Border Gavaskar Trophy: At present, India is playing a three-match Test series with New Zealand, in which New Zealand has defeated India in the first match of the series. New Zealand has defeated India on its own soil since 1988. If India wants to win this series from here, then it will have to win the next two matches.

Let us tell you that after this series, India has to play Border Gavaskar Trophy series with Australia in November, for which the team will have to start preparations from now.

Team India has to face Australia in Australia after this series. This series will be played from 22 November to 7 January.

Pujara's rule in Border Gavaskar Trophy

India's Test star batsman Cheteshwar Pujara's bat rules the Border Gavaskar Trophy. He has many times shown stormy batting for India and helped the team in winning the series. Talking about the Border Gavaskar Series held in 2018-19, in that series Pujara played a brilliant innings of 521 runs at an average of 74.42.

India had won that series by 2-1. Along with Pujara, Rishabh Pant had contributed a lot in this series. He also scored 350 runs at an average of 58.33.

India got second Cheteshwar Pujara

India will have to go with the best batting option in the upcoming series with Australia. For this series, the team has found a player like Pujara who will be able to show the power of his bat. Test batsman Sarfaraz Khan, who made his debut for Team India in the England Test, is being seen as the best replacement for Pujara. He has played only two Test series so far and his performance in both the series has been excellent.

Sarfaraz's figures

Sarfaraz has also played a century in the ongoing Test series against New Zealand. He has played only 4 test matches in which he has an average of 58.33. Sarfaraz has scored 350 runs in 4 matches.

Whenever he has got a chance to prove himself, he has proved himself. Sarfaraz has scored 4572 runs in first class cricket at an average of 69.27.