Published: Sep 02, 2024, 12:39 PM (IST)
Edited: Sep 02, 2024, 12:39 PM (IST)
India’s upcoming 5-match Test series against Australia is arguably the most anticipated cricket event of the year. The fact that Australia has not been able to beat India in the Border-Gavaskar series since 2015 only adds to the interest of the viewers.
Ahead of the series, many former Australian players have predicted it to be a tense affair which may even go down to the final Test to determine the winner of the series. Former Australian pacer Geoff Lawson even stated that this series could very well turn out to be the series of the century so far.
Former Indian batter Sunil Gavaskar stated that the Aussies have already begun their mind games with both former and current players predicting in which favour the series would go.
“Already the mind games have begun with Australian players both current and former airing their views about what the result would be,” wrote Gavaskar in his column for Mid-Day.
“While they (Australia) are not making Glenn McGrath-like statements of a clean sweep they are still suggesting that Australia will prevail. Sadly, apart from Ravi Shastri no other former or current player has seen to counter the mind games which the Aussies are so good at,” Gavaskar added.
Gavaskar then said that the veteran Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin could have a say in the result of the series and teased that the spinner has also been developing a ‘special delivery’ in particular for Australian batter Steve Smith ahead of the much-awaited series.
“Maybe Ravichandran Ashwin should start telling us about a special delivery that he is developing for Steve Smith, that is of course if he continues to open the batting and can survive Jasprit Bumrah,” Gavaskar wrote.
The Border-Gavaskar series is set to begin on November 22 with the first match to be held in Perth.
