It was a rivalry which didn't exist long back. In the famous incident of the 1981 match at MCG, icon former cricketer Sunil Gavaskar staged a walkout and almost foreited the match.
A contentious LBW decision by an Australian umpire was the spark and Gavaskar walked off the pitch with his partner Chetan Chauhan. It was only a timely intervention by the team manager that the situation did not run out of hand.
But during the last decade, things began to change slowly. Here was an Australian team, who were struggling to keep their dominance in world cricket intact and then there was India, an emerging side trying to establish itself.
