Former Australian captain Allan Border expresses his desire to see Australia win the Border-Gavaskar Trophy at the SCG, marking a 10-year drought. He also jokingly mentions his desire to get one over his old rival, Sunil Gavaskar.
When Allan Border gets to the SCG on the morning of January 7, he dearly hopes it will be to hand the trophy that bears his name to Australia ’s captain Pat Cummins after a 10-year drought. Not just because of what it would mean for the national team, but for the chance it will give Border to get one back on his old Indian friend Sunil Gavaskar following years of banter the other way. 'I didn’t realise it had been 10 years,' Border tells this masthead ahead of the SCG Test.
'That would be the ideal scenario to give a bit of cheek to Mr Gavaskar, because he’s been giving it to me for a while. It’d be good to get one back. 'We’ve been the better team to date. You wouldn’t say that after the first game, but we went in a bit rusty, hadn’t played Test cricket for eight months. It just took that game to get rid of the rust, and from there we’ve dominated really. So it’d be good to give Pat the trophy on January 7.' While it has been more than 40 years since he moved north to Maroons territory, Border and his wife Jane still think of Sydney as home. As a teenager he would catch the ferry from Mosman to Circular Quay, then the bus to the SCG, where he’d sit on the hill watching heroes like Doug Walters and the Chappell brothers. Before long, of course, Border joined them in the Australian side when it was reunified after the World Series Cricket split. He made plenty of scores in Sydney, led Australia to numerous memorable wins, and once spun out the mighty West Indies with 11 wickets of his left-arm spin in January 1989. One of Border’s standout memories of the SCG, though, is of the birth of his daughter, Nicole, while he was batting in a Test match against India in 1986. Nicole had arrived a day ahead of schedule, and Australia struggled to escape with a draw in the game, leading to at least one headline saying: ‘Border left holding the baby
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