Six Indian legends who finished their Test careers in Border Gavaskar Trophy

The Border Gavaskar Trophy’s upcoming edition will begin on 22th November 2024 with a five-Test series in Perth. Main aim of Australia to reclaim the trophy from India, who face a dare after a recent 0-3 series loss to New Zealand.

The Border Gavaskar Trophy (BGT), which is considered one of the competition in Test cricket, will see another edition unfolding on 22th November 2024 in Perth, when Australia will try to finish India’s decade-long hold on the silverware in a five-Test series.

Over Series of five matches, with a place in the World Test Championship (WTC) at stake it will be the first time in cricket that the Border Gavaskar Trophy will be completed.

India, who have lost their top stop in the WTC table to Australia, secure on their last two Test tours of Australia; but the team which is under the guidance of coach Gautam Gambhir hasn’t had the perfect composition this time with repeated batting failures at home.

The Indian batting line-up including a string of low scores by skipper Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli failed to produce the runs.Virat Kohli scored just 93 while Rohit scored 91 runs in six innings against the kiwis.

The failure of the duo has led to a discussion whether it’s time for the two to call time on their Test careers, especially if India fail to qualify for the WTC final. In June of this year duo retired from the T20Is after India won the T20 World cup.

Six Indian legends played the last Test of their respective careers in the prestigious series as we are looking back at the history of BGT.

Here is the list:

1. Anil Kumble – vs Australia at Delhi, 29th October – 2nd November, 2008
2. Sourav Ganguly – vs Australia at Nagpur, Nov 6-10, 2008
3. Rahul Dravid – vs Australia at Adelaide, Jan 24-28, 2012
4. VVS Laxman – vs Australia at Adelaide, Jan 24-28, 2012
5. Virender Sehwag – vs Australia at Hyderabad, March 2-5, 2013
6. MS Dhoni – vs Australia at Melbourne, Dec 26-30, 2014

For the coming tour of Australia, off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin is the eldest of 38 years old, followed by Rohit Sharma who is 37, while both Jadeja and Virat Kohli are 35.

After upcoming BGT, Will any of them join the above-mentioned list of six players?