All to know about the Border-Gavaskar Trophy

Cricket powerhouses India and Australia are set to renew their fierce rivalry in a five-match Test series in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, which gets under way in Perth on Friday.
Millions of fans around the world are expected to follow the series as some of the sport’s biggest stars, including Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Mitchell Starc, Jasprit Bumrah, Pat Cummins and Steve Smith, take to the field for seven and a half weeks of Test cricket action in the Australian summer.
Here’s everything you need to know about the series:
Apart from the tangible – a shiny golden trophy – both teams will be fighting for a place in the World Test Championship (WTC) final 2025.
A series win for India could consolidate their Test dominance over their rivals, while an Australian win could mark a shift in power to the Southern Hemisphere.
The WTC leaderboard is determined by percentage points and, before the opening match, Australia pip India by 4.2 percentage points. The current champions are on 62.50 points, with India on 58.33 points.
Sri Lanka (55.56), New Zealand (54.55) and South Africa (54.17) are separated by 1.39 points with all top five set to play at least one Test series each until the WTC final in June.
For India to qualify without depending on the results of other series, they must beat Australia with a minimum of a 4-0 scoreline.
The hosts, meanwhile, must win five of their seven remaining Tests to seal their place in a second consecutive WTC final. Should Australia beat India 4-0, they would need to beat Sri Lanka (away) 1-0.

The bilateral Test series between India and Australia have been contested under this title since 1996-97, when India won the lone Test at home to bag the trophy.
In total, the series has been played 16 times and India have emerged victorious on 10 occasions, with five series wins going Australia’s way and one drawn series in 2003-04.
Here’s how the last five series went:
For first Test: Pat Cummins (captain), Usman Khawaja, Nathan McSweeney, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Alex Carey (wicketkeeper), Mitchell Marsh, Josh Inglis (wicketkeeper), Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Scott Boland
For the series: Rohit Sharma (captain), Jasprit Bumrah (vice-captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammad Siraj, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar