Australian cricket team in India in 1996–97

International cricket tour

Border–Gavaskar Trophy 1996–97

	Australia	India
Dates	5 – 14 October 1996
Captains	Mark Taylor	Sachin Tendulkar
Test series
Result	India won the 1-match series 1–0
Player of the series	Nayan Mongia (Ind)

The Australian