India set to take on Australia In Border Gavaskar Trophy-2023

Border-Gavaskar trophy-2023

The much awaited IND vs AUS test series i.e Border-Gavaskar trophy 2023 is scheduled to be commenced on Thursday 9^th February. The contest between these two teams are always fascinating to watch. This tournament was started in 1996 and the series is named after two successful cricketing legends, Sunil Gavaskar from India and Allan Border from Australia.

Venue and timming-

There will be four test matches in between 9^th February to 13^th March 2023. Four venues where the matches will take place are Vidarbha Cricket Stadium in Maharastra, Arun Jaitley stadium in new Delhi, HPCA stadium in Dharmasala, and Narendra Modi stadium in Gujrat. 

World test Championship

This series will be a deciding factor for India whether they can reach the finals of the World test championship since both the teams are currently in first and second position respectively. With India winning the series with a big margin of 4-0 3-0 or 3-1 against Australia will send them in the finals of the test championship.

Records-

 In previous 15 series among the two teams India have won 9 times and Aus have won 5 times and one series was drawn in 2003-04.Sachin Tendulkar still remains the most run scorer of this series with 3262 runs and Anil Kumble being the most wicket taker with 111 wickets.

 Team squads-

• India’s Test squad for the first two Tests against Australia: Rahit Sharma(Captain), KL Rahul(vice-captain), Subhman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KS Bharat(wk), Ishan Kishan(wk), R.Ashwin, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohd.Shami, Mohd.Shiraj, Umesh Yadav, Jaydev Unadkat, Suryakumar Yadav

• Australia Test squad: Pat Cummins(captain), Ashton Agar, Scott Boland, Alex Carey,  Cameron Green, Peter Handscomb, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Lance Morris, Todd Murphy, Mathew Renshaw, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Swepson, David Warner