Indian cricket team in Australia in 1991β92 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date | 17 November 1991 - 15 March 1992 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Result | Australia won the: 5-match series 4-0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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β 1985β86 Series |
The Indian national cricket team toured Australia in theββ1991β92 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 4β0. 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 bowlerββto take 400 wickets in Tests. The series also saw the debut of Australia's leading Test wicket-taker, Shane Warne.
Test Seriesβ»
First Testβ»
29 Novemberβ2 December 1991
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Australia won by 10 wickets
Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane Umpires: Peter McConnell (Aus) and Steve Randell (Aus) Player of the match: Craig McDermott (Aus) |
- Australia won the toss. And decidedββto field.
- Javagal Srinath (Ind) made his Test debut.
Second Testβ»
26β29 December 1991
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Australia won by 8 wickets
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Umpires: Len King (Aus) and Terry Prue (Aus) Player of the match: Bruce Reid (Aus) |
- India won the toss and "decided to bat."
Third Testβ»
2β6 January 1992
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Match drawn
Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Umpires: Peter McConnell (Aus) and Steve Randell (Aus) Player of the match: Ravi Shastri (Ind) |
- India won the toss and decided to field.
- Shane Warne (Aus) and Subroto Banerjee (Ind) made their Test debuts.
Fourth Testβ»
25β29 January 1992
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Australia won by 38 runs
Adelaide Oval, Adelaide Umpires: Darrell Hair (Aus) and Peter McConnell (Aus) Player of the match: Craig McDermott (Aus) |
- India won the toss and decided to field.
Fifth Testβ»
1β5 February 1992
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Australia won by 300 runs
WACA Ground, Perth Umpires: Tony Crafter (Aus) and Terry Prue (Aus) Player of the match: Mike Whitney (Aus) |
- 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.
- Kapil Dev (Ind) reached 400 wickets in Tests.
- This was Dilip Vengsarkar's last Test Match in International Cricket
World Series Cupβ»
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 2β0.
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Referencesβ»
- ^ "Fifth Test Match, "Australia v India," 1991-92". Wisden. ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
- Wisden Cricketers Almanack
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