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As we build towards the upcoming five-Test series, ESPNcricinfo, Star Sports and Disney+ Hotstar invite you to help us identify India’s best individual Border-Gavaskar Trophy performances in Australia in the 21st century. We shortlisted 16 performances and compared them against each other. All you have to do now is vote to send one of the following to the quarter-finals.
Update: Voting is closed. The winning performance will be announced once the votes from the polls conducted on the various platforms for this match are collected.
Virat Kohli – 115 and 141 in Adelaide, 2014
India lost by 48 runs
In a career full of milestones, Virat Kohli has a very special place in his heart these two hundred. He has made that clear on every subsequent trip to Adelaide. The runs he made, the way he made them, getting hit on the head early by a Mitchell Johnson bouncer and scaring away the Australians who came up to him to ask him if he was okay so he didn’t have to run out breaking that bubble he has to be in to score those big runs, and the path he set his team on by saying they wouldn’t go for the draw – all this played a huge role in deciding what kind of cricketer and captain he would become. wanted to be. His 114 in the first innings on his captaincy debut kept India in the match after conceding 517, and his 141 in the second gave India hope that as long as Kohli was batting, there was a chance of an outrageous chase of 364. That feat made Kohli the first visiting batsman since 1961 score two centuries in a Test in Australiaand no one has done it since.
Watch highlights of these performances on the Star Sports network at 10am, 1pm, 4pm and 7pm IST, starting October 25.
Sourav Ganguly – 144 in Brisbane, 2003
Match drawn, series level 0-0
Before the 2003-04 tour of Australia, the words ‘chin music’ had become so deeply associated with Indian captain Sourav Ganguly that he left India early to train with Greg Chappell for six days to cope with bowling at short pitch.
His preparations were immediately put to the test at the Gabba, where India fell from 61 for 0 to 62 for 3 in response to Australia’s 323. In conditions that offered the pace and bounce typical of Australian venues, Ganguly showed remarkable judgment in his handling of the short delivery, and scored his maiden Test hundred in Australia.
The innings was a statement from a leader that his team should be taken into account on this trip down under. Ganguly gave India a first-innings lead that helped India leave Brisbane – an Australian fortress – with the series level, a performance that went a long way in securing India’s first draw in Australia since 1981.
Voting closes on October 28 at 11pm IST. The winner of this match-up will be determined based on the total votes cast in polls conducted on ESPNcricinfo, Star Sports and Disney+ Hotstar platforms.