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The Indian team has won the Border-Gavaskar Trophy for the last 4 times.
India and Australia will play the five-Test Border-Gavaskar Trophy later this year. This series between the two teams will start from November 22. Before this intense rivalry, Australia’s Usman Khawaja, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Marsh spoke to Star Sports.
37-year-old opener Usman Khawaja said- We have been the world number one and world number two teams for the last two years. We won the last World Test Championship against India. India has been winning the Border-Gavaskar Trophy for four consecutive times. Because of this, rivalry continues between the two teams. I know Indians love to beat Australia in any format of cricket.
Usman Khawaja has scored 5,451 runs in his test career.
Many times India won and many times we won: Mitchell Marsh Australia’s white ball captain Mitchell Marsh said- If you see the history, sometimes they (India) have won and sometimes we have won. Whenever this happens, a rivalry ensues. As you know there is friendship between us and their players…there is no hatred of any kind, but there is equal rivalry to win the match on the field. Similarly, we all get a chance to take cricket forward in any way.
Mitchell Marsh has scored 3 centuries in 42 matches of his Test career.
They know our condition: Josh Hazlewood Australian pacer Josh Hazlewood said- Playing against India is full of challenges, they know our conditions and like to play on it. You all know how challenging it is to play in Australia. Their (India’s) top order is fantastic no matter who plays. I played my debut series against them and we won it. I had dismissed Virat in that game.
Josh Hazlewood said, playing against India is full of challenges.
Cummins is desperate to win the series Earlier, regarding the Test series against India, Cummins had said, ‘This is a trophy which I have not won before. This is a trophy which not many players in our group have been able to win. We have achieved great things as a test group over the last few years. You try to win every series at home.”
Australian captain Pat Cummins is desperate to win the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Test series will start from 22nd November The 5 Test series between India and Australia will start from November 22 this year. The first test will be held in Perth. The second Test will be played in Adelaide, the third Test in Brisbane, the fourth Test in Melbourne and the fifth Test in Sydney from January 3.
India won the last four series India had defeated Australia 2-1 in its last two tours in 2018-19 and 2020-21. India have won all four previous series of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, including in India in 2016–17 and 2022–23, which also had a 2–1 result.
India at number-1 in WTC points table India is currently at the first position in the World Test Championship points table. India has 68.52% points percentage, while Australia is at second place with 62.50% points percentage. Bangladesh has registered its third win in this WTC cycle by winning the Test series against Pakistan. The team now has 33 points from 3 wins and 3 losses in 6 tests. The team has now overtaken West Indies, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka is at 7th with 33.33% points, Pakistan is at 8th with 22.22% points and West Indies is at 9th with 18.52% points.
