Unlike other series, Brisbane hosted the last Test match of the four-Test series with both the teams level at 1-1 in the series. With Australia having won 42 Test matches out of a total of 62 Test matches till that Test, Gabba had been Australia’s stronghold before Indian conquered the Gabba.

“It was just a venue that Australia does not lose at but we were nervous, really, really nervous. We just didn’t lose there. You feel like you’ve got that sort of ‘chest out’ mentality. You have that bravado. It felt like, you know, we are going to have to work hard here, but we just knew if we (could) get into (a winning) position, we would be okay.” Warner recalled while speaking with Fox Sports.

India had come into Brisbane after levelling the series with a win at Melbourne in the third Test match. With India replying with a first innings’ total of 336 runs against Australia’s first innings total of 369, the match saw Australia being bowled out for a second innings’ total of 294 runs, thanks to a five-wicket haul by Mohammad Siraj.

Having set a target of 328 runs to win the series, India won the match with three wickets in hand courtesy of fine knocks by Shubman Gill, Chetashwar Pujara and the heroics of wicket-keeper Rishabh Pant, who remained unbeaten on 89. Pant stitched together a 53-run partnership for the sixth wicket with Washington Sundar and Warner remembered the crucial partnership between the two. “What people probably didn’t realise at the time was that Washington Sundar actually opened the batting for his Ranji Trophy team, so it wasn’t as (though he was) a number seven coming in. This was actually a first-class batter who could open the batting and hold a stick,” Warner remembered about the partnership.