Border-Gavaskar TrophyMatch 1 · Test
India beat Australia by 8 wickets - Match Info
MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai, . Australia won the toss and chose to bat.
Match details
- Match
- Match 1, Test · Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2012/13
- Date
- (Fri 22 Feb, 14:00 PKT)
- Venue
- MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai, India
- Toss
- Australia, chose to bat
- Result
- India won by 8 wickets
- Player of the match
- MS Dhoni
- Umpires
- Kumar Dharmasena (Sri Lanka), Marais Erasmus (South Africa)
- TV umpire
- Vineet Kulkarni (India)
- Reserve umpire
- Krishnaraj Srinath (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 604/7d & 167/5d v IND 272 & 201Australia won by 298 runs
- Match 3 · Border-Gavaskar Trophy · AUS 369 v IND 161 & 171Australia won by an innings and 37 runs
- Match 2 · Border-Gavaskar Trophy · AUS 659/4d v IND 191 & 400Australia won by an innings and 68 runs
- Match 1 · Border-Gavaskar Trophy · AUS 333 & 240 v IND 282 & 169Australia won by 122 runs
- Match 2 · Border-Gavaskar Trophy · IND 495 & 207/3 v AUS 478 & 223India won by 7 wickets
Recent results (Test)
- D vs ENG · IND 326/9d v ENG 330 & 352/4dMatch drawn
- L vs ENG · IND 316 & 247 v ENG 523 & 41/3England won by 7 wickets
- L vs ENG · IND 327 & 142 v ENG 413 & 58/0England won by 10 wickets
- W vs ENG · IND 521/8d & 80/1 v ENG 191 & 406India won by 9 wickets
- W vs NZ · IND 353 & 262/5 v NZ 365 & 248India won by 5 wickets
- W vs SL · AUS 432/9d & 141/5 v SL 294 & 278Australia won by 5 wickets
- W vs SL · AUS 460 v SL 156 & 103/7Australia won by an innings and 201 runs
- W vs SL · AUS 450/5d & 278/9 v SL 336 & 255Australia won by 137 runs
- L vs SA · AUS 163 & 322 v SA 225 & 569South Africa won by 309 runs
- D vs SA · AUS 550 & 267/8d v SA 388 & 248/8Match drawn
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 | 35 | 3438 | 241 | 57.30 | 59.65 |
| Ricky Ponting AUS | 29 | 2555 | 257 | 54.36 | 57.70 |
| VVS Laxman IND | 29 | 2434 | 281 | 49.67 | 54.33 |
| Rahul Dravid IND | 32 | 2143 | 233 | 39.69 | 39.45 |
| Virender Sehwag IND | 20 | 1711 | 195 | 43.87 | 75.78 |
| Most wickets | M | Wkts | Econ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harbhajan Singh IND | 16 | 90 | 2.99 |
| Zaheer Khan IND | 19 | 61 | 3.38 |
| Mitchell Johnson AUS | 10 | 37 | 3.17 |
| Ben Hilfenhaus AUS | 6 | 33 | 2.90 |
| Ishant Sharma IND | 12 | 29 | 3.43 |
Tests at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk
- Matches
- 2
- Average 1st-innings score
- 428
- Won batting first
- 0
- Won chasing
- 1
- Highest total
- 627 by India ()