When the Indian team broke the pride of the Australian team at the Gabba.
The Indian team is currently touring Australia to play the 5-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy against the host team. Team India performed well in the last two tours of Australia and won the test series. While it is the toughest task for any team to beat Australia in a test match at home, the Indian team managed to win the test series and not once but twice in a row. In such a situation, Australia, for whom the Ashes series is very important, will not want to give any chance to the Indian team to regain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
The Kangaroo team had thought something similar during Team India’s last Australian tour when the series was tied 1-1 and the last match was to be played at the Gabba ground in Brisbane, which was said to be the Australian team’s impenetrable fort. It was one of the toughest challenges for any team to face Australia here. In such a situation, saving the test match and then winning was nothing less than a historic moment for team India. Today in this episode, we will tell you the story behind Team India’s victory in the Gabba Test match, in the first episode of Cricket Talks With Samip Rajguru, the story behind this victory and where the Indian team got inspiration from . We tell you about this.
Team India taught Australia a great lesson with the 2008 Monkeygate scandal.
In the year 2008, when the Indian team toured Australia under the captaincy of Anil Kumble, the Test match played at the Sydney ground in this series was surrounded by many controversies, ranging from the decision of the umpires to the major controversy in the In the world of cricket, the Monkeygate scandal also happened. In fact, Andrew Symonds, who was part of the Australian team at the time, had complained about Team India player Harbhajan Singh because he had called him a monkey, following which in this match, referee Mike Proctor, after a hearing which lasted for approximately 4 hours, he made racist comments against Harbhajan. He was suspended for three test matches with allegations of
Indian cricket fans expressed their displeasure over this incident, following which the BCCI decided to recall the team mid-tour. Realizing the seriousness of the incident, former New Zealand judge John Henson was called in and the case was then heard in Adelaide court. In this, Sachin Tendulkar was with Harbhajan from the Indian side, while Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke and Andrew Symonds were there from the Australian team. During the hearing of this case, Sachin said in his statement that Harbhajan had definitely used abusive words but had not made any kind of racial remark. At the same time, after hearing this case, the former judge ordered to overturn the decision of three Test matches and impose a fine on Harbhajan of only 50 per cent of his match fee as no concrete evidence of any kind was found. .
This was a great victory for the Indian team which gave a worthy reply to Australia, while after this a different kind of confidence was also seen within the Indian team after which they won the next test match played in Perth. From here on, a different form of the Indian team was seen on the field, which had learned to respond to Australia in their own language and due to this, a completely different atmosphere was also seen on the field.
Indian team breached Australia fort at Gaba
At the Gabba ground in Brisbane, where the Australian team had not lost since 1988, it did not seem possible that Team India could defeat them, even in a team that was missing many big names at the time. Rohit Sharma also did not look to be in much form in this series, while Team India’s fast bowling attack also did not have any experience in the Gabba Test. However, the enthusiasm of the young players and the way the Indian team managed to draw the Sydney Test match had given a lot of confidence to all the players. In this match, Tim Paine, captain of the Kangaroo team, decided to bat first after winning the toss.
The Australian team’s first innings ended with a score of 369 in which Marnus Labuschagne played a 108-run century. While in the Indian team’s bowling, Natarajan, Shardul and Sundar took 3-3 wickets. When the Indian team came to bat in this match in their first innings, they had lost 6 wickets to reach the score of 186. From here on, Washington Sundar and Shardul Thakur not only managed the innings but also batted aggressively and brought the Australian team on the scoreboard. The Indian team’s first innings in this match ended with 336 runs.
Siraj opened his clutches, Australia’s innings ended at 294.
Mohammed Siraj, who is currently an important part of India’s fast bowling department, was new to the Indian team at that time and for him, the Brisbane Test has been the most historic match of his career so far, in the one who helped the Australian team. Score 294 in the second innings played an important role. Siraj also made Labuschagne and Smith his victims. Siraj took 5 wickets and gave 73 runs in his bowling of 19.5 overs. Apart from this, Shardul Thakur also managed to take 4 wickets.
Gill showed the way to victory and Pant took it to the end.
Chasing the target in the fourth innings of a Test match is not an easy task for any team. The Indian team was targeting 328 runs to win in the fourth innings at the Gabba ground in Brisbane. On the last day of the game, the Indian team had to score 324 more runs, in which the wicket of Rohit Sharma fell with a score of 18. From here, Cheteshwar Pujara, who had troubled the Australian players throughout Throughout this Test series, he managed the innings from one end, while from the other, young batsman Shubman Gill worked to keep the pace of the runs going, due to which the Indian team won continuously. Keep moving towards.
Gill 91 while Pujara returned to the pavilion after playing 56 run innings off 211 balls. From there the match could have gone in any direction but here comes in Rishabh Pant who is known for his fearless style and not only scored 89 runs. He not only played one innings but also came back after giving the victory to the team of India, which was a historic victory in the history of Indian cricket that not only completely destroyed Australia’s pride. Not only was this victory widely discussed throughout the cricket world.
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