The five-match Test series between India and Australia is levelled at 1-1 after three games. The fourth contest at the Melbourne Cricket Ground could decide the fate of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25. If India win, the visiting team will retain the trophy, but if the hosts clinch a victory, they are likely to lift the BGT for the first time in more than a decade. Jasprit Bumrah has been Australia’s biggest headache so far in the action-packed series, with 21 wickets in just three red-ball games.

In the previous contest at the Gabba in Brisbane, he took 9 scalps. He is on the verge of creating history in the fourth match at the Melbourne Cricket Board. The veteran needs 12 wickets to reach the 33-scalp mark and become the first bowler in the history of the famous rivalry to touch this figure.

Harbhajan Singh has taken the highest wickets in a bilateral Test series between India and Australia, with 32 in the 2000/01 Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

Bowlers with most wickets in a single edition of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy:

Harbhajan Singh (2000/01)- 32

Ravichandran Ashwin (2012/13)- 29

Ben Hilfenhaus (2011/12)- 27

Anil Kumble (2004/05)- 27

Ravichandran Ashwin (2022/23)-26

Jasprit Bumrah has 15 wickets at the MCG in Tests. If he takes one more scalp, he will go past Anil Kumble to become the Indian bowler with the most wickets at the iconic venue. If he takes 5 wickets in the contest, he will become the first Indian cricketer to amass 20 wickets in red-ball cricket in Melbourne.