The Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024/25 is on the cards and the excitement is reaching its peak. Team India will travel to Australia for a five match Tests series starting from November 22 in Perth. Australia have not won the series since the 2014/15 one at home and India have won four series on the trot (2 at home and 2 away from home).
The last Test series in Australia in 2020/21 was a rollercoaster of emotions. India were rocked back early in the first Test when they were bowled out for just 36 and lost the game. Everyone felt that India will be whitewashed in the tour especially with their captain and the best batter, Virat Kohli, leaving the team due to the birth of his first child.
However, the team under Ajinkya Rahane scripted a memorable comeback and won the Boxing Day Test match at the MCG to level the series. The former Indian captain, Virat Kohli, has now talked about his emotions ahead of the MCG Test match in 2020/21 series.
Virat Kohli heaps praise on the young boys who turned the tide at the MCG in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2020/21
He said that he was jumping up and down and shouting back at his home with the fall of every wicket at the MCG. Kohli also commended the character shown by the young group of players who were led beautifully by Rahane.
He said: “I will be very honest before the Melbourne Test I was a bit anxious, but then the way the whole team played in Melbourne, I was cheering every ball, jumping up from the couch every now and then. Every time a wicket fell, I was shouting probably not as loud as I am on the field, still though the cheers were loud enough for the stuff to be heard everywhere in the house. So, Melbourne was really the game that I felt like this is exactly what the team needed. The kind of character and belief shown by the young guys led beautifully by Jinx (Ajinkya Rahane) in those three Test matches.”
The MCG Test match turned the tide for India as India showed yet another fight back to draw the third Test match in Sydney before going on to breach Australia’s fortress at the Gabba in the fourth Test.
