Border Gavaskar Trophy: India vs Australia 5 Test matches series venue, squad.
India is touring Australia for 5 test matches series namely Border Gavaskar Trophy starting from 22nd November 2024. Both teams will be eager to dominate each other to make their place in the finals of the Border Gavaskar Trophy which is set to be played in June 2025 amongst the top 2 teams in the points table. To qualify for the finals of WTC without depending on any other team series, both the teams India and Australia will try to beat each other 4-0 in the Border Gavaskar Trophy. India is coming into this series with a disheartening series loss against New Zealand in a test series at home, this series loss at home was the first series lost for India at home after 12 years. New Zealand clean sweep India in this series with 3-0 which was another heartbreaking fact that this was the first time that India got a clean sweep in a test series at home. So, team India will be very pumped and focused for the series to regain their rhythm and fix their spot in the finals of WTC. This series will feature all the star players for both sides for Australia Steve Smith, Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and for India Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jaspreet Bumrah, and Rishabh Pant it’s likely reported that Indian captain Rohit Sharma may miss the first test match against Australia which is set to be played in Perth on 22 November due to his personal family reasons.
The full schedule for the Border Gavaskar Trophy
1st Test: November 22, Opus Stadium, Perth, Start: 7:50 AM IST
2nd Test (Day-Night): December 6, Adelaide, Start: 9:30 AM IST
3rd Test: December 14, Gabba, Brisbane, Start: 5:50 AM IST
4th Test: December 26 (Boxing Day Test), Melbourne, Start: 5:00 AM IST
5th Test: January 3 (New Year’s Test), Sydney, Start: 5:00 AM IST
India squad for the series
Rohit Sharma (C), Jasprit Bumrah (VC), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant (WK), Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel (WK), R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar.
Where will the series be between telecast
The series will be telecasted on Star Sports Network for television viewers and the series will be streamed on Disney Plus Hotstar for other users.