New Delhi. The Australian team (India vs Australia Border-Gavaskar Trophy) has reached India to play the Border-Gavaskar series of 4 Tests. Australia is eyeing to end 19 years of drought. The last time Australia won a Test series in India was 19 years ago. Since then he has had to return empty handed. This time too, even though Australia has started filling the air of victory, it has started the mind game for this. But it is not going to be easy for the kangaroos to cross the ‘final frontier’.
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Team India Can Spoil Australia’s Hopes
If Rohit Sharma’s team India keeps only 3 Australian players under control in the entire series, then once again Australia will have to return empty-handed and India’s ticket to the final of the World Test Championship will be confirmed. After all, who are those 3 players, by stopping whom Team India can destroy Australia’s dreams. The first name in this list is of Steve Smith.
Smith had hit 3 Centuries on the Last tour of India
Smith is the only player in the Australian team on the tour of India, whose average is 30 or more in India. Steve Smith has the best average in Tests in India after Dean Jones (92.75) and David Boon (65.00). He has scored 660 runs in 12 innings of 6 Tests in India at an average of 60. Apart from him, there is no such batsman in the current team, whose average is more than 30 in India. Smith scored 499 runs in 4 Tests with the help of 3 centuries on the last tour of India in 2016-17. That is, if the Indian bowlers stop them, then half of Team India’s work will be done. Because many Australian players have come to India for the first time to play Test.
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Lion Averages Over 30 in India
Australia’s off-spinner Nathan Lyon is the second player in this list. Lion will be Australia’s biggest trump card on India tour. Lion is the only spinner who has good experience of bowling in India. He is counted among the best spin bowlers of the current era. His recent record is proof of this. In 2022, Lion was second in the list of bowlers taking the most wickets in Tests.
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Agar didn’t Even Play Test in India
Lion took 47 wickets in 11 Tests in 2022 at an average of 29.06. But, there is no power in the lion’s roar in India. He has taken 34 wickets in 7 Tests in India at an average of 30.58. He has not been able to take 10 wickets in a match even once in India. Now even though Lion is claiming this, he has come with special preparations for the tour of India. But, the problem for him is that he will have to support bowlers like Ashton Agar and Mitchell Swepson from the other end. Agar has not played a single Test in India.
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Cummins-Hazlewood’s Record in India is not Very Good
Now it comes to Test’s number-1 bowler and Australia’s captain Pat Cummins. Cummins is the highest wicket-taker in the current World Test Championship after Nathan Lyon (61 wickets). He has taken 50 wickets in 13 Tests in the second cycle of the World Test Championship. But, his record in India is not strong. Cummins has taken 8 wickets in 2 Tests at an average of over 30.
At the same time, Josh Hazlewood’s average is also 33. He has played 4 Tests in India so far and has taken 9 wickets. That is, the trio of Cummins, Hazlewood and Stark, which have proved to be the era for batsmen all over the world, have not been able to perform in India so far. In such a situation, no matter how much mind games Australia plays. He knows that it will not be easy to stop Team India riding on the chariot of victory.
