The Indian national cricket team toured Australia in the 1991–92 season, just before the 1992 Cricket World Cup. The team was led by Mohammed Azharuddin and played 5 Test matches. Australia won the Test series 4–0. The series is notable from an Indian point of view for Ravi Shastri's double hundred, Sachin Tendulkar's 114 on a bouncy pitch at Perth while the other Indian batsmen struggled, and Kapil Dev becoming the first Indian bowler to take 400 wickets in Tests. The series also saw the debut of Australia's leading Test wicket-taker, Shane Warne.
| Indian cricket team in Australia in 1991–92 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 17 November 1991 - 15 March 1992 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location |  Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Result | Australia won the 5-match series 4-0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test Series
editFirst Test
edit29 November–2 December 1991
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- Australia won the toss and decided to field.
- Javagal Srinath (Ind) made his Test debut.
Second Test
editThird Test
edit2–6 January 1992
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- India won the toss and decided to field.
- Shane Warne (Aus) and Subroto Banerjee (Ind) made their Test debuts.
Fourth Test
editFifth Test
edit1–5 February 1992
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- Australia won the toss and decided to bat.
- Wayne N. Phillips and Paul Reiffel (Aus) made their Test debuts.
- Ian Healy (Aus) passed 1,000 runs in Tests.[1]
- Kapil Dev (Ind) reached 400 wickets in Tests.[1]
- This was Dilip Vengsarkar's last Test match.
Prior to the Test series, India also competed in the World Series Cup tri-nation One-Day International tournament involving Australia and the West Indies. The West Indies brought a comparatively inexperienced team, having dropped Viv Richards and smarting from the recent retirements of Gordon Greenidge and Jeff Dujon. India won three of their eight round-robin matches and also tied one match against the West Indies. In the best-of-three final with Australia they lost 2–0.
External links
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Fifth Test Match, Australia v India, 1991-92". Wisden. ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
- Wisden Cricketers Almanack
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