Vinay Kumar
The third match of Border Gavaskar Trophy Test Series, 2023 between India and Australia has been shifted from Dharamshala to Indore. Significantly, in the first match of this series played in Nagpur, India defeated Australia by an innings and 132 runs. The second match of the series is to be played in Delhi from February 17 to 21. The third match, which was to be played in Dharamshala from March 1, will now be played in Indore from March 1 to 5. Significantly, BCCI has shifted the Dharamshala Test match to Indore in view of bad weather.
The third and final Test match of the Border Gavaskar Trophy Test Series, 2023 will be played from March 9 to March 13 at the Narendra Modi International Cricket Stadium in Ahmedabad. If India wins 3 matches in this series, they will qualify for the final of ICC World Test Championship, 2021-23.
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Significantly, Holkar Cricket Stadium of Indore (AUS vs IND 3rd Test Match Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore) will also not be easy for Australia. Because, from this series, this stadium hosted 2 Test matches in the year 2016 and 2019, New Zealand vs India Indore Test Match and Bangladesh vs India Indore Test Match, in which Team India won both the matches by a huge margin. Was. It is believed that the pitch of Indore is particularly helpful to the spinners.
In such a situation, Ravichandran Ashwin can once again prove to be fatal for Australia. Remind you that Ravichandran Ashwin took 18 wickets on this pitch in the 2 Test matches played earlier, his best performance being 13 for 140 against New Zealand. In the first innings of that 5-day Test match played from October 8, 2016, Virat Kohli scored 211 runs in 366 balls with the help of 20 fours.