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This was the first win for India in Australia since February 1981. Rahul Dravid was Man of the Match. India led the series 1–0 [16] The third Test match was the traditional Boxing Day Test played at Melbourne. India got off to a good start, with Virender Sehwag scoring 195, and ended the first day at 4–329. But in the first session on the ...
Virat Kohli scored his 7th Test century in Australia, breaking Sachin Tendulkar's record of most Test centuries for India in Australia. [39] This was Australia's first loss in a Test match at the Perth Stadium and India became the first visiting team to win a Test match at the ground. [40] This was India's biggest victory in terms of runs in ...
Yashasvi Jaiswal's brilliant 161 and an unbeaten 100 by Virat Kohli had India sniffing victory in the opening Border-Gavaskar test after setting Australia an unlikely target of 534 runs at the ...
With two Test matches left, the best Australia could hope for was a drawn series. Before the 3rd Test, four Australian players – Shane Watson, James Pattinson (both of whom had played in the 2nd Test), Mitchell Johnson and Usman Khawaja (who were in the touring party) – were made ineligible for the match following a breach of discipline. [7]
Australia won the third and final match by 12 runs, with India winning the series 2–1. [15] In the first Test, India were bowled out for 36 runs in the second innings, [16] their lowest team total in a Test match. [17] Australia went on to win the match by eight wickets. [18] India then won the second Test by the same margin to level the ...
Ricky Ponting's unbeaten 176 propelled Australia to a humongous score. Australia ended the day with 400/5 from 90 overs, and Ponting was unbeaten on 176, [27] his 19th test hundred and his fifth for the year 2003, a remarkable year for him in which he had hitherto scored 1149 runs at an average of 95.75, and had set his sights for a double ...
Clarke's innings is the highest score and the first Test triple century at the SCG, and third-highest score by an Australian captain in Test cricket, behind Mark Taylor (334*) and Sir Donald Bradman (334). Clarke also took Tendulkar's wicket in the second innings. Ricky Ponting's 134 broke a slump of 31 Test innings without a century.
Australia won the toss and elected to bat. Bad light ended play early on day 1; The tenth time in a row India lost the toss (the most by any team) During the first innings, Ricky Ponting became the highest Australian run scorer in Test matches against India; Sachin Tendulkar went past 14,000 runs in this Test match