Australia has gained the lately concluded Border-Gavaskar Trophy 3-1. Throughout the 5 Exams, the groups have contested at 5 completely different venues, getting uncovered to completely different circumstances. ICC has rated the pitches for the primary 4 Exams in Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, and Melbourne as “superb,” which is the best ranking. In the meantime, in Sydney, the place the sport resulted in two and a half days on a inexperienced seaming wicket, ICC has rated the pitch as ‘passable,’ which is the second highest class.
“The SCG has been striving to carry out their distinctive traits of early tempo and bounce earlier than the pitch wears and spins. This 12 months was a step in the proper route to attaining this which offered an thrilling end to the Border Gavaskar Trophy collection and bodes nicely for the Ashes summer season in 2025-26 mentioned Peter Roach, CA Head of Cricket Operations and Scheduling.
“We’re delighted by the standard of pitches produced,” Roach mentioned. “We encourage pitches that carry out the distinctive traits of that venue and this has lengthy been a function of Australian cricket. We strongly consider that this is among the causes that Take a look at cricket is so widespread in Australia. We don’t look to arrange wickets that favor the house aspect or go well with our scenario in a collection. We search a very good contest between bat and ball and pitches which might be prone to produce a end result,” he added.
Australia after shedding two back-to-series at residence towards India have gained their first bilateral Take a look at collection since 2014/15. India although began nicely in Perth by smashing the hosts by 295 runs Australia made a convincing comeback in Adelaide by successful with 10 wickets.
Due to rain the Third Take a look at in Brisbane the sport ended up in a draw. The fourth Take a look at at MCG which appeared like a draw until the ultimate session of the Take a look at match noticed India capitulating and shedding the Take a look at by 184 runs with an hour within the recreation left. Going into the ultimate Take a look at India had an opportunity to degree the collection and retain the trophy however couldn’t match Australia and misplaced by six wickets.
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