Jasprit Bumrah and Pat Cummins. (Source – Getty Images)
After the long wait, Australia will take on India in the first Test of the Border Gavaskar Trophy on Friday, November 22, at the Optus Perth Stadium, in Perth. This series will be the key series for both the teams in perspective of the World Test Championship Finals. This series will play a crucial role in deciding the two teams in the WTC Final.
Australia are playing a test match after eight months. Australia is coming back from the disappointment of losing the GABBA test against the young West Indies team. Australian players are fully prepared for this Border Gavaskar Trophy as many of their players took part in the Sheffield Shield Trophy in addition to preparing for this series which was helped recently. Australia is very desperate to win this series as they lost the last four Border Gavaskar Trophy and it will also confirm their chance in the WTC Final.
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On the other hand, India is coming back from the disappointment of getting whitewashed for the first time on home soil (3 or 3+ Match Series). There is a huge pressure on Gautham Gambhir and the Indian team regarding the Border Gavaskar Trophy. India has to win the series to stay in the hunt for the WTC Final. So this series will be very Important and Crucial series for India. India will lose the services of Skipper Rohit Sharma because of personal reasons and will join the team during 1st test. Because of fitness concerns India did not rush to pick Mohammed Shami in the squad. India will be without these two key players for the Test.
Let us look at the stats and numbers ahead of the AUS vs IND Test:
21 – Virat Kohli (1979) needs Twenty-one runs to complete 2000 runs in the Border Gavaskar Trophy.
4 – Rishabh Pant (296) needs 4 fours to complete 300 fours in Test Cricket.
19 – KL Rahul (2981) needs nineteen runs to complete 3000 runs in Test cricket.
2 – Shubman Gill (198) needs two fours to complete 200 fours in Test Cricket.
26 – Ravichandran Ashwin (3474) needs 26 runs to complete 3500 runs in test cricket.
4 – Ravichandran Ashwin (396) need four fours to complete 400 fours in test cricket.
15 – Ravindra Jadeja (85) need fifteen wickets to complete 100 wickets in the Border Gavaskar Trophy.
4 – Ravindra Jadeja (46) needs four catches to complete 50 catches in Test Cricket.
15 – Travis Head (385) needs fifteen fours to complete 400 fours in test cricket.
8 – Usman Khawaja (592) needs eight fours to complete 600 fours in test cricket.
2 – Mitchell Marsh (48) needs two wickets to complete 50 test wickets in test cricket.
4 – Pat Cummins (46) need four wickets to complete 50 wickets in the Border Gavaskar Trophy.
6 – Mitchell Starc (44) need six wickets to complete 50 wickets in the Border Gavaskar Trophy.
89 – Virat Kohli (1979) needs eighty-nine more runs to beat Sachin Tendulkar (2067) for the most runs in the Border Gavaskar Trophy in Australia.