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india tour of australia, 2020-21

In the 27 series played in Australia this century (3-plus Tests), it was the first instance of both teams averaging under 30

Cricket Australia, who had backed the idea of four-day Tests earlier, have changed their stance after the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2020-21

Australia will now travel to South Africa following a shock 2-1 loss at home against a depleted India

The final day's play of the Gabba Test will be played and replayed for years to come, not just in India, but all around the globe

Coach Ravi Shastri and captain Ajinkya Rahane give a glimpse into India's approach after the series win

Did Rishabh Pant's Gabba heroics help him score well in professor Harsha Bhogle's report card? What score did skipper Rahane get? Watch and find out the player ratings for arguably the best Test series ever in history

On Cricbuzz Chatter, Harsha Bhogle shares his thoughts on how this riveting Australia-India series could reignite the love for Test cricket in the younger generation

Watch Harsha Bhogle reflect on a momentous Test series win as India downed Australia at their famed Gabba fortress. Where does it rank? What does it mean? Every emotion captured, here

On Cricbuzz Chatter, Harsha Bhogle is in awe of India's young guns, who defied all the odds to achieve & believed in their abilities to achieve the improbable

On Cricbuzz Chatter, Harsha Bhogle is super impressed with Shubman Gill's fearless knock at Gabba, which helped set up a perfect platform for India at Brisbane

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Australia-India five-Test blockbuster to start in Perth in late November

P erth Stadium has dethroned the Gabba as Australia's preferred first Test venue with the five-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy to begin in Perth on November 22 this year before the series moves to Adelaide for the day-night Test, Brisbane, Melbourne for Boxing Day and Sydney for the New Year's Test.

Cricket Australia unveiled their international schedule for next summer with the Border-Gavaskar Trophy as the summer's showpiece event. After Perth, the second Test will be a day-night pink-ball encounter played at Adelaide Oval from December 6-10. The third Test will be in Brisbane from December 14-18. The fourth Test will be at the MCG in the traditional Boxing Day slot on December 26 and the fifth Test will be at the SCG starting January 3.

Australia has an unblemished record at Perth's newest venue having won four out of four Tests there including the first one against India in December 2018 , although India went on to claim the series. Perth did not host a Test between Australia and India in the 2020-21 series, which India also won when the final Test was held in Brisbane.

Peter Roach, CA's head of scheduling, said the decision to award Perth the first Test over Brisbane was due to a range of factors with the friendly broadcast timezone for both Australian east coast audiences and India viewers being the final tipping point.

"The clear advice from our national team is that there is a preference to start series strongly at venues where they're really comfortable and Perth and Brisbane they believe are somewhat comparable in terms of the advantage they get out of that," Roach said. "They're the hardest and bounciest pitches in Australia. They also believe that playing day-night Tests in Adelaide is a significant advantage and the stats there are pretty conclusive too.

"So they will look at this schedule and some will say Gabba first would have been better than Perth. Others will say Perth then Gabba. I think that gap has really closed in recent times and the way our players think about that, and having Adelaide as the day-night Test, they'll be really buoyed about that again. So we're really comfortable that this gives us a great opportunity to compete with a really strong Indian team."

Outgoing WA Cricket CEO Christina Matthews is hopeful of a big crowd in Perth after disappointing attendances in recent years, although her preference was to host the pre-Christmas Test.

"I would be looking at crowds of 30-35,000 on day one [for India]," Matthews told ESPNcricinfo as part of an interview to be published later this week. "Getting a space in the calendar is really important. Our preference is the last Test before Christmas. But if it's the first Test, as we've had [the past two years], if we know that's when it's going to be then it makes it easier for everybody to plan. If we can know if it's the first Test of every summer or the third Test every summer, that's the important thing."

While Australia hope to maximise their advantage by starting with Perth and Adelaide, a nine-day gap has been scheduled between the first two Tests. It is understood the BCCI are keen to use that period for India's players to get some specific pink-ball practice and options are being explored as to whether some form of match practice will be scheduled. A Prime Minister's XI match in Canberra is on the cards but whether it is before or after the first Test remains to be seen.

BBL window, but availability issues to remain

The decision to start with Perth and then the day-night Test also means there is a clear window for the BBL to begin after December 10, as those matches are played at night while the Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney Tests are played during the day. CA had to halt the BBL for five days early in the season last summer while the Perth Test between Australia and Pakistan was played in late December. Then the Adelaide Test against West Indies was a day game in mid-January before the day-night Test was held in Brisbane after the BBL had been completed.

