New Delhi:
Border-Gavaskar series: The Australian cricket team won the prestigious Border-Gavaskar Trophy 3-1 after defeating India by 6 wickets at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Earlier, the Kangaroos had last defeated India 2-0 at home in this trophy in 2014/15. After this, India won the two BGT series held in Australia by 2-1. This series started as a defeat for the host team when India registered a resounding victory of 295 runs in the Perth Test. After this, Australia won three out of the next four Test matches. Earlier in the year 1997, Australia had defeated England 3-2 after falling behind in the series 0-1, whereas they had done this on their soil only in 1968/69 when they had defeated the West Indies team 3-1. However, an important record was made in the ended series. Let us know about 5 important records.

1. This time 1141 balls were bowled at Sydney Cricket Ground, which is the lowest since 1896. This shows that the pitch of this match was really challenging and Jasprit Bumrah, who was captaining in this match, also accepted this and said after the match that he missed bowling on the most suitable wicket for bowling in the entire series.

2. This is only the third time since 2000 that Indian cricket was out for less than 200 runs in both innings of any two matches of a Test series. This shows the batting struggles of the Indian cricket team in the BGT series.

3. Currently, things are far from perfection in Indian cricket. There are question marks on the form, captaincy and management of senior players. India has lost three matches in the last two Test series. Earlier, Team India had also lost 0-3 against New Zealand at home. The special thing is that this has happened only twice in the 2024/25 season.

4. In the Sydney Test, Scott Boland took 10 wickets for 76 runs in the match. He is only the second Australian fast bowler to take 10 wickets on this ground after the year 1900. Earlier, Glenn McGrath had taken 10 wickets for 103 runs here in the year 2000. Boland’s performance in this series was so tremendous that he even broke the image of a backup bowler. He came as a backup bowler and took 21 wickets at an average of 13.19.

5. Jasprit Bumrah took maximum 32 wickets in the series and proved to be the ‘Player of the Series’. Earlier, Indian fast bowler Kapil Dev had taken 32 wickets against Pakistan on his home soil in the year 1979/80. No other fast bowler of India has been able to take more wickets than this in a series. Kapil Dev then took 32 wickets at an average of 17.68. Whereas Bumrah took wickets at an average of only 13.06. Among the Indian bowlers, off-spinner Harbhajan Singh definitely took 32 wickets in the home series against Australia in 2001.