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Cricket Australia broke its silence on legendary India batter Sunil Gavaskar’s displeasure at not being invited to current the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Gavaskar was not proud of the choice to not name him on the presentation ceremony following the fifth Test match between India and Australia. However, Cricket Australia stated that Gavaskar was knowledgeable that he would have offered the award to Indian captain Jasprit Bumrah if the guests retained the trophy. Australia clinched the trophy after 10 years and consequently, Allan Border was invited to current the trophy to the Australia captain Pat Cummins.
“We acknowledge it will have been preferable if each Allan Border and Sunil Gavaskar had been requested to go on stage,” a CA spokesperson stated in a press release.
Border offered the trophy to the house group however Gavaskar, regardless of being on the venue on the identical time, was inexplicably ignored.
“I definitely would have liked to have been there for the presentation. After all it’s the Border-Gavaskar Trophy and it’s about Australia and India,” Gavaskar was quoted as saying by Code Sports.
“I imply, I’m right here on the bottom. To me it mustn’t matter that Australia gained in the case of the presentation. They performed higher cricket in order that they gained. That’s advantageous.
“Just as a result of I’m an Indian. I’d have been completely satisfied to current the trophy with my good buddy Allan Border,” he added.
Both India and Australia have been competing for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy since 1996-1997 and the rivalry has grown to turn out to be one of many greatest in Test cricket.
The five-match sequence that Australia gained drew file crowds at a number of venues and broke an 87-year-old attendance file on the Melbourne Cricket Ground final week.
(With PTI inputs)
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