India and Australia will lock horns in the upcoming four-match Test series starting with the first Test at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur on Thursday, the 9th of February. The players of both teams are gearing up very hard for this crucial and much-anticipated Test series of the calendar year of 2023.
Meanwhile, the round of speculations and predictions is already going on as former cricketers are predicting the winner between India and Australia. In the same line of events, former legendary Australian skipper Allan Border and former wicketkeeper-batter Adam Gilchrist are on the receiving end of brutal trolling from a section of the Indian cricket fans for their prediction ahead of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Recently, Allan Border and Adam Gilchrist have backed the Cummins-led Australian side to win the four-match Test series against India by a margin of 2-1.
Subsequently, the Indian cricket fans went on to come up with some harsh trolls and dig at the duo on the micro-blogging site Twitter.
Here’s how fans trolled Adam Gilchrist and Allan Border:
Agle Janam me
— Aditya Pratap Singh (@AdityaP54930774) February 7, 2023
Mungerilal ke hasin sapne
— Shital Shelke (@PurwiShelke) February 7, 2023
hAa ..Kuch log aus ko support krne wale bhi hone chahiye ... Vrna Haar ke baad unhe sambhalega kon .. #IndianCricketTeam #BGT2023
— '' RC '' 🥶 Mahirat 🥵 (@mahi07_rat18) February 7, 2023
— Nationalist Thamizhan (@bostoniancskfan) February 7, 2023
Last time they said 4-0 😂😂😂😂
— Abhijeet Bulbule (@BulbuleAbhijeet) February 7, 2023
They thought it's Border Gilchrist Trophy
— Hariharan PK (@hariharan_p_k) February 7, 2023
Waiting for them to cry about pitches from day 1😂
— 🔰Aashish Shukla🔰 (@Aashish_Shukla7) February 7, 2023
BGT is played against India in India...Do they think they are playing against Zimbabwe
— Suresh (@sureshfair) February 7, 2023
— Prasun Jha (@jprasun21) February 7, 2023
Bat pr ball nhi lagegi
— Mayannk V Aanand (@MayannkV) February 7, 2023
Bhai @gilly381 4-0 ki karo taiyaari aa rahein hai bhagvadhari. 😁😁
— jeet oza (@jeetoza1) February 7, 2023
Simple ha har koi apni team ko hi predict krega
— Muhammad Hamaad🇵🇰 (@SherlockKherloc) February 7, 2023
India squad for the first two Tests of Border-Gavaskar Trophy:
Rohit Sharma (Captain), KL Rahul (vice-captain), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KS Bharat (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), R. Ashwin, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammad Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Jaydev Unadkat, Suryakumar Yadav.
Australia squad for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023:
Pat Cummins (Captain), Ashton Agar, Scott Boland, Alex Carey (wk), Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Peter Handscomb, Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Lance Morris, Todd Murphy, Matthew Renshaw, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Swepson, David Warner.
Schedule of Border-Gavaskar Trophy:
First Test – 9th – 13th of February, Thursday, Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur
Second Test – 17th – 21st of February, Friday, Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi
Third Test – 1st – 5th of March, HPCA Stadium, Dharmshala
Fourth Test – 9th – 13th of March, Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad