"We absolutely can not wait for visitors to get to the Gabba," said then-Australia skipper and wicket - keeper Tim Paine to Ravichandran Ashwin during the third Test of the 2020/21 campaign in Sydney, when the latter was playing out a stalemate for india with Hanuma Vihari at another side. By then, australia would have realised they had forfeited their opportunity to win the game, and they would have been justified in putting their hopes on another match at the Gabba.

Then again, no team had beaten decades of Australian players in a Test match at the stadium in over 30 years, and india would be missing at least the majority of their usual Test team by the moment the game was played. However, Paine's comments became famous for all the bad purposes for australia, as an unknown bunch of participants gave australians a run for their money, and rishabh pant then hit an unbroken 89 to take india to a resounding victory.

It enabled india to win their second consecutive season victory in australia, after being the first Asian team to do it in 2018/19. Although some may argue that india upset a depleted Australian squad in the past series, the australians had all of their first-choice players in the squad in 2020/21, whilst india was missing the majority of the players that lead them to success the first year along.

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