Former Indian player Ravi Shastri is tipping the side that he had coached to continue their recent dominance in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy and defeat Australia in the upcoming 5-match Test series.
India has won the last 2 Test series Down Under and has held onto the Border-Gavaskar Trophy since Australia claimed a 2-0 series triumph on home soil at the start of 2015. It has been almost a decade since the Aussies last won the coveted trophy.
While Australia gained some revenge over their rivals when they defeated India in the ICC World Test Championship final at The Oval last year, Shastri knows that Pat Cummins’ side will be keen to re-claim the Border-Gavaskar Trophy when the 2 teams meet for the Test series that will commence from November.
“The Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia over five Test matches is going to be a humdinger. India has beaten Australia twice on the last two tours and Australia has not got a hand on the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in almost a decade and that’s the reason why everyone will be waiting for these two heavyweights of Test match cricket over the last five to eight years to go head-to-head,” Shastri said as quoted by ICC.
“It is going to be one heck of a series and India have every chance of making it a hat-trick because they’ve got their bowlers fit and if they can bat well, they can tickle Australia once again,” Shastri added.
