mumbai Murali Kartik's moment, and the liberating Tendulkar-Laxman partnership Do the current Australian team have a bowling attack to win in India? Participants: Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee) Prashant DP (@prashantdptweet) Mahesh Sethuraman (@cornerd) * Buy War Minus the Shooting by Mike Marqusee | Buy Cricket Beyond the Bazaar by Mike Coward Related: True colours - Adam Gilchrist - Amazon The balls of the century - Shane Warne to VVS Laxman - Sharda Ugra - The Cricket Monthly Anatomy of a classic - Virender Sehwag on his 155 in Chennai - ESPNcricinfo Once upon a twinkle-toed debut - Siddhartha Vaidyanathan - ESPNcricinfo Wisden Reports - Australia in India 2004-05 - ESPNcricinfo John Wright's Indian Summers - Amazon India lose 35-year-old home record - Sharda Ugra - India Today Justin Langer chats with Gideon Haigh and Peter Lalor - Part 1, Part 2