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From famous Gabba triumph to saving follow-on: How IND went from pride to slide

Rishabh Pant and Shubman Gill made sure that India wins the match, but Test veteran Cheteshwar Pujara shouldered the responsibility and made sure that India didn't loose the Gabba Test

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Shardul Thakur, Rishabh Pant, Prithvi Shaw, Jasprit Bumrah and AkashDeep (Pic: File Pic/X/@BCCI)

Shardul Thakur, Rishabh Pant, Prithvi Shaw, Jasprit Bumrah and AkashDeep (Pic: File Pic/X/@BCCI)

Three years ago, when a depleted India team defeated mighty Australia at the famous Gabba stadium, where they hadn't lost for 32 years, there were wild celebrations on and off the field. The commentator became emotional and uttered those famous words...."Toota hai Gabba ka ghamand" (Gabba's pride is over now).
And here we are today, an India team that boasts the likes of Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and KL Rahul, just about managed to save a game against Australia at the same venue when Akashdeep scraped past Gully to get four runs. This led to heaved sighs of relief by captain Rohit Sharma and the pumping of fists by Virat Kohli and coach Gautam Gambhir. Netizens were quick to point out the fall of standards and even went on to call the team 'shameless'.  Taking to X:

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