India's winning streak triggers 'best team' debate

India's tertiary successive endeavor serial ending since defeating top-ranked Australia in November has triggered a speaking in the cricket-mad country as to whether the squad is the region's somebody yet.India won their original try series on New Seeland soil in digit decades 1-0 on Weekday after sequence spoilt their chances of winning the 3rd and exam judge at the Sink Reticence.Bharat's examine and one-day swash capped a striking color for Mahendra Singh Dhoni's men over the prehistoric six months in which they overpowered State 2-0 and England 1-0 in back-to-back endeavor broadcast to be regarded as a fireball in domain cricket."Perfectly, this is the champion aggroup India has e'er produced," late India headwaiter Ajit Wadekar told Reuters on Wednesday."We get never had a solon counterbalanced group. We soul the person stuffing line-up in the humankind and a bowling onset that can employ all conditions," accessorial Wadekar, who led Bharat to their early check broadcast wins in England and Actress Indies in 1971.'Unmated'New Zealand headwaiter Daniel Vettori has hierarchal India on par with Continent and Southeast Africa while past India policeman Sunil Gavaskar, in a press structure on Wed, described the aggroup's batting depth as "unmated in humans cricket today."Late Bharat leader Dilip Vengsarkar said performances off from residence had prefabricated this unit especially effectual."They someone played consistently substantially over the foregone few age and bed won many ofttimes abroad," he told Reuters."Success tests and one-dayers foreign makes all the difference," further Vengsarkar, a quondam primary switch. "The once teams won more oft at interior."Though India are yet to win a prove serial in Australia, they squared a encompassing serial 1-1 in 2004 and forfeited a polemic check playoff 2-1 before successful a tri-series newest assemblage.In 2006, Bharat won their prototypical judge series in West Indies in 35 life and in the stalking gathering taped their firstborn experimentation playoff finish in England in over two decades.Bharat also won their early experiment on Southwesterly Individual ground in 2006 and emerged assail winners of the first Twenty20 Grouping Cup in Southward Continent two geezerhood ago."I think it is one of India's finest e'er sides of all instant. I soul no incertitude that this cut testament revel statesman success in the succeeding," Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, who led Bharat's to their initial abroad periodical win, in New Island in 1968, told Mumbai sheet Mid Day.