'Can't Really Hide': Steve Smith Makes Bold Prediction For India Ahead Of The Border-Gavaskar Trophy

Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024: India will travel to Australia later this year to play a series of five Test matches. India are the defending champions of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy and they will look to defeat Australia in consecutive fifth Test series. Moving away from the traditional four match series, the Border-Gavaskar Trophy this time around will be contested across five Test matches. Australia have never won the BGT after 2014 and they will be hungry to turn things around this time.

Steve Smith's Take On Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024

Former Australia skipper Steve Smith is one of the stalwarts of Test cricket. One of the celebrated members of the 'Fab Four' which comprises the likes of Virat Kohli, Kane Williamson and Joe Root, Smith is one of the greatest batsman to play the red ball format. Smith has this knack of conquering every bowling attack across different conditions.

While speaking on the ICC Review, Smith opened up on the importance of the five-match Test series. The Aussie great has been a part of many Ashes series which is traditionally a five-match Test series and shed some insights into what the upcoming edition of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy might look like. Smith also recalled Australia beating India in the World Test Championship (WTC) final.

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'You can't really hide in a five-Test series like you probably can in a two-match series for instance, If someone gets the wood on you, it can be hard coming back from that. It's going to be a wonderful series. We are probably the two best teams at the moment in Test cricket. We played the World Test Championship final last year and beat them there. They've been great out here the last couple of times, they've played really good cricket, hopefully we can turn the tables. It's been 10 years', said Smith.

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Ricky Ponting Believes Australia Can Beat India

While Speaking on the ICC Review itself, former Aussie skipper Ricky Ponting said that it was very much possible that Australia beat India 3-1 in the upcoming Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Ponting feels that the additional Test match that is to be played this time around will shift the momentum in Australia's favour.