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The fifth and last Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy will be played in Sydney from today. The match will start at 5 pm, the toss will take place at 4.30 am. Australia is leading 2-1 in the 5-match series. India won the first match by 295 runs. The second and fourth matches went to Australia. Whereas, the third match was a draw. India has not won in Sydney for 47 years.
Team India has not faced defeat at the Sydney Cricket Ground in the last 13 years. Last time he had to face defeat here in 2012. Since that defeat, the team has played three Test matches here. All three matches were draws. 13 matches have been played here between India and Australia since 1947. In this, Kangaroo team won 5 matches and 7 were drawn. At the same time, India has been able to win only one test. The team got this victory in 1978.
Match Details Date – 3 January Venue – Sydney Cricket Stadium Time – Toss – 4:30 AM, Match Start – 5:00 AM
Difficult for Rohit to play in the fifth test Rohit has completely failed in this series. He has scored 31 runs in 3 matches. Questions are being raised on Rohit’s captaincy in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. He was not a part of the Perth Test. Jasprit Bumrah captained that match and the team won. According to media reports, captain Rohit Sharma may keep himself out of the fifth test. In such a situation, Bumrah can captain in his place. Read the full news…
Australia also ahead in overall record
Top wicket taker of Bumrah series Indian vice-captain Jasprit Bumrah has taken 30 wickets in the series. He is the top wicket taker of the series. Whereas, Yashasvi Jaiswal is the top run scorer of the team. After him Nitish Reddy has scored 294 runs.
Head series top scorer Travis Head, who scored two centuries in this series for Australia, is the top scorer of the series. In the bowling department, captain Pat Cummins has taken the maximum 20 wickets for the team. Cummins played an important role in the team’s victory in the last match. He scored 49 runs in the first innings and took 3 wickets. Whereas, in the second inning he played an inning of 41 runs and took 3 wickets. He was chosen player of the match.
roll toss The team winning the toss in Sydney can bat first. So far 112 Test matches have been played here, in which the team batting first has won 47 matches. Whereas the team bowling first has won only 42 matches. 23 matches have been drawn here.
pitch report Sydney’s pitch is different from other pitches in Australia, here spin gets more help than pace. SCG pitch curator Adam Lewis said around 7mm of grass will be left on the pitch.
weather condition The weather will be good on the first day of the Sydney Test. According to weather website accu weather, there is a 9% chance of rain in Sydney on January 3. The temperature here on this day will be 25 to 18 degrees Celsius. There will be some clouds along with sunshine throughout the day. The wind will blow in the afternoon.
India’s possible playing 11 for both teams in Melbourne Test: Jasprit Bumrah (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, Ravindra Jadeja, Nitish Reddy, Washington Sundar, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj and Prasidh Krishna.
Australia’s playing-11: Pat Cummins (captain), Usman Khawaja, Sam Konstans, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Beau Webster, Alex Carey (wk), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon and Scott Boland.
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