India-Australia Test match: Border-Gavaskar trophy on offer (6 Sep 1996)

Friday 06, September 1996

India-Australia Test match: Border-Gavaskar trophy on offer

Daily News

The Australian Cricket Board and the Board of Control for Cricket in India have agreed to institute a new trophy for Test match competition between the two countries.

The Border-Gavaskar trophy named in honour of the only two batsmen in Test history to have scored more than 10,000 runs will be presented for the first time to the winner of next month`s oneoff Test match in New Delhi.

ACAB Chief Executive Officer, Graham Halbish said the design and the funding of the Border-Gavaskar trophy had been overseen by the Australia-India Council.

Halbish said Border would travel to India next month to join Gavaskar in New Delhi for the Test match and to present the new trophy on the inaugural occasion.

Speaking from Colombo on the eve of the Australia-India one-day match in the Singer Series in Sri Lanka, ACB Chairman, Mr. Denis Rogers said his Board was pleased to further strengthen links between the two countries.

``Australia and India have a Test match culture extending back almost 50 years since they first played and the two Boards are both great supporters of the continued development of cricket,`` Mr. Roger said.

The Australia-India New Horizons program which was designed to

strengthen all sporting links between Australia and India will also donate a trophy for the one-day match to be held in Chandigarh on November 3.

Source :: Daily News (https://www.lanka.net)