<p>Former Test great Allan Border has praised India's cricketing chiefs for showing the right kind of interest to organise a Test series against his country.<br /><br />  <table style="width: 120px; height: 42px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="120" align="right" border="1">  <tbody>  <tr>  <td><img alt="" src="/imagedata/2010/oct/border.jpg" border="0" /></td></tr>  <tr>  <td>  <p align="center"><span style="font-size: 8pt">Allan Border</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>"The long form of the game is under the pump and it's good to see that India's taken a really pro-active step to stop the endless one-day series and get Tests back to the forefront, where it needs to be right now," Border told the The Sun Herald recently.<br /><br />"It's huge that India's the No 1 Test nation and they initiated it too, which is a good sign for Test cricket."<br /><br />He also felt that the series comes as a good relief to the game enveloped in recent controversy. "This series takes on a greater significance given the battering cricket's been copping over the last little while. It's a series that's grown in status over the years," he said.<br /><br />From 1996, Australia and India have fought for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.</p>

Former Test great Allan Border has praised India's cricketing chiefs for showing the right kind of interest to organise a Test series against his country.

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