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Ahead of the start of the India-Australia Test series, here’s a look at top performers and record holders in 107 Test matches played so far between the two teams.
The 2024-25 edition of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy is set to start on November 22 in Perth. (Picture Credit: AFP)
India will face Australia in a five-match Test series. The series opener is scheduled to take place at Optus Stadium in Perth from November 22 onwards, and the next four matches will be played at Adelaide Oval (December 6-10), The Gabba in Brisbane (December 14-18), Melbourne (December 26-30), and Sydney (January 3-7). India has won the last four editions of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, two of which were played on Australian soil.
Under the leadership of Rohit Sharma, India will be desperate to complete the hat-trick of series wins this time around and also take revenge for defeat in last year’s World Test Championship (WTC) final. If India manages to win at least four Tests in the upcoming series, it will also confirm the Rohit Sharma-led side’s place in the WTC 2025 final, which will be played at The Lord’s next year.
Ahead of the start of the 2024-25 edition of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, here’s a look at top performers and record holders in 107 Tests played so far between the two teams:
- Most wins: 45 in 107 Tests for Australia.
- Highest total: 705 for 7 (declare) in 187.3 overs by India at Sydney Cricket Ground in January 2004.
- Lowest total: 36 all out in 21.2 overs by India at Adelaide Oval in December 2020.
- Biggest win (innings): Australia beat India by an innings and 226 runs in Brisbane, November 1947.
- Biggest win (runs): Australia beat India by 342 runs in Nagpur, October 2004.
- Biggest win (wickets): Australia beat India by 10 wickets on three occasions.
- Smallest win (runs): India beat Australia by 13 runs in Mumbai, November 2004.
- Smallest win (wickets): India beat Australia by 1 wicket in Mohali, October 2010.
- Most runs: 3630 runs in 39 matches by Sachin Tendulkar (India).
- Highest score: 329 not out from 468 balls by Michael Clarke of Australia at Sydney Cricket Ground, January 2012.
- Highest average (min 10 innings): 77.75 by Ravi Shastri (622 runs in nine Tests).
- Most 100s: 11 centuries in 39 matches by Sachin Tendulkar.
- Most 50s: 16 half-centuries by Sachin Tendulkar of India.
- Most ducks: 12 zeros in 25 Tests by Ishant Sharma of India.
- Most sixes: 25 maximums by Sachin Tendulkar.
- Most sixes in an innings: 6 sixes each by Ravi Shastri, Matthew Hayden, and MS Dhoni.
- Most runs in a series: 769 runs in four Tests by Steve Smith during the 2014-15 Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
- Most wickets: 121 wickets in 27 Tests by Nathan Lyon of Australia.
- Best bowling figures (innings): 9 wickets for 69 runs in 35.5 overs by Jasubhai Patel of India in Kanpur, December 1959.
- Best bowling figures (match): 15 wickets for 217 runs in 80.1 overs by Harbhajan Singh of India in Chennai, March 2001.
- Most five-wicket hauls: 10 fifers in 20 Tests by Anil Kumble of India.
- Most 10 wickets in a match: 3 10-wicket hauls in 18 Tests by Harbhajan Singh.
- Most wickets in a series: 32 wickets in three Tests by Harbhajan Singh during the 2000-01 Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
- Most dismissals: 75 (73 catches, 2 stumpings) in 18 Tests by Adam Gilchrist of Australia.
- Most catches: 46 catches in 32 Tests by Rahul Dravid of India.
- Highest partnership: 386 runs for the 4th wicket between Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke of Australia in Adelaide, January 2012.
- Most matches: 39 Tests by Sachin Tendulkar.
- Most wins as captain: 8 wins in 13 Tests by MS Dhoni of India.
In the last Test series played between India and Australia in 2023, India managed to win the series with a score line of 2-1.
