Australia Regains Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Knocks India Out of WTC Final
Australia defeated India by six wickets on Sunday (January 5, 2025). With this win the Australian team has regained the Border-Gavaskar Trophy after a gap of 10 years.
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With this 1-3, India is out of the World Test Championship final. India was the only team to have played in the last two WTC finals. India had lost both finals against New Zealand and Australia respectively.
India started the latest series on a strong note with an emphatic victory at Perth, but Australia bounced back strongly to level the series at Adelaide. Australia took a 2-1 lead in the fourth Test at Melbourne and defeated India in the final Test.
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This win has also enabled Australia to enter their second successive World Test Championship final to be played at Lords in June. They will be up against South Africa.
Gautam Gambhir Hugs Virat Kohli, Picture Triggers Social Media Storm
India’s tour of Australia has already seen a retirement take place in the form of Ravichandran Ashwin while talks around Rohit Sharma’s exit from the longest format of the game have also intensified after his absence from the final match in Sydney. However, as India suffered a 6-wicket defeat in Sydney, with the result eliminating them from the World Test Championship final race as well, a picture featuring India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir, and Virat Kohli triggered a storm on social media.
Gambhir was seen hugging Kohli while they were waiting for the post-match presentation to start. While there’s been talk about Virat’s future in India’s Test team as well, owing to a poor run of form Down Under, some fans got worried, wondering if the batting icon is about to make an announcement over his future as well.
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