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On this day: Rishabh Pant’s knock for the ages helps India conquer the Gabba fortress | Cricket News

On this day: Rishabh Pant’s knock for the ages helps India conquer the Gabba fortress | Cricket News

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India’s series win against Australia in 2018/19 was seen by many as one of the most significant moments in the team’s Test history. However, there is a good chance that Indian fans might not even place that among the favourite memories of seeing their side play Test cricket in Australia. That position might be taken by what India went and did in their subsequent tour Down Under, all of which culminated in Rishabh Pant etching his name permanently in the fond memories of cricket fans from his country and India confirming a second consecutive series win in the country by becoming the first team to beat Australia at the Gabba since Viv Richards’s world-beating West Indies side of 1988. Then 2018/19 series may have been the first time that an Asian team had beaten Australia in a Test series played at the latter’s home. At the same time, there were some murmurs of the fact that this was an Australian side still recovering from 2018 ball tampering scandal and without Steve Smith and David Warner. …

‘We hold a few more cards than they do’ : Mitchell Starc on chances of his team enforcing follow-on against India at Gabba | Cricket News

‘We hold a few more cards than they do’ : Mitchell Starc on chances of his team enforcing follow-on against India at Gabba | Cricket News

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With his team posting a first innings’ total of 445 and India struggling at 51 for 4 in their first innings at the end of the third day’s play in the third Test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy at the Gabba, there is a possibility of Australia enforcing a follow-on with only two days remaining in the match. India were last asked to follow-on in a Test match at The Oval in 2011 and post that there have been three instances when opponent teams could have enforced a follow-on but chose not to do so. Australian pace spearhead Mitchell Starc shared that his team holds a few more cards than India do in the match when asked about the possibility of a follow-on. “Yeah, I mean at 4 for 50, we hold a few more cards than they do. So yeah, certainly that. You know, the two days of no bowling to start the Test match plays a part in that with back-to-back Tests. There is plenty in the wicket, tomorrow’s going to dictate what …

Border-Gavaskar Trophy: ‘We were really, really nervous. We just didn’t lose there,’ says David Warner on 2021 Gabba loss | Cricket News

Border-Gavaskar Trophy: ‘We were really, really nervous. We just didn’t lose there,’ says David Warner on 2021 Gabba loss | Cricket News

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While the Gabba plays host to the third Test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy between India and Australia starting Saturday, the Rohit Sharma-led Indian team will hope to get motivation from the historic fourth Test match win at the ground in the 2020-21 iteration of the series. India won the series 2-1 with a three-wicket win at Brisbane and ended Australia’s 33-year-old unbeaten record at the venue. Former Australian opener David Warner recalled how the Australian team led by Tim Paine were nervous about the last Test match of the series at the Gabba. Unlike other series, Brisbane hosted the last Test match of the four-Test series with both the teams level at 1-1 in the series. With Australia having won 42 Test matches out of a total of 62 Test matches till that Test, Gabba had been Australia’s stronghold before Indian conquered the Gabba. “It was just a venue that Australia does not lose at but we were nervous, really, really nervous. We just didn’t lose there. You feel like you’ve got that sort …

IND vs AUS: Australian cricket’s trend of diminishing successes as Test series advances to 3rd, 4th, 5th matches | Cricket News

IND vs AUS: Australian cricket’s trend of diminishing successes as Test series advances to 3rd, 4th, 5th matches | Cricket News

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Australia have a “curiously poor record across the third, fourth and fifth Tests of series since 2018” according to an analysis in Code Sports website of Australia. It’s what might have dictated a few load-management calls in the Australian ranks, including preserving Pat Cummins’ fitness as he didn’t play in the Sheffield Shield so the home team could “finish the five-Test series strongly.” As the cricket jamboree moved east from Adelaide to Brisbane, there were concerns of the spectre of the recurring theme pointed out by CricViz stats. These say, “that the longer a series progresses, the worse off the Australian attack fares.” The ratio of one in every four Tests it plays once a series reaches the third Test, drops to below one in five, when the series stretches out to the fourth and fifth Tests. This trend was noted during the last Ashes and the deciding Test of the last India tour. This didn’t stop Pat Cummins’ side from claiming the World Test Championship or holding the Ashes since 2018, but the devil …

What to expect in Gabba: Heat, bounce, pace and intensity | Cricket News

What to expect in Gabba: Heat, bounce, pace and intensity | Cricket News

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“They are playing at pitch no.4. That’s the bounciest of the lot. The pitch where Mitchell Johnson terrorised England in 2013 with a nine-wicket haul. I expect it will seam a bit on the first day and quicken up with more pace and bounce on the second day.” That’s Kevin Mitchell Jr, an ex-curator of the Gabba for 33 years. “The job for your Indian batsmen is cut out. For that matter, the Aussies too. Both teams’ batsmen aren’t in flush form, are they? Travis Head saved the day at Adelaide, else it could have got tricky for Australia too.” Not long ago, a Test against South Africa got done in two days here, but that track had a lot of grass. This one, though, has already seen a change in colour. The overly grassy-green of Wednesday evening is gone after a few cuts, and it looks firm. “I think it will be quick and bouncy, It will be an interesting toss, especially if it is cloudy and humid,” Mitchell Junior says. Batsmen from both …

Is Travis Head vulnerable early at Gabba and are Shubman Gill’s dwindled overseas returns a concern? | Cricket News

Is Travis Head vulnerable early at Gabba and are Shubman Gill’s dwindled overseas returns a concern? | Cricket News

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The ledger is all square before Gabba again. With South Africa highly likely to nail one World Test Championship final spot, India and Australia find themselves in a three-match shootout to confirm a ticket to Lord’s next summer. The Aussies though have some cushion with the Sri Lanka tour at the start of next year. The two-match series will leave them some room if they do not earn the three wins required to qualify in this series. Both require at least two wins from the rest of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy to remain on the road and will enter Brisbane with a mishmash of form, confidence and memories. Despite the morale-boosting Adelaide comeback, Pat Cummins’ men will be wary of memories of their last outing at the venue last January, and the the famous ‘21 cauldron breach, when the Indians were in town. A string of cris-crossing streaks and concerns could likely formulate the talking points this weekend, starting with Australia’s Adelaide Superman. Head’s Gabba kryptonite Travis Head’s manic willow-wielding has left Rohit Sharma and Co. …

‘Rohit Sharma is overweight and a flat-track bully’: Former SA batter says Indian captain’s days are numbered | Cricket News

‘Rohit Sharma is overweight and a flat-track bully’: Former SA batter says Indian captain’s days are numbered | Cricket News

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Former South Africa batter Daryll Cullinan has scathingly assessed Rohit Sharma’s cricketing future, calling the Indian captain a “flat-track bully.” The 57-year-old Cullinan, who scored over 8,000 international runs for South Africa, also made a blunt remark about Rohit’s physical condition heading into the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia, describing him as overweight and out of shape. Cullinan also compared Rohit’s fitness to his teammates, including former captain Virat Kohli. “Look at Rohit, then at Virat. Notice the difference in their physical condition. Rohit is overweight, and not a long-term cricketer anymore. Rohit is not in a good physical condition for the hard grind of a four or a five-match Test series,” Cullinan told Insidesport. Rohit has endured a lean patch since India’s home Test season in September, scoring only one fifty in his last 12 Test innings. Following India’s first Test win under Jasprit Bumrah’s leadership in Perth over Australia, Rohit returned in Adelaide in a middle-order spot. The 37-year-old moved down to No. 6, with KL Rahul partnering Yashasvi Jaiswal at the top. Rohit …