The BBL will likely start during the three-day break between the Adelaide and Brisbane Tests and will run through until Australia Day on January 26, with Australia's Test players set to be available for a few weeks after the Sydney Test is completed on January 7.

However, Australia have a two-Test tour of Sri Lanka scheduled for late January and early February which could mean some players are withdrawn from the BBL finals as there is a preference for a seven to 10-day build-up for that series to acclimatise to conditions. The dates for the Sri Lanka tour are yet to be announced. Australia's ODI players will likely head straight to the Champions Trophy after the Sri Lanka tour, with the tournament likely to start on February 19.

Pakistan return for white-ball cricket

Australia will host Pakistan in three ODIs and three T20Is in early November before the Border-Gavaskar Trophy begins. The ODIs will be part of both teams' preparation for the Champions Trophy and is likely to be Australia's last official ODI series before that tournament begins in Pakistan.

The ODI series will start at the MCG on Monday, November 4, the night before the Melbourne Cup public holiday in Victoria. The series will then move to Adelaide on November 8 and finish in Perth on November 10.

The T20I series will run close to the Test series against India and will likely mean that none of Australia's Test players will feature. There is set to be significant turnover in Australia's T20I side by the time the November series starts following the T20 World Cup in June and Australia will likely use the series to develop younger T20I specialists for future World Cups.

The final match of the series takes place in Hobart on November 18 with the first Test against India starting in Perth just four days later.

There is no men's international match in Canberra next summer although there will be a women's T20I during the multiformat Ashes in the lead-up to a historic day-night four-day Test at the MCG between Australia and England starting on January 30, which will celebrate the 90-year anniversary of women's Test cricket.

Australia Men fixtures for 2024-25 season

ODI Series vs Pakistan

4 November: MCG, Melbourne (D/N)

8 November: Adelaide Oval, Adelaide (D/N)

10 November: Perth Stadium, Perth (D/N)

T20I Series vs Pakistan

14 November: The Gabba, Brisbane (N)

16 November: SCG, Sydney (N)

18 November: Bellerive Oval, Hobart (N)

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22-26 November: Perth Stadium, Perth

6-10 December: Adelaide Oval, Adelaide (D/N)

14-18 December: The Gabba, Brisbane

26-30 December: MCG, Melbourne

3-7 January: SCG, Sydney

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India's Australia tour ends in 0-5 loss, but plenty of learnings ahead of Paris Olympics

• Anish Anand

When the Indian men's hockey team travelled to Australia in December 2022, they scored 17 goals, conceded 25 and won one game out of five.

Jump to 2024, India managed only seven goals, conceded 17 and did not win even one of the five matches.

Winning a series in Australia is a tough proposition and this tour was not all about results. This was in preparation for the Paris Olympics, where India are hoping to upgrade their Tokyo bronze medal. But the above numbers do tell a story. Craig Fulton's India played a brand of hockey where the defence did decently, but the attack was toothless throughout.

The big problem

Fulton took as many as 10 forwards to Australia, in the hope that stiff competition among the Olympic hopefuls will propel the players to give their best. Unfortunately, not one Indian forward impressed. The numbers are also damning: just one goal was scored by a recognised forward -- Gurjant Singh -- and overall India could score only two field goals with the other one coming from Boby Singh Dhami.

The lack of goals and chances created by the forwards made a big impact. Indeed, Fulton's style is not best suited for forwards who love to race ahead at every given opportunity, but even then, it's disappointing to see experienced forwards like Mandeep Singh, Abhishek and Akashdeep Singh not being consistent enough.

There were many occasions where the attackers were either too slow in counter-attack situations or ended up committing silly errors like mistraps and miscontroling simple passes. It's understandable if it's just one or two matches, but to see such issues last an entire series is far from ideal.

Another stat to judge how Indian forwards faltered was the number of penalty corners that Australia won. In five matches, Australia had 31 penalty corners compared to India's 18. It shows how Australia's attackers managed to create more set-piece chances. Dragflick extraordinaire Jeremy Hayward was the big difference in the series, scoring seven goals, and it's because India gave him plenty of opportunities to have a go at their goalkeepers.

Fulton will hope his forwards will improve in the upcoming matches, especially in the Pro League away games. Going into the Olympics with out-of-form forwards can spell doom.

What did India do right?

