Let us tell you that Cricket Australia got this deal for the Test series at a time when there was a competition for media broadcast for the Indian Premier League and the rest of the franchise leagues of the world. Earlier, Channel Nine had a contract with Cricket Australia, but after the Indian tour in 2021, Cricket Australia signed a deal with Disney Hotstar and with a record bid, the board sold its media rights.
Rishabh Pant, the wicket-keeper batsman of the Indian team on the tour of Australia, scored a historic century, due to which Team India defeated Australia for the second time in a row in the Test series at home. Although the Australian team had suffered a big defeat in the Test series due to Rishabh Pant, but due to media rights, it had benefited so much that it would not have regretted the loss.
Australia was defeated in the Gabba after three decades
The special thing on this tour of the Indian team was that it defeated the Australian team at the Gabba ground. No team was able to beat the Kangaroo team in the Gabba for many years. When India made a comeback after losing badly in the first match of the series, no one expected that it would be able to compete with Australia, but India created history by defeating the hosts at the Gabba ground. Australia had to face the first defeat after 31 years at this ground.
Cricket Australia won the toss and decided to bat first at this Gabba ground. Batting first, the hosts scored 369 runs. Washington Sundar, T Natarajan and Shardul Thakur took 3 wickets each in the first innings for India while Mohammad Siraj also got a wicket.
In reply to the first innings of the Australian team, India could hardly score 336 runs. In the second innings, Australia was all out for 294 runs, thus Team India got the target of 328 runs to win the match. Batting in the second innings, Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara and match finisher Rishabh Pant played a very important innings for Team India.
Opener batsman Shubman took over the innings for the team, while Pujara batted in the middle order to provide stability to the innings while match-winner Rishabh eventually led India to a historic Test match win at the Gabba with his attacking batting. Rishabh had crossed the threshold by hitting the team for a four. Pant became the hero of the Indian team’s victory in the Gabba Test match by playing an unbeaten 89 in this match.