The anticipated five match Test series between India and Australia is expected to commence on November 22. The Border-Gavaskar Trophy is fictitious, and is of particular significance for the Indian cricket unit as the World Test Championship (WTC) final of the team hangs in the balance. India will have to achieve a 4-0 victory in Australia in order to secure an easy place in the title clash, or else they will have to wait for several other results to come to their rescue. Before the all-important series, India’s head coach and former cricketer Gautam Gambhir was invited on JioCinema to pick the player who can save a Test match by batting for 11 hours, and he answered: “All the top seven.”
There is a test series against Australia that many people including head coach Gambhir and few of the senior star players in the team tour have been attempting to tell the younger players about explaining that after the test series, one comes back a better cricketer.
Many young Indian players are in for a rude shock as the visitors have included as many as eight members of the squad to have never played Test cricket at the Australian ‘continent’.
The series will however not be all that easy for the likes of Yashaswi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Sarfaraz Khan, Nitish Reddy, Harshit Rana, Akash Deep and Prasidh Krishna who are all first timers in Australia and will have a lot to prove in the high profile tournament.
And who else, better than the band of Vishat Kohli and Ravichandran Ashwin who are on their fifth Test visits (2011-12, 14-15, 18-19, 20-21) and Jasprit Bumrah who is on his third red ball visit (2018-19, 20-21) will help in revisiting their thoughtful experiences from the previous series.
“Nayar explained in a video posted on bcci.tv last Thursday. “Prior to the onset of the game, Gauti bhai (Gambhir) had a conversation with the boys, we had some of the senior boys as well.”
“Booms (Bumrah), Virat, Ash (Ashwin) chatting with the fellows on how first they came here as kids with so many seniors around and how they sort of felt that once you finish an Australia series, you come back as a better version of yourself as a cricketer.”
“I feel the young boys are very eager, raring to go and want to make a mark for themselves by this tour of theirs.”
“Coming over here is also one of the hardest hurdles an Indian cricketer has to face and jumping over it, Nayar added.”