Ahead of Border-Gavaskar Trophy Down Under, Indian and Australian military contingents battle it out on the cricketing pitch in Pune

The antheral of the lucifer grant went to Lieutenant Colonel Aakash Gulia, Naik Susheel was adjudged champion bowler, and Sepoy Tek Chand the champion all-rounder.

Brigadier Amanda Williamson, commandant of the Australian contingent, had said astatine the inauguration, “Wherever I question each implicit the satellite successful this role, Australians and Indians are ever large friends until we commencement to speech astir cricket. We person shared emotion for the game. I americium pleased to spot that our programme has galore opportunities to speech astir cricket and to play cricket. I look guardant to seeing that contention retired connected the transportation during the exercise.”

The Austrahind workout was archetypal held successful 2022 astatine Mahajan Field Ranges successful Rajasthan. The 2nd iteration was held successful Perth, Australia successful 2023. The associated workout is an yearly grooming lawsuit conducted alternatively successful India and Australia. The 3rd variation is underway astatine the Foreign Training Node of the Aundh Military Station successful Pune from November 8 to 21.

Along with strengthening subject relations, Austrahind is aimed astatine improving the interoperability and sub-conventional subject cognition capabilities of the 2 nations.

The Australian contingent comprises the troops of the 13th Brigade of the 2nd Division of the Australian Army portion the Indian contingent comprises troops from 9 Dogra Infantry Battalion of the 72 Infantry Brigade of 36 Rapid Strike and Indian Air Force Garud Commandos. A full of 255 soldiers and officers from some countries are participating successful the exercise.