Records Make Australia Favourites, Can India Stop the Gabba Juggernaut?

Australia at The Gabba

Australia have played a total of 62 Tests and won 40 of them, losing only 8. There have been 13 draws and 1 tie too. Since 1990, they’ve played 30 times at the Gabba and won 24 Tests, drawing 6. Only, England (4), New Zealand (3) and West Indies (1) have won at the Gabba since the first Test was played in 1931.

Since 2000, the hosts have played at the Gabba 20 times and won 6 of those Tests by an innings and more, 3 with a margin of win above 300 runs, 2 with a margin between 200 and 300 and 2 with a margin between 30 and 200.

They have also won a game by 10 wickets and another by 9 wickets, while their smallest win margin is in 2014 against India (by 4 wickets). There have been only 4 draws in this period.

With Ravi Shastri and Rahane at the helm since the Adelaide debacle in the absence of Virat Kohli, India was commanding in Melbourne and showed great courage and fight in Sydney.

Australia have been dominant for decades at the Gabba, even before 1988, when an…

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