When the Indian team broke the pride of the Australian team in Gabba.
The Indian team is currently on a tour of Australia in which it has come to play the 5-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy against the host team. Team India had performed well on the last two tours of Australia and won the Test series. While it is the most difficult task for any team to beat Australia in a Test match at home, the Indian team was successful in winning the Test series and that too 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 Team India to get the Border-Gavaskar Trophy back.
The Kangaroo team had thought something similar during Team India’s last Australian tour when the series was tied at 1-1 and the last match was to be played at the Gabba ground in Brisbane, which was said to be the impenetrable fort of the Australian team. It was one of the toughest challenges for any team to face Australia here. In such a situation, for Team India to save the test match and then win was no less than a historic moment. Today in this episode, we are going to tell you about 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 its inspiration from. We will tell you about this.
Team India gave a big lesson to Australia from the Monkeygate scandal of 2008.
In the year 2008, when the Indian team toured Australia under the captaincy of Anil Kumble, the Test match played on the Sydney ground in this series was surrounded by a lot of controversies, ranging from the decision of the umpires to the biggest controversy in the cricket world, the Monkeygate scandal. Also happened. In fact, Andrew Symonds, who was part of the Australian team at that time, had complained about Team India’s off-spinner Harbhajan Singh that he had called him a monkey, after which in this match, referee Mike Proctor, after a hearing that lasted for about 4 hours, made racial remarks against Harbhajan. Was banned for three test matches with allegations of
Indian cricket fans had expressed their displeasure over this incident, after which BCCI had decided to call back the team in the middle of the tour. Understanding the seriousness of the incident, a former New Zealand judge John Henson was called and after this the case was heard in the 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 he had not made any kind of racial comment. At the same time, after hearing in this case, the former judge had ordered to overturn the decision of three Test matches and impose a fine of only 50 percent of his match fee on Harbhajan as no concrete evidence of any kind was found.
This was a big victory for the Indian team which gave a befitting reply to Australia, while after this a different kind of confidence was also seen within Team India, after which they won the next test match played in Perth. . From here, a different form of the Indian team was seen on the field, which had learned to answer Australia in its own language and due to this, a completely different atmosphere was seen on the field as well.
Indian team broke Australia’s fort in Gaba
At the Gabba ground in Brisbane, where the Australian team had not lost since 1988, it did not seem possible at all for Team India to defeat them, that too with a team in which many big names were missing at that time. Rohit Sharma also did not appear to be in much form in this series, while Team India’s fast bowling attack was also completely inexperienced in the Gabba Test. However, the enthusiasm of the young players and the way Team India was successful in drawing the Sydney Test match had given a lot of confidence to all the players. In this match, Tim Paine, who was captaining the Kangaroo team, had decided to bat first after winning the toss.
The first innings of the Australian team ended at a score of 369 in which Marnus Labuschagne played a century of 108 runs. Whereas in bowling for the Indian team, Natarajan, Shardul and Sundar took 3-3 wickets. When Team India came to bat in this match in its first innings, it had lost 6 wickets till the score of 186. From here, Washington Sundar and Shardul Thakur not only handled the innings but also batted aggressively and took the Australian team closer to the score. The first innings of the Indian team in this match ended at a score of 336 runs.
Siraj opened his claws, Australia’s innings ended at 294.
Mohammed Siraj, who is currently an important part of the Indian fast bowling department, was new to Team India at that time and for him, the Brisbane Test has been the most historic match of his career so far, in which he 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 while giving 73 runs in his bowling of 19.5 overs. Apart from this, Shardul Thakur also managed to take 4 wickets.
Gill showed the path 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 had got the target of 328 runs to win in the fourth innings at the Gabba ground in Brisbane. On the last day of the game, Team India had to score 324 more runs, in which Rohit Sharma’s wicket had fallen at the score of 18. From here, Cheteshwar Pujara, who had troubled the Australian bowlers throughout this Test series, handled the innings from one end, while from the other end, young batsman Shubman Gill worked to maintain the pace of runs, due to which the Indian team won continuously. Keep moving towards.
Gill 91 while Pujara returned to the pavilion after playing an inning of 56 runs in 211 balls. From there the match could have gone in any direction, but from here enters Rishabh Pant who is known for his fearless style and he not only scored 89 runs. Not only played an innings but also returned after giving victory to Team India, which was a historic victory in the history of Indian cricket which not only completely shattered Australia’s pride. Not only this victory was widely discussed in the entire cricket world.