While it's difficult to figure out the positives from a series like this, there was improvement on the defensive side of things, especially after the first two matches. The low block did its thing in making it difficult for Australia to find goals from open play. Key defenders Amit Rohidas, Jugraj Singh and Harmanpreet didn't start well but improved on the tackles and interceptions as the series progressed.

Fulton ensures his teams have strong defensive setups so it's natural he focussed on improving the defence. The goalkeepers also did their part, with a special mention to Suraj Karkera. In a way, Suraj is a third-choice goalkeeper who doesn't get many chances to play international matches.

This time, however, Fulton took him to Australia and Suraj impressed with his shot-stopping skills. There was a period in the fourth match where he pulled off four back-to-back saves and later continued his form in the final match as well.

Standout player for India

As mentioned above, Indian goalkeepers had a decent tournament, but legendary PR Sreejesh was clearly India's best player in this tour. He was the most in-form player going to Australia, having produced an outstanding show in the Pro League home matches. He continued the same form against Australia, where he pulled off several important saves, especially in set-pieces.

Generally, Olympic squads allow just only goalkeepers in the squad. Krishan Pathak has given a tough competition to his senior partner over the last few years but currently, Sreejesh is the clear favourite to take the only spot in the Olympic squad.

How to read the 0-5 series loss?

Losing all five matches might give the impression that there are serious problems with the team in an Olympic year, but that's not accurate. No doubt India should've done better in the five matches, but we don't need to read too much into the results as long as this tour served as a learning experience.

Fulton will hope that India will be better prepared when they face Australia at the Paris Olympics as both are placed in the same group. He would also have gotten a clear picture of the squad that will go to Paris basis this tour.

More importantly, despite the defeats, India competed and showed they could frustrate their opponents by stopping them from playing their natural game. Again, this wasn't done consistently and Australia did not commit big mistakes, but it's a gameplan that can work.

It worked against Australia and European teams at the Pro League and it worked at the Asian Games where India won the gold. There is no need for drastic changes to this team and Fulton will be glad that he got to play these five tough matches because now he has the opportunity to work on concerned areas.

What's next?

India will be back home and start their camp in Bengaluru ahead of Pro League away matches. They will travel to Belgium and England in the second half of May to play the rest of the Pro League matches.

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Watch: Rishabh Pant turns babysitter again for DC, video goes viral

Rishabh pant decided to turn 'babysitter' again, but this time for his ipl side dc as they released video showing him interacting with kids. pant famously got the tag during india's tour of australia in 2018..

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• Pant has scored 210 runs in 7 matches in IPL 2024 so far
• Pant was seen interacting with kids in a viral video
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Rishabh Pant has taken up 'babysitting' duties once again, but this time for his IPL team DC. Pant was seen interacting David Warner's daughters and head coach Ricky Ponting's son in a video released by DC on April 19. The famous chant of Pant was heard in the background of the video as it went viral on social media.

We've got Pant, Rishabh Pant...💙😍 Rest continue in the comments ðŸä£ðŸ‘‡ pic.twitter.com/bnpJTPolUv — Delhi Capitals (@DelhiCapitals) April 19, 2024

How did Pant get the babysitter tag?

Pant famously got the tag of babysitter during India's tour of Australia back in 2018 from then-Aussies captain Tim Paine who was trying to troll Pant. Paine was asking Pant at the time if he wanted to babysit his kids as he wouldn't be in the ODI team as MS Dhoni had returned.

"Tell you what big MS is back in the one day squad. Should get this bloke down to Hurricanes.. They need a batter.

"Fancy that extend you Aussie holiday, beautiful town Hobart too... get him a water front apartment"

"Have him over for dinner."

"Do you babysit? I can take my wife to the movies while you watch the kids."

How well has Pant performed in IPL 2024?

In the IPL 2024 season, Pant made a remarkable comeback to competitive cricket after a 453-day hiatus due to a severe car accident. Despite the challenges of recovering from multiple injuries, including a damaged ligament in his right knee, Pant's return was eagerly anticipated.

He started the season with modest scores but quickly found his rhythm, showcasing his prowess and leadership on the field. Pant hit his stride with a vintage half-century against Chennai Super Kings, scoring 52 off 31 balls, marking his first fifty in the tournament since his return. This performance was part of a crucial victory for the Capitals, underlining Pant's importance to the team. Throughout the season, he continued to contribute significantly, amassing 210 runs in seven matches at a strike rate of 156.71, including two half-centuries.

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