India and Australia are still alive in the race to qualify for the WTC 2025 final, which is scheduled to take place at Lord’s in June next year.
Australia beat India by 184 runs on Monday (December 30) to win the Boxing Day Test played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and take a 2-1 lead in the 2024-25 edition of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. The win in front of more than 70,000 fans on Monday has not only ignited Australia’s hopes of winning the first Border-Gavaskar Trophy since the 2014-15 edition but also boosted their chances of qualifying for the World Test Championship (WTC) final for the second season in a row. Australia played the WTC final in 2023 and managed to get the better of India by 209 runs at The Oval to win the title.
After losing the Boxing Day Test for the first time in 13 years against Australia at MCG, India can’t win the Border-Gavaskar Trophy now, but a win in the fifth and final Test, which is scheduled to take place at Sydney Cricket Ground from January 3-7, 2025, will help Rohit Sharma’s men retain the BGT. In addition to that, the first Test win at SCG since January 1978 will also help India keep alive its hopes of qualifying for the WTC 2025 final, which is scheduled to take place at Lord’s from June 11 to 15 next year.
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