India beat Australia 2-1 in the four-Test series and retained the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
The Indian team fought injuries and getting bowled out for 36 in an innings in Adelaide, to register a 2-1 series win over Australia in Tests and retained the Border-Gavaskar Trophy as well. This included an amazing Test win in Gabba, Brisbane, where Australia had not lost a Test since 1988 and India created a record by chasing down 328 runs for the win.
This came after Indian captain Virat Kohli returned home after the Adelaide Test loss and Ajinkya Rahane took over. India also lost Mohammad Shami, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Hanuma Vihari, and a couple of more players to injuries during the course of the series.
PM Narendra Modi lauds Team India for Test series win over Australia in his ‘Mann ki Baat’
India also handed debuts to Shubman Gill, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Washington Sundar, and T Natarajan to make up for the loss of players and still managed to give a full-strength Australian team a grand fight and beat them in style.
PM Modi mentioned the importance of Team India’s Test series win in Australia and the Indian cricketers including Virat Kohli, coach Ravi Shastri thanked the Prime Minister for his appreciation on Twitter.
Here are the tweets from Team India members thanking PM Modi: