There can be various reasons for this shift and the 2 that immediately come to my mind are India's historic victory in that 2001 series and the fact that since 2002, no other country has won even a single test match in Australia, while India has won 2!!! This rivalry shift is not limited to India only, and in Australia too, people now consider Border-Gavaskar trophy almost as big as Ashes. They have their own reasons for this: India has twice broke their record winning streak (and both times it was remarkable wins against all odds), Steve Waugh called India the final frontier, Ricky Ponting has been an utter failure with bat in India (scored next to nothing in 2001, and played only 1 match in 2004 - which apparently was the only match they lost) and even the great Shane Warne had nightmares about bowling to Indian batters, FOR Crictime Server 2 . Almost every cricket fan in Australia is looking forward to this forthcoming series, all of my colleagues at work are t...