IND and OFF: The Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 Test Match has so far featured 3 Tests between India and Australia. The fourth Test match will begin on December 26. The match will be a Boxing Day Test match and will be played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), Melbourne’s historic cricket ground. There are currently 5 games played in this test match, with the two sides drawing 1-1. In this case, both teams have their sights set on Melbourne’s lead. After the Melbourne Test, the fifth and final Test of the series will be played in Sydney. Hosts Australia have announced their line-up for the two Test matches.
Australia have shown their way through opener Nathan McSweeney, who has started the first three Test matches. In the first 3 Tests, Nathan McSweeney performed so poorly with the bat that he had to be dropped from the team. The 25-year-old McSweeney, who made his debut in the first Test match in Perth, failed to score a half-century and scored 10, 0, 39, 10 not out, 9 and 4 in 6 innings.
Will Constas make history?
Now youngster Sam Constas has been named in the Australia squad for the first time, replacing McSweeney, for the final two Test matches against India in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Constas, 19, will become the youngest Test batsman to make his debut for Australia in the past 70 years. Constas was given a place in the squad following McSweeney’s poor performances in the first three Tests. Constas, who celebrates his 19th birthday on October 2, will become the youngest player to make his debut after Australia Test captain Pat Cummins if he is selected for the Boxing Day Test.
Cummins made his debut against South Africa in Johannesburg in 2011, when he was 18 years and 193 days old. With this, Constas will become the youngest Australian Test batsman since Ian Craig. In 1953, Craig was 17 years and 239 days old when he played against South Africa at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Constas scored hundreds in two Sheffield Shield matches for New South Wales. He scored an unbeaten innings of 73 against India A at the MCG and an unbeaten 107 in the Premier XI’s pink-ball match against India in Canberra.
Australian team for fourth and fifth Tests: Pat Cummins (captain), Sean Abbott, Scott Bolan, Alex Carey, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Usman Ha Waja, Sam Constas, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Marsh, Jay Richardson, Steve Smith, Mitchell S Tucker, Beau Webster.
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