Border Gavaskar Trophy

The most anticipated series of the 21st century is back!

This time it is bigger and better

5 Tests matches.

After two back-to-back wins, can India secure a hat-trick in Australia and stamp their authority?

Who will qualify for the WTC finals?

Top Order concern for 🇮🇳 & 🇦🇺

Steve Smith re-invented himself as an opener last season with middling success—12, 11*, 6, 91*, 31, 0, 11, 9 against West Indies and New Zealand.

All eyes will also be on the highly rated 25-year old Nathan McSweeney, who is coming off with soild form: 55 & 127* in the first Sheffield Shield match and 137 (131) in a List A match that followed. He ended with 39, 88*, 14, & 25 in the India A series.

For India, without Rohit and Shubman, India would have to go with an inexperienced trio of Jaiswal, Rahul/Easwaran, and Padikkal.

KL Rahul averages 40.02 batting at #1 with 4 hundreds & 8 fifties (41 innings) and 28.78 batting at No.2 with 3 hundreds & 4 fifties (34 innings).

Expected XIs

🇮🇳

1. Yashasvi Jaiswal,

2. KL Rahul,

3. Devdutt Padikkal,

4. Virat Kohli,

5. Rishabh Pant (WK),

6. Dhurv Jurel,

7. Ravichandran Ashwin,

8. Nitish Kumar Reddy,

9. Akash Deep,

10. Mohammad Siraj,

11. Jasprit Bumrah (C)

🇦🇺 XI

1. Nathan McSweeney,

2. Usman Khawaja,

3. Marnus Labuschagne,

4. Steven Smith,

5. Travis Head,

6. Alex Carey (WK),

7. Mitchell Marsh,

8. Pat Cummins,

9. Mitchell Starc,

10. Josh Hazlewood,

11. Nathan Lyon

...

Most runs scored by an Indian batters in Border Gavaskar Trophy in Australia:

Virat Kohli-692 runs (2014/15)

Rahul Dravid-619 runs(2003/04)

Cheteshwar Pujara-521 runs(2018/19)

VVS Laxman-494 runs(2003/04)

Sachin Tendulkar-493 runs(2007/08)

Murali Vijay-482 runs(2014/15)

Players to have scored 1000+ runs and claimed 10 wickets with the ball in the Border Gavaskar Trophy:

Michael Clarke-2049 runs,14 wickets

Virender Sehwag-1738 runs,10 wickets

Averages of Indian bowlers in Australia in test cricket, bowling a minimum of 750 deliveries:

Jasprit Bumrah-21.25

Ravindra Jadeja- 21.78

Kapil Dev- 24.58

Ravi Shastri- 26.31

Bishan Singh Bedi- 27.51

Shivlal Yadav - 28.13

Lala Amarnath - 28.15

Mohammed Siraj- 29.53

Bhagwath Chandrashekhar- 30.27

Karsan Ghavri- 30.52

Erapalli Prasanna- 31.12

Mohammed Shami- 32.16

Ajit Agarkar- 35.07

Zaheer Khan - 35.08

Rusi Surti- 35.2

Manoj Prabhakar -35.78

Anil Kumble- 37.73

Dilip Doshi - 40

Irfan Pathan- 41.25

Ravichandran Ashwin -42.15

Umesh Yadav - 44.22

Ishant Sharma - 48.54

Venkatapathy Raju-48.66

Javagal Srinath-50.7

Vinoo Mankad- 52.5

Harbhajan Singh -73.22

Most wickets by an Indian Bowler against Australia:

Ravichandran Ashwin -114

Anil Kumble-111

Harbhajan Singh-95

Ravindra Jadeja- 89

Kapil Dev- 79

Zaheer Khan- 61

Ishant Sharma- 59

Erapalli Prasanna -57

Bishan Singh Bedi - 56

Shivlal Yadav - 55

Umesh Yadav- 53

Mohammed Shami- 44

Most wickets by an Australian Bowler against India in test cricket:

Nathan Lyon-121

Brett Lee-53

Richie Benaud-52

Josh Hazlewood-51

Glenn McGrath- 51

Pat Cummins- 50

Mitchell Johnson- 50

Mitchell Starc- 48

Graham McKenzie- 47

Jason Gillespie- 43

Shane Warne-43

Most balls faced by an Indian batter in Australia in a test series:

Cheteshwar Pujara-1258 (2018/19)

Rahul Dravid-1203 (2003/04)

Vijay Hazare-1192 (1947/48)

Virat Kohli-1093 (2014/15)

Sunil Gavaskar-1032 (1977/78)

Cheteshwar Pujara-928 (2020/21)

VVS Laxman-906 (2003/04)

Murali Vijay-905 (2014/15)

The importance of the no.3 batter in Australia, spending time on the crease, you can see what Dravid and Pujara have done there... Big shoes to fill.