The 1st played Test cricket Australia and India against each other in 1947, last two decades but it’s over that the rivalry has grown into one of the dominant duels in the game.
The Border-Gavaskar Trophy Ahead of the next installment of how each series has played out since the turn of the millennium,
India vs Australia 2000-01
The history before the two sides took the rivalry up several notches and featured the greatest comebacks. Steve Waugh and their victory in the opening Test made it a record 16 wins in a row and Australia had built a formidable side – perhaps their best ever.
They a fifth-wicket stand of 376 and set Australia 384 to get pair .
Australia vs India, 2003-04
This featured series a truly epic encounter in Adelaide, 242 had led Australia to a seemingly of Ricky Ponting’s and impregnable 556, but once again Dravid and Laxman had other ideas, They added 303 for the fifth wicket, which Dravid went on to post 233 one-innings contest as India almost drew level, to make it.
India vs Australia, 2004-05
Adam Gilchrist shepherded their first series win in India in 35 years, Captained absence of an injured Ponting they secured one of their finest overseas series wins. The test at Bangalore, a century alongside a majestic 151 on debut by Michael Clarke .
From 136 for 0 to 235 Australia had folded all out in the first innings before Sehwag cracked 155. And India in pursuit of a target of 229 was left wondering about what could have been if it hadn’t rained
In a 342-run win in Nagpur Australia steamrolled India with 114 and 97, while Clarke made 91 where India nicked a thrilling win, defending just 107 after Clarke had taken an extraordinary 6 for 9.
Australia vs India, 2007-08
Harbhajan Singh The pall of the racism scandal involving Andrew Symonds hung heavy over the fractious 2007-08 Test series
Triumph of four years earlier, Australia failed to repeat the weakness of their spin attack proving to tell
the final Test and he collected 12 wickets, although at the eye-watering cost of 358 runs and sliding from 229 for 2 to 355 all out, and eventually a target of 382 proved well out of reach.
