[WATCH]- Pat Cummins And Jasprit Bumrah Pose With The Trophy Before The 1st Test Of The BGT 2024/25

Australia’s captain, Pat Cummins, and stand-in India skipper, Jasprit Bumrah, posed with the Border-Gavaskar Trophy at Optus Stadium in Perth ahead of the first Test. The highly anticipated series opener will begin on Friday, November 22.

Bumrah will captain India in Perth as Rohit Sharma is on paternity leave and unavailable for the match. This marks Bumrah’s second time leading India in Tests, having previously done so against England in Birmingham in 2022.

ANI shared a video showing the two captains with the trophy. You can watch the video here:

#WATCH | Indian Skipper Jasprit Bumrah and Australian Skipper Pat Cummins pose with the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, for a photograph in Perth, Australia. India's Test Vice-Captain Jasprit Bumrah is stepping in for Rohit Sharma in his absence.

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— ANI (@ANI) November 21, 2024

The two captains also posed with the Kookaburra ball. This is one of the rare instances where two fast bowlers are leading the teams. Bumrah expressed his belief that such occasions should occur more frequently in the future, as he mentioned in the press conference, according to ICC:

“I have always advocated for pacers being captains. They are tactically better. Pat (Cummins) has done a phenomenal job. There are a lot of models in the past as well. Kapil Dev and lot of other captains in the past. Hopefully a start of a new tradition.”

In addition to Rohit, India is also likely to be without Shubman Gill in Perth.

“It’s one of the final things to check off for many of us”- Pat Cummins on winning Border-Gavaskar Trophy

Cummins believes Australia has successfully met every challenge in recent times, but feels winning the Border-Gavaskar Trophy is essential to establishing themselves as a world-class team. The 31-year-old said, as reported by Perth Now:

“For about half the changeroom, we haven’t won the Border-Gavaskar, so it is kind of one of the last things to tick off for a lot of us. Almost every challenge we have had thrown at us over the past few years we have stepped up and done well.”

”To do that for another year, another home summer, would cement us as, rather than just being a two or three season thing, it’s into a half-generation thing.”

Australia has notably lost their last four Test series to India.

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