Indian cricket would like to forget the failures of last year and start the year 2025 in a new way. Team India will start the new year with the last and 5th Test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 against Australia. The last match of the series will be played in Sydney which will be very important for both Australia and India. If India wants to retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, then it will have to win the Sydney Test at any cost. At the same time, Australia will try to capture the Border-Gavaskar Trophy after a long time.

The Sydney Test is also very important for Team India in terms of the final of the World Test Championship. If India loses this Test match, then its hopes of reaching the WTC final will end. In such a situation, the visiting team will want to put in all its strength in this last match. Learning from the previous defeat, Team India's batsmen will have to take responsibility for scoring runs in this match and avoid giving away their wickets as gifts. Especially Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant, who got out playing careless shots in the last match.

New beginning in new year

Virat Kohli is getting out in the slips while trying to play the balls outside off in this series. On the other hand, Rishabh Pant got out after playing a bad shot in the first innings of the fourth Test against Australia in Melbourne. During this, Sunil Gavaskar, who was doing commentary, criticized Pant for his 'stupid' shot. Now these two batsmen will have the responsibility of making a new beginning with the new year in Sydney.

If we look at the record of Pant and Virat in Sydney, the performance of both the batsmen has been amazing. Virat Kohli has scored 248 runs in 5 innings of 3 matches here at an average of around 50, while Pant has scored 292 runs in 3 innings of 2 Test matches at an impressive average of 146. Virat has scored a Test century in Sydney, while Pant has done the great feat of scoring a half-century in addition to a century. Now there will be a competition between the two batsmen to overtake each other as well as to leave behind Rahul Dravid and Cheteshwar Pujara. 

Indian batsman who scored most runs in Sydney Test

• Sachin Tendulkar - 785
• VVS Laxman – 549
• Cheteshwar Pujara – 320
• Rahul Dravid – 306
• Rishabh Pant – 292
• Virat Kohli – 248