India v Australia Report Card

Featuring Aunt Abject Pessimism, Fraser-McGurk regret, the good news and talking up Virat Kohli

Aunt Abject Pessimism
Grade: C+

Australia and India finally began their World Cup tournament, four days after the opening match that had seen England totally stink up the joint, victims of a polite thrashing by those lovely and brutal New Zealand chaps.

But if you thought the defending champions’ tepid display there had been the ugliest thing England had i…