Record, reputation at stake!
Updated On: 09 March, 2023 09:44 AM IST | Ahmedabad | R Kaushik
India’s recent win-loss ratio at home is second to none and they wouldn’t want to hamper that by going down to Australia at Ahmedabad for 2-2 result; WTC final spot also up for grabs
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India’s Umesh Yadav, Cheteshwar Pujara (centre) and Kuldeep Yadav (right) at a training session at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Motera, in Ahmedabad on Tuesday. Pic/AFP
‘Friendship through 75 years of cricket’. Huge banners with this message and the photographs of the Prime Ministers of India and Australia respectively, Narendra Modi and Anthony Albanese, are hard to miss throughout the drive from the city to the stadium named after the Indian PM, where the final, decisive act in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series will be played out from Thursday with the two dignitaries gracing the first morning’s proceedings.
No on-field drama
In direct contrast to flashpoints galore in previous standoffs between India and Australia, this ongoing skirmish has been remarkably incident-free, all the drama restricted to the spitting, fizzing, scooting, turning little red orb that has made batting a fiercely risk-prone proposition. Just one century and seven further knocks in excess of fifty in three full Test matches speaks to the stranglehold of the spinners in particular, Australia bouncing back from hammerings in the first two games to hit back through their tweakers, Nathan Lyon, Todd Murphy and Matt Kuhnemann, in the seven-session victory in Indore.
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