AHMEDABAD: The fourth and final match of the prestigious Border Gavaskar Trophy of 2023 has come to an end on Monday afternoon. India has managed to grab onto a 2:1 victory in the series with wins in the first two matches, a loss in the third and a draw in the final test match.
Batting first the Australian cricket team had scored 480 runs in the first innings. Chasing it down, India reached 571 runs at the loss of all its wickets. Bating in the second innings, Australia managed to score another 175 runs at the loss of 2 wickets at the end of the stipulated 5 days of play with no chance for India to bat for the second time, drawing the match.
Usman Khawaja scored a massive 180 in the first innings for Australia and Cameron Green scored 114 runs. Chasing down that score, Virat Kohli scored 186 runs while opener Shubman Gill scores 128 runs in India’s first innings. In the second innings, Travis Head scored 90 runs and Marnus remained unbeaten at 63 runs. Ravichandran Aswin took 6 Australian wickets in the first innings and one more in the second. Nathan Lyon and Todd Murphy bagged three wickets each in the first innings of India.
But despite this result, the Indian Cricket team has qualified for the World Test Championship finals. They will face Australia in the final match that is scheduled to take place in the Oval. New Zealand managed to defeat Sri Lanka in one of the most dramatic matches in the game. The game went down to the very last ball in the first test played on the Christchurch ground. Now India will meet the Australians again in the final match of the World Test Championship which is scheduled to take place in the legendary Oval ground on June 7. Australia had qualified as the first team to the finals when they defeated India in the third match of the Border Gavaskar Trophy.
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