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Indian players Bumrah and Jadeja will head into the game standing at the precipice of milestones as they go chasing the 200 and 600-wicket marks respectively.
Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja.
Team India take on Australia in the fourth Test of the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 slated to begin on Boxing Day at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, with the series poised evenly at 1-1.
The fourth game at the famous MCG could tilt the balance in favour of one side as both teams go in search of a win in the penultimate game of the series.
Indian players Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja will head into the game standing at the precipice of milestones as they go chasing the 200 and 600-wicket marks respectively.
Team India’s star pacer, who has amassed 194 Test wickets, including 12 five-wicket hauls, is just six tickets away from the 200-wicket milestone and would become only the 12th Indian bowler to scale the feat.
Bumrah leads the wicket-takers charts at the BGT 2024-25 with 21 scalps to his name in the three concluded games at a bowling average of 10.90. The star Indian seamer has a total of 54 wickets against the Aussies in Tests and will look to add to his tally at the MCG.
Jadeja, on the other hand, is in tow to breach the 600-wicket mark as the southpaw is just seven wickets away from the milestone number. The left-arm spinner stands in queue to become just the fifth Indian to breach the mark.
Test India opened the series with a stunning victory at Perth as the visitors clinched a 295-run triumph to take a 1-0 lead early in the series. The Aussies, however, pulled back on level terms with a victory at the Adelaide in the second game of the series to make it 1-1.
The third game of the tour ended in a draw as India and Australia stand inseparable at 1-1 heading into the fourth game of the five-match series.
