Border-Gavaskar TrophyMatch 1 · Test
India and Australia draw - Match Info
M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, . Australia won the toss and chose to bat.
Match details
- Match
- Match 1, Test · Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2008/09
- Date
- (Thu 9 Oct, 15:00 PKT)
- Venue
- M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, India
- Toss
- Australia, chose to bat
- Result
- Match drawn
- Player of the match
- Zaheer Khan
- Umpires
- Asad Rauf (Pakistan), Rudi Koertzen (South Africa)
- TV umpire
- Amiesh Saheba (India)
- Reserve umpire
- Sanjay Hazare (India)
- Match referee
- Chris Broad
Head to head (Test)
Played 112 · IND won 33 · AUS won 48 · Tied 1 · Drawn 30
Last 5 meetings
- Match 4 · Border-Gavaskar Trophy · AUS 563 v IND 526 & 269/7dMatch drawn
- Match 3 · Border-Gavaskar Trophy · AUS 212 & 340 v IND 330 & 294India won by 72 runs
- Match 2 · Border-Gavaskar Trophy · AUS 463 & 401/7d v IND 532 & 210Australia won by 122 runs
- 1st Test · India tour of Australia · AUS 343 & 351/7d v IND 196 & 161Australia won by 337 runs
- 4th Test · Australia tour of India · IND 104 & 205 v AUS 203 & 93India won by 13 runs
Recent results (Test)
- L vs SL · SL 396 & 123/2 v IND 249 & 268Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets
- W vs SL · SL 292 & 136 v IND 329 & 269India won by 170 runs
- L vs SL · SL 600/6d v IND 223 & 138Sri Lanka won by an innings and 239 runs
- W vs SA · IND 325 & 64/2 v SA 265 & 121India won by 8 wickets
- L vs SA · IND 76 & 328 v SA 494/7dSouth Africa won by an innings and 90 runs
Top players in this fixture
IND v AUS Tests, among players who have played for either side in the last 18 months.
| Most runs | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sachin Tendulkar IND | 25 | 2352 | 241 | 56.00 | 61.94 |
| VVS Laxman IND | 20 | 1823 | 281 | 50.64 | 56.46 |
| Rahul Dravid IND | 22 | 1717 | 233 | 47.69 | 39.16 |
| Matthew Hayden AUS | 14 | 1654 | 203 | 66.16 | 66.27 |
| Ricky Ponting AUS | 19 | 1521 | 257 | 49.06 | 58.70 |
| Most wickets | M | Wkts | Econ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anil Kumble IND | 18 | 108 | 3.12 |
| Harbhajan Singh IND | 11 | 64 | 3.21 |
| Brett Lee AUS | 8 | 45 | 3.37 |
| Zaheer Khan IND | 9 | 23 | 3.49 |
| Mitchell Johnson AUS | 4 | 16 | 3.13 |
Tests at M Chinnaswamy Stadium
- Matches
- 3
- Average 1st-innings score
- 272
- Won batting first
- 1
- Won chasing
- 1
- Highest total
- 479 by South Africa ()