Talking about the MCG, Modi said it would be a deserving venue for the Cricket World Cup finals 2015 and hope that India and Australia will play that match. “No business is serious enough to keep an Australian and an Indian from discussing this great game,” Modi said.
Before the dinner by Abbott, Modi presented “Skippers” memento carrying replica of Mahatma Gandhi's charkha with three cricket balls signed by him and World Cup winning Indian captains Kapil Dev and M S Dhoni.
He said, “My memorable visit to Australia ends tonight, but a new journey of our relationship has begun.”