Are Indian cricket teams always aggressive?

Asked about the team's aggressive approach, Kumble said the "approach is not new to Indian team. It is wrong to say that in the past we were not aggressive."

I disagree with Kumble.Having watched and read about cricket for the last couple of decades; I stick my neck out and state that I have never seen an Indian cricket team as openly aggressive as the one which concluded the Australian tour.

Yes, there have been instances, when individual team members have shown aggression. The aggression was more often a result of some personal slight and may have a lasted an innings or the duration of a Test. The whole team as such has never exhibited aggression consistently.

This is the first instance when the team as such was aggressive. Their eagerness to confront the Australian’s at every turn was palpable. Be it cricketing skills or racism allegations or sledging or even umpiring, the Indians stood unblinking and toe to toe to the Australians. So much so, after the Sydney Test, the Australian’s were forced to step back, virtually swallow the racist allegations, tone down the sledging and worse, having always enjoyed the benefit of the doubt found themselves at the receiving end of quiet a few dubious umpiring decisions.

Needless to add, confronted with their combined onslaught, the Australian’s found their skills and confidence deserting them. They were reduced to calling Indian cricketers names on radio and had to seek recourse of their media to cook up some controversy or the other.

As I was saying, no other Indian cricket team had shown naked aggression before and Kumble is wrong in asserting that Indian cricket teams were always aggressive.