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Head coach Gautam Gambhir along with some senior players have told their younger counterparts in the squd that a Test series in Australia is a transformative experience that makes a player a better cricketer ahead of India's five-game series Down Under.
The likes of Yashaswi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Sarfaraz Khan, Nitish Reddy, Harshit Rana, Akash Deep and Prasidh Krishna are on their maiden tours to Australia.
Hence, the trio of Virat Kohli, Ravichandran Ashwin, and Jasprit Bumrah are sharing their learnings from their previous visits to the country.
"Gauti bhai (Gambhir) had a chat with the boys just before we started, we had some of the senior boys as well," India batting coach Abhishek Nayar said in video posted by bcci.tv. on Thursday.
"Booms (Bumrah), Virat , Ash (Ashwin) having a chat with the guys how first they came here as youngsters with a lot of seniors around and how they sort of felt that once you finish an Australia series you go back a better cricketer." "I think the young boys are very keen, raring to go and hopefully make a name for themselves by the end of this tour.
"It's one of the toughest challenges for an Indian cricketer coming here and overcoming it," Nayar added.
Showpiece event
Bowling coach Morne Morkel has hyped up the series as a showpiece on the international calendar and predicted that both teams will be coming out hard against each other in every essay of the play.
"I think it's a showpiece on the international calendar since it's going to be teams that not going to give anybody an inch or a sniff and it is going to be hard-fought sessions," Morkel said.
"I'm hopeful for the five Test matches is hard. Five days of cricket when you sit after the day's play and you take your shoes off and say 'Listen, I have given it all'," he added.
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Australia have not won the Border-Gavaskar Trophy since 2014-15, with India winning four consecutive series' - twice both and away. India is the only Asian country to defeat Australia in a Test series in their backyard, and they have done it twice.
"It's become a big part of Indian cricket to come here and do well. It's obviously a very proud moment that India won here twice in the last two times as well as winning it in India," assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate said.
The likes of Yashaswi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Sarfaraz Khan, Nitish Reddy, Harshit Rana, Akash Deep and Prasidh Krishna are on their maiden tours to Australia.
Hence, the trio of Virat Kohli, Ravichandran Ashwin, and Jasprit Bumrah are sharing their learnings from their previous visits to the country.
"Gauti bhai (Gambhir) had a chat with the boys just before we started, we had some of the senior boys as well," India batting coach Abhishek Nayar said in video posted by bcci.tv. on Thursday.
"Booms (Bumrah), Virat , Ash (Ashwin) having a chat with the guys how first they came here as youngsters with a lot of seniors around and how they sort of felt that once you finish an Australia series you go back a better cricketer." "I think the young boys are very keen, raring to go and hopefully make a name for themselves by the end of this tour.
"It's one of the toughest challenges for an Indian cricketer coming here and overcoming it," Nayar added.
Showpiece event
Bowling coach Morne Morkel has hyped up the series as a showpiece on the international calendar and predicted that both teams will be coming out hard against each other in every essay of the play.
"I think it's a showpiece on the international calendar since it's going to be teams that not going to give anybody an inch or a sniff and it is going to be hard-fought sessions," Morkel said.
"I'm hopeful for the five Test matches is hard. Five days of cricket when you sit after the day's play and you take your shoes off and say 'Listen, I have given it all'," he added.
Also Read: Lungi Ngidi, Temba Bavuma likely to miss South African Test summer; here's why
Australia have not won the Border-Gavaskar Trophy since 2014-15, with India winning four consecutive series' - twice both and away. India is the only Asian country to defeat Australia in a Test series in their backyard, and they have done it twice.
"It's become a big part of Indian cricket to come here and do well. It's obviously a very proud moment that India won here twice in the last two times as well as winning it in India," assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate said.
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