Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant
Indian cricket would like to forget the failures of last year and start the year 2025 in a new style. Team India will start the new year with the last and 5th Test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 against Australia. The last match of the series will be played in Sydney which will be very important for both Australia and India teams. If India wants to retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, then it will have to win the Sydney Test at any cost. At the same time, Australia will try to capture the Border-Gavaskar Trophy after a long time.
Sydney Test is also very important for Team India from the point of view of the final of the World Test Championship. If India loses this test match, then its hopes of going to the WTC final will be dashed. In such a situation, the visiting team would like to give its full strength in this last match. Taking a lesson from the previous defeat, Team India’s batsmen will have to take the responsibility of scoring runs in this match and will have to avoid giving away their wickets. Especially Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant, who were out playing careless shots in the last match.
New beginning in the new year
In this series, Virat Kohli is continuously getting out in the slips while trying to hit the outside balls. At the same time, Rishabh Pant was out after playing a bad shot in the first innings of the fourth Test against Australia in Melbourne. During this, Sunil Gavaskar, who was commenting, strongly criticized Pant for his ‘stupid’ shot. Now both these batsmen will have the responsibility of making a fresh start with the new year in Sydney.
If we look at the records of Pant and Virat in Sydney, the performance of both the batsmen has been amazing. Virat Kohli has scored 248 runs in 5 innings of 3 matches at an average of around 50, while Pant has scored 292 runs in 3 innings of 2 Test matches at an excellent average of 146. Virat has scored a Test century in Sydney while Pant has done a great feat by scoring a half-century apart from a century. Now there will be a competition between the two batsmen to overtake each other and also to leave behind Rahul Dravid and Cheteshwar Pujara.
Indian batsman who scored most test runs in Sydney
- Sachin Tendulkar- 785
- VVS Laxman- 549
- Cheteshwar Pujara- 320
- Rahul Dravid- 306
- Rishabh Pant- 292
- Virat Kohli- 248
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