India vs Australia: Hosts look to extend home dominance as Aussies eye Border-Gavaskar Trophy again

Team India will hope to continue their dominance on home soil while Australia seek to end a long wait when the two sides lock horns in the first of four Tests in Nagpur starting Thursday.

The Indians have had a near-perfect home run recently: beat both Australia and South Africa in limited-overs fixtures ahead of the T20 World Cup, and pulled off similar results against Sri Lanka and New Zealand last month, including winning six one-dayers in a row.

With the white-ball games done and dusted for now, it’s time for the Indian team to shift its attention to their only home red-ball assignment of the season, with the 16th edition of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy set to get underway in less than 24 hours.

Australia are coming off a dominant home season having knocked over both West Indies and South Africa with relative ease in Tests. Though facing India, in India, is a different proposition entirely.

India, after all, are considered one of the toughest places in the world to tour. The last time they lost a series at home in any format came in the form of a stunning 3-2 ODI reversal against the Aussies in 2019. The record is even more clinical when it comes to the Test format, with the Indians having lost just three Test assignments on home soil since the start of the millennium, the last of which was against England in 2012-13.

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