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The Australian cricket team won the five-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) 2024-25 Test series with a 3-1 margin against India after defeating them by six wickets in the final Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG). Over the course of the last five matches in the BGT, while there were some top-quality performances from a few players of both the sides, others struggled for consistency right throughout the series as well.
In this article, SportsTiger looks at the poor performers of the BGT 2024-25, putting them in the worst playing XI of the series.
Openers: Usman Khawaja, Nathan McSweeney
The veteran Australian opener, Usman Khawaja, wasn’t able to score a fifty in the 10 innings in the BGT 2024-25, getting dismissed six times against Jasprit Bumrah while scoring just 184 runs at an average of 20.44. Nathan McSweeney, who was given the opportunity to bat at the top of the order despite being successful in the middle order in domestic cricket, found it really tough to cope with Jasprit Bumrah, and after struggling for three matches, he was dropped in favour of teenager Sam Konstas.
