NEW DELHI: The enduring Sydney Cricket Floor (SCG) paid a heartfelt tribute to legendary Indian spinner Bishan Singh Bedi forward of the fifth and closing Check of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, set to start on Friday (January 3).
“As is a practice on the SCG, the away changeroom options the unique calico rolls from the SCG scoreboard that stood in the back of the hill from 1924 to 1984. Bedi and Yadav are the 2 names on show within the Indian dressing room for the New Yr’s Check,” learn a put up from SCG on their social media.
Nonetheless, there was ambiguity concerning which “Yadav” the SCG put up referred to—Shivlal Yadav or Kuldeep Yadav—since each Indian spinners have claimed five-wicket hauls on the iconic venue.
Shivlal, who represented India in 35 Exams and seven ODIs between 1979 and 1987, achieved his five-wicket haul throughout the drawn Check in 1986.
Kuldeep, then again, registered his five-for throughout the 2019 Check, which additionally led to a draw.
India, at the moment trailing the five-match sequence 1-2, will want a victory on the SCG to retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Rohit Sharma’s group is aiming to proceed India’s latest dominance within the sequence, having received consecutive Border-Gavaskar Trophy titles in Australia—first below Virat Kohli’s management in 2018-19 after which below Ajinkya Rahane’s captaincy in 2020-21.
