5 takeaways for Australia from the India-Australia series

#4 Nathan Coulter-Nile and Kane Richardson

Image result for Nathan Coulter-Nile vs India — Coulter-Nile led Australia's bowling well

At the start of the series, it was suggested that Australia’s bowling would miss the services of their spearheads Starc and Hazlewood badly. But that wasn’t entirely the case. Coulter-Nile was exceptional in all five games.

Swinging the ball at the start, controlling the flow of runs in the middle and at the death. Every time Smith wanted a wicket, he would go to Coulter-Nile and more often than not he obliged. With 10 wickets, he was the highest wicket-taker of the series.

Richardson played just three games but made a big impact in all the games. Taking 7 wickets in 3 ODIs was a big effort from him. He was instrumental in Australia defending 334 in the fourth one-day as he picked up 3/58 (picking up wickets of Rahane, Jadhav and Dhoni).

Australia will be very happy with the performances of Richardson and Coulter-Nile as it gives them good backup options when their spearheads return.