What a fantastic way to end the Test Series, Which started with scoring the lowest test score of 36 in test history in the first test match. A lot of speculations were around about the test series like Australia will sweep the test series, Indian cricket team will be scattered without Virat Kohli and like that from the many former cricket legends.
Let’s rewind ourselves a bit and go straight to the 2nd test match from where the things turn around. In absence of Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane took charge of Team India and the story of the series took a sharp turn.
In Spite of trailing the series by 1-0 to Australia after the first test match, India won the series by 2-1 and created history. This test series win for India is unique in many ways and against all the odds. Take a look at the records and key events made and broken during this historic series:
Debuts for India in the series:
Mohammed Siraj Debut: Siraj made his debut in the 2nd test match of the series.
Navdeep Saini Debut: Saini made his debut in the 3rd test match.
Washington Sundar Debut: Sundar debuted in the 4th Test Match of the series and made a mark in the first test itself. He took 4 wickets and scored 84 runs in the test match.
T Natarajan Debut: India tour of Australia got lucky for Natarajan. He made his debut in all three formats T20I, ODI and Tests.
Shubman Gill Debut: 3rd youngest player to score a half century in fourth innings of a Test in Australia.
Player of the match in Brisbane Test: Rishabh Pant
Player of the tournament: Pat Cummins
Notable Records:
1. Australia has been 32 years unbeaten at Gabba between 1989 to 2020. The streak is now stopped by Team India.
2. 328 vs Australia in Gabba Test is the 3rd highest successful run chase for India in a Test. Top 2 are 406 vs West Indies in 1975/76 and 387 vs England in 2008/09.
3. 328 vs Australia in Gabba Test 3rd highest run chase against Australia in Australia.
4. Rishabh Pant touched the 1000-run mark in Test cricket on Tuesday. Pant, who played a much important role in the win, became the fastest Indian wicketkeeper to reach the 1000-run mark. He took just 27 innings and broke MS Dhoni’s 32 innings record.
5. The Day 5 of the Gabba Test also witnessed a batting record related to another Indian. Cheteshwar Pujara, who played a 56 off 224 ball innings, stood still before the Aussie attack and played his slowest fifty. His 50 came in 196 balls. Pujara had hit his last 50 in 174 balls in Sydney.
6. Pujara, who has been the backbone of Indian batting overseas, bagged another record on 5th day of 4th Test Match. The right-hander now, in his three tours (2014/15, 2018/19, 2020/21) of Australia, has aggregated 993 Test runs in 2657 balls in 21 innings @127 balls per innings! Only Marnus Labuschagne is above Pujara with Most Test balls faced in Australia since 2018. Labuschagne has played 2,586 balls.
7. Pujara is the only Indian now with most 200+ ball innings (9) against Australia. Sunil Gavaskar had 8, Tendulkar 7 and Virat Kohli had 6 under his belt.
8. India used a record number of players (20 in the series – the most any team has used in an away series in the history of Test cricket. The previous most was 18 players used by England in the 2013-14 Ashes in Australia, and by West Indies on a tour to South Africa in 1998-99.
9. World’s number 1 bowler Pat Cummins claimed the most number of wickets (23) in the series against India, followed by compatriot Josh Hazlewood (17) and Indian bowler Mohammed Siraj (13).
Indian team jumped to the top in the ongoing World Test Championship. India is playing their next series in India against England which is going to start from 5th Feb.
So get ready for the Upcoming England tour of India having the 4 Tests, 5 T20Is and 3 ODIs. Visit us to stay tuned to the upcoming series.
