Border Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25: Team India's pace bowling attack for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy looks much weaker than Australia.

Source: PTI

Border Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 Pace Bowling Attack: The Border-Gavaskar Trophy to be played between India and Australia will start from November 22. In this series, Team India will be seen on the field with some young bowlers. While selecting the team for the series, fast bowler Mohammed Shami was not made a part of India because he was not fully fit at that time. However, now Shami is fit. Meanwhile, we will tell you how Australia's bowling attack is far ahead of India. 

Team India's entire squad for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy includes Jaspreet Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Harshit Rana and Nitish Kumar Reddy. Among these fast bowlers in India's squad, Harshit Rana and Nitish Kumar have not yet made their Test debut. All these bowlers of India have taken a total of 265 Test wickets together. On the other hand, Australia has such fast bowlers, out of which only one has taken 358 Test wickets. 

Among the Indian fast bowlers present in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy squad, Jasprit Bumrah has taken the most 173 wickets, Mohammed Siraj has taken 80 wickets, Akash Deep has taken 10 wickets and Prasidh Krishna has taken 2 wickets. 

On the other hand, Mitchell Starc alone has taken 358 Test wickets for Australia so far. Apart from this, Josh Hazlewood has taken 273 wickets and captain Pat Cummins has taken 269 Test wickets. In this respect, India has a very weak bowling attack. 

Indian Squad for Border-Gavaskar Trophy

Rohit Sharma (captain), Jasprit Bumrah (vice-captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Sarfaraz Khan, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Mohammad Siraj, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna and Harshit Rana.

Reserves- Khalil Ahmed, Mukesh Kumar and Navdeep Saini.