Border-Gavaskar TrophyMatch 1 · Test
Australia beat India by 122 runs - Match Info
Melbourne Cricket Ground, . Australia won the toss and chose to bat.
Match details
- Match
- Match 1, Test · Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2011/12
- Date
- (Mon 26 Dec, 14:00 PKT)
- Venue
- Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia
- Toss
- Australia, chose to bat
- Result
- Australia won by 122 runs
- Player of the match
- James Pattinson
- Umpires
- Marais Erasmus (South Africa), Ian Gould (New Zealand)
- TV umpire
- Paul Reiffel (Australia)
- Reserve umpire
- Ashley Barrow (Australia)
- Match referee
- Ranjan Madugalle (Sri Lanka)
Head to head (Test)
Played 112 · AUS won 48 · IND won 33 · Tied 1 · Drawn 30
Last 5 meetings
- Match 2 · Border-Gavaskar Trophy · IND 495 & 207/3 v AUS 478 & 223India won by 7 wickets
- Match 1 · Border-Gavaskar Trophy · IND 405 & 216/9 v AUS 428 & 192India won by 1 wicket
- Match 4 · Border-Gavaskar Trophy · IND 441 & 295 v AUS 355 & 209India won by 172 runs
- Match 3 · Border-Gavaskar Trophy · IND 613/7d & 208/5d v AUS 577 & 31/0Match drawn
- Match 2 · Border-Gavaskar Trophy · IND 469 & 314/3d v AUS 268 & 195India won by 320 runs
Recent results (Test)
- L vs NZ · AUS 136 & 233 v NZ 150 & 226New Zealand won by 7 runs
- W vs NZ · AUS 427 & 19/1 v NZ 295 & 150Australia won by 9 wickets
- W vs SA · SA 266 & 339 v AUS 296 & 310/8Australia won by 2 wickets
- L vs SA · SA 96 & 236/2 v AUS 284 & 47South Africa won by 8 wickets
- D vs SL · SL 473 & 7/0 v AUS 316 & 488Match drawn
- D vs WI · IND 482 & 242/9 v WI 590 & 134Match drawn
- W vs WI · IND 631/7d v WI 153 & 463India won by an innings and 15 runs
- W vs WI · IND 209 & 276/5 v WI 304 & 180India won by 5 wickets
- L vs ENG · ENG 591/6d v IND 300 & 283England won by an innings and 8 runs
- L vs ENG · ENG 710/7d v IND 224 & 244England won by an innings and 242 runs
Top players in this fixture
AUS v IND Tests, among players who have played for either side in the last 18 months.
| Most runs | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sachin Tendulkar IND | 31 | 3151 | 241 | 60.60 | 60.06 |
| VVS Laxman IND | 25 | 2279 | 281 | 55.59 | 55.72 |
| Ricky Ponting AUS | 25 | 2011 | 257 | 47.88 | 57.36 |
| Rahul Dravid IND | 28 | 1949 | 233 | 42.37 | 39.93 |
| Virender Sehwag IND | 16 | 1513 | 195 | 48.81 | 75.61 |
| Most wickets | M | Wkts | Econ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harbhajan Singh IND | 16 | 90 | 2.99 |
| Zaheer Khan IND | 15 | 46 | 3.42 |
| Mitchell Johnson AUS | 10 | 37 | 3.17 |
| Ishant Sharma IND | 8 | 24 | 3.35 |
| Amit Mishra IND | 3 | 14 | 2.76 |
Tests at Melbourne Cricket Ground
- Matches
- 103
- Average 1st-innings score
- 305
- Won batting first
- 52
- Won chasing
- 36
- Highest total
- 604 by Australia ()