 "India vs Australia Test series: Adelaide in the fray to host another pink-ball Test, says report")
Adelaide will reportedly play host to another pink-ball Test between Australia and India when the two teams lock horns in a five-Test series in this year’s Border-Gavaskar Trophy Down Under.
According to WAtoday, the South Australian Cricket Association is lobbying to host the pink-ball match between the two heavyweights in the lead-up to Christmas.
The report further states that Perth’s Optus Stadium will likely host the series opener in November while the third Test will take place in Brisbane’s Gabba, where the Indians had completed a memorable triumph in January 2021.
The Boxing Day and New Year’s Tests starting 26 December and 3 January are set to take place at their traditional venues of the Melbourne Cricket Ground and Sydney Cricket Ground respectively.
According to a Cricket Australia spokesperson, however, the schedule for the 2024-25 Australian summer is yet to be finalised.
The Indian team does not have too many pleasant memories of the Adelaide Oval in recent years. Not only were the Men in Blue handed the knockout punch by England in the 2022 T20 World Cup at this venue, it was also at this venue where India were infamously bundled out for 36 and crashed to a disastrous defeat in December 2020.
India however, would go on to mount a heroic comeback after the Adelaide defeat, winning the Melbourne and Brisbane Tests while holding the Aussies to a hard-fought draw in Sydney to pull off a 2-1 series win and complete back-to-back series triumphs Down Under.
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More ShortsAnd they’ll be hoping to pull off something similar in the five-Test series that takes place between November and January and will be Team India’s final assignment in the ongoing ICC World Test Championship cycle.
It will be a decade since Australia last defeated India in a Test series when the two sides meet later this year, with their last triumph in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy coming in the form of a 2-0 victory in 2014-15. Since then, India have won each of the last four Test series against the Aussies, winning the home legs in 2017 and 2023 as well as the away legs in 2018-19 and 2020-21 — all of them with a 2-1 scoreline.
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