Kohli and its supporters are prepared for an exciting Test series. This will be the 16th iteration of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT), which was created in the 1996-97 series. India will then face the Australian team. India and Australia are planning to play four Tests beginning on February 9.
India has won nine out of fifteen series that were completed, while Australia has won five, with one series ending in a draw. As the two teams prepare for the upcoming Test match in Nagpur, they will be looking to gain the upper hand. To look back at the massive hits and losses, we will figure out the past statistics of India-Australia matches.
1. India has a success rate of 29.41% in Tests against Australia, winning 30 and losing 43 out of the 102 matches played (with 1 tie and 28 draws).
2. Sachin Tendulkar is one of three cricketers who have scored over 3,000 runs against Australia in Test matches. Only Jack Hobbs of England has scored more runs in Test cricket than Sachin Tendulkar’s 3630 (average of 55.00) in 39 matches, with a total of 3636 (average of 54.26) in 41 Tests. David Gower of England is the only other batsman to have scored over 3000 runs against Australia.
3. Australia is the only team to have suffered this misfortune in all three instances, the first two being in Sydney in 1894 and Leeds in 1981 against England.
4. In March 2001, Australia’s sixteen-test winning streak was severed in the Kolkata Test.
5. Harbhajan Singh’s remarkable 32 wickets (average of 17.03) in the 2000-01 series is still an Indian record against any opponent in a three-Test series.
6. Laxman’s remarkable score of 283 off 452 balls at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata in March 2001 is still the highest individual Test score made by an Indian against Australia.
7. He is the only Indian bowler to take 30 wickets in a three-Test series.
8. Moreover, VVS Laxman is the only Indian batter to have amassed 500 or more runs in a three-Test series against Australia – 503 (average of 83.83), which included a century and three fifties, in 2000-01.
9. In March 2001, India (171 & 657/7 decl.) beat Australia (445 & 212) by a margin of 171 runs in Kolkata.
10. This was the third time that a side had lost a Test after following on, and this was also the moment in which Harbhajan Singh made history by taking the wickets of Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist, and Shane Warne in three consecutive balls, making it India’s first Test hat-trick.
11. Anil Kumble is the only bowler to have taken a hundred wickets in Tests between India and Australia.
12. Three Australians have gathered over 700 runs in a Test series versus India; Steven Smith achieved 769 runs with an average of 128.16 in the four-Test series in Australia in 2014-15; Sir Donald Bradman managed 715 runs with an average of 178.75 in the five-Test series in Australia in 1947-48; and Ricky Ponting scored 706 runs with an average of 100.85 in the four-Test series in Australia in 2003-04.
13. Virat Kohli is the sole Indian batsman to have scored four centuries in a Test series against Australia on their home soil in 2014-15.
14. Kohli holds the record for the highest tally of runs scored in a series by an Indian against Australia, with 692 runs at an average of 86.50.
15. Kohli was the second batsman in Test history to register two centuries (115 & 141 – at Adelaide in December 2014) on his captaincy debut, with the first being Greg Chappell (Australia) – 123 & 109 not out vs West Indies at Gabba, Brisbane in 1975-76.
16. In the 2000-01 Kolkata Test, VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid created a record partnership of 376 runs for the fifth wicket – the highest-ever stand for any wicket in an India-Australia Test.
17. The only other century stand greater than Laxman and Dravid’s was the 386-run fourth-wicket partnership between Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke in the 2011-12 Adelaide Test.
18. Additionally, Craig McDermott had the best bowling performance in an India-Australia Test series, taking 31 wickets at an average of 21.61 runs in the five-Test series in Australia in 1991-92.
19. Kohli is one of two Indian skippers to have scored a hundred in the fourth innings of a Test, making 141 off 175 balls against Australia in December 2014. Mohammad Azharuddin was the pioneer in this regard, having notched 106 off 162 balls versus Australia in Adelaide in January 1992.
20. Kohli is the only captain to ever make two centuries in a Test match against Australia in Australia.
21. Additionally, he is the second Indian player to achieve a century in each innings of a Test match in Australia, with the first being Vijay Hazare, who scored 116 and 145 at Adelaide in January 1948. Other players from England, West Indies, and Australia who have also managed to make this distinction against Australia in Australia are Herbert Sutcliffe, Wally Hammond, Denis Compton, and Rohan Kanhai.
22. On his captaincy debut, Kohli achieved 256 runs in the 2014 Adelaide Test, making it the highest score by any batsman in a single Test match.
23. Dhoni also has an impressive success rate of 61.53%, winning 8 out of 13 Tests played against Australia.
24. Kohli is also one of the two visiting batsmen to have recorded three centuries at Adelaide, and he is currently averaging 98.50 (394 in four innings).
