Five Test matches have been scheduled between November 22, 2024, and January 7, 2025. For the first time, the five-test series in the Border-Gavaskar series preceded the four-test series.
India won the previous two series in Australia for the first time; India won the series in Australia in 2018-19, then the 2020-21 series fans hope India will hattrick win the series in Australia. But this time it’s not easy to win the series after India lost by 3-0 at home to New Zealand. Even India’s batting is struggling, especially senior players like Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. Rohit Sharma, last 10 innings scored 18 and 11, 0 and 8, 2 and 52, 23 and 8, and 6 and 5. Virat Kohli, last 10 innings, scored 4 and 1, 1 and 17, 0 and 70, 47 and 29*, and 6 and 17.
First Test in Perth (November 22-26, 2024), Second Test in Adelaide (December 6-10, 2024), Third Test in Brisbane’s Gabba (December 14-18, 2024), Fourth Test in Melbourne MCG (December 26-30, 2024), and Fifth Test at Sydney SCG (January 3-7, 2025). The second test match will be a day-night match, and the fourth test match will be a boxing day test. In the last tour, India won the boxing day test match and lost the day-night match.
India’s squad:
Batsmen: Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, and Sarfaraz Khan,
All Rounders: Washington Sundar, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, and Nitish Reddy.
Wicket Keepers: Rishabh Pant, Dhruv Jurel, and KL Rahul.
Bowlers: Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, and Harshit Rana. India’s team has some weak players: Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Siraj, Rohit Sharma, and Virat Kohli.
Virat Kohli has been out of form for the last 5 years. Even Rohit Sharma has been out of form, struggling to stay in cease. Mohammed Siraj took 6 wickets in the last 4 test matches (0/16), (2/84) and (0/16), (2/57 and 0/19), (2/30 and 0/32), and Prasidh Krishna was an ODI blower in the last test match he played against South Africa in Africa He played 2 test matches and took only 2 wickets with an average of 65.00.
In 2011-12, India toured Australia, and Indian senior players struggled. India lost the series with 4-0. Even this ended the careers of Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman.
The India vs. Australia Border-Gavaskar series will be telecast on Star Sports in India and live streaming on Disney+Hotstar.