Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024–25: Australia Win 3–1 — Jasprit Bumrah 32 Wickets Player of Series, Jaiswal 161 and Kohli 100* Perth India Win 1st Test 295 Runs, Travis Head 140 Adelaide, Nitish Reddy 105* MCG, Scott Boland 10 Wickets Sydney, Australia Regain BGT After 10 Years

Australia won the 5-Test Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024–25 3–1 against India — their first BGT series victory since 2014–15, ending a decade of Indian dominance of the trophy (India had won four consecutive BGT series: 2017, 2018–19, 2020–21, and 2022–23). The series was one of the most widely watched bilateral Test series in history and produced remarkable individual performances on both sides across Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney. 1st Test Perth (November 22–25, 2024): India won by 295 runs — India's first-ever Test win at the new Perth Stadium (Optus Stadium). India were bowled out for 150 in the 1st innings but Jasprit Bumrah took 5/30 to bowl Australia out for 104, giving India a lead of 46. India's 2nd innings of 487/6 declared was built around Yashasvi Jaiswal's 161 and Virat Kohli's 100 not out — the pair sharing a substantial partnership. Australia needed 534 to win and were bowled out for 238; India won by 295 runs with Bumrah leading both the bowling (5/30 in the 1st innings) and India's confidence heading into the series. Bumrah captained India in the Perth Test (Rohit Sharma was rested after the birth of his second child). 2nd Test Adelaide day-night (December 6–8, 2024): Australia won by 10 wickets in a 3-day match played under the pink ball in Day-Night conditions. India collapsed in both innings — 180 and 175 — as the pink ball movement at Adelaide Oval produced genuine difficulties for the Indian batting lineup. Australia's 337 in the 1st innings was anchored by Travis Head's 140, a typically aggressive innings that put Australia firmly in control; needing just 19 to win, Australia reached 19/0 without the loss of a wicket. 3rd Test Brisbane Gabba (December 14–18, 2024): Match drawn — rain on Day 5 denied India the opportunity to chase Australia's declaration. Australia scored 445 in the 1st innings and declared their 2nd innings at 89/7, setting India a target of 275 with time available. India were 8/0 at stumps when rain made further play impossible, preserving Australia's 1–0 lead (they had tied 1-1 after Perth before Adelaide). 4th Test Melbourne Boxing Day MCG (December 26–30, 2024): Australia won by 184 runs in a match notable for Nitish Kumar Reddy's maiden Test century. Australia posted 474 in the 1st innings; India responded with 369 — rescued from 191/6 by Nitish Kumar Reddy's 105 not out (his maiden international century at 21 years and 216 days), adding 127 with Washington Sundar (50) to reduce the deficit. India's 2nd innings ended with them 184 runs short of Australia's target: Kohli was caught behind for 36 off Scott Boland, one of several times across the series where Boland's off-stump line troubled Kohli. Shubman Gill was controversially dropped for the Melbourne Test. 5th Test Sydney SCG (January 3–5, 2025): Australia won by 6 wickets in a match completed in 3 days, clinching the BGT series 3–1. India scored 185 in the 1st innings (Bumrah's absence through injury for part of the innings reduced India's ability to bat lower-order resistance; Scott Boland took 4/31) and 157 in the 2nd innings (Boland 6/45 — match figures of 10 wickets). Australia made 181 in their 1st innings and chased 162 at 162/4 to win by 6 wickets, completing the BGT 3–1. The result also qualified Australia for the ICC World Test Championship Final 2023–25 against South Africa. Series statistics: Jasprit Bumrah took 32 wickets at an average of 13.06 — the joint-highest tally for an India fast bowler in a Test series and the highest for any India bowler in an away series in Australia. Bumrah was named Player of the Series. Travis Head was Australia's most consistent batter and Pat Cummins led Australia's bowling across the series.

Bumrah's 32-Wicket Series: India's Greatest Away Series Bowling

Jasprit Bumrah's 32 wickets across the 5-Test series at an average of 13.06 — with a strike rate of 28.3 — was one of the finest sustained bowling performances in the history of Test cricket in Australia. Only a handful of bowlers in the history of Tests in Australia have taken more than 30 wickets in a single series; Bumrah achieved the benchmark while India lost the series 3–1, meaning his individual contribution significantly outperformed what was a collectively below-par India batting performance in the middle Tests. Bumrah's Perth opening of 5/30 — dismissing Australia for 104 and setting up India's 295-run win — established the tone: he generated pace, late swing, reverse swing, and a delivery that was almost impossible to play off the pitch consistently over the series. His 5/30 in Perth was the first time in the series that India's batters had support from their bowling attack, and it defined how India won the 1st Test. Australia's batters — Travis Head being the notable exception who counterattacked effectively at Adelaide — were repeatedly dismissed by Bumrah's ability to move the ball both ways at 140+ km/h. The Sydney 5th Test missed Bumrah's full contribution (he had a minor injury), which partly explains why Boland dominated with 10 wickets; but Bumrah's overall series figure of 32 wickets would stand as among the all-time great away fast bowling performances in Test cricket. Bumrah's success also contrasted starkly with India's other bowlers' relative ineffectiveness in Australian conditions, making his series contribution effectively a one-man bowling performance for most of Tests 2, 4, and 5.

Australia's Comeback: Adelaide to Sydney

Australia's ability to win four consecutive Tests (Adelaide, then effectively leading Brisbane though it drew, then Melbourne, then Sydney) after being beaten convincingly in Perth was a tribute to Pat Cummins' captaincy and Australia's batting depth. Travis Head's 140 at Adelaide in the Day-Night Test was the innings that levelled the series — Head's counter-attacking batting against India's pace attack (Bumrah included) in the conditions most favourable to India showed his appetite for high-pressure batting against quality bowling. Nathan Lyon — Australia's off-spinner — played a supporting bowling role across the series, while Scott Boland's exceptional final-Test performance (10/76 across two innings) completed the trophy clinch. Australia's selection management — including playing debutant Beau Webster at Sydney, who contributed 39* in the winning chase — showed confidence in their depth. The series result confirmed that India's dominant BGT record from 2017–2023 had come to an end, partly because India's batting unit beyond Bumrah's bowling had structural vulnerabilities (Rohit Sharma, Kohli, and Gill all struggled at different stages), while Australia at home with their own conditions and pink ball expertise proved too comprehensive across 4 of 5 Tests. Nitish Kumar Reddy's 105* at Melbourne was a bright spot for India — a debut century at the MCG as a 21-year-old demonstrated the talent in India's next generation of batters, even as Australia took the series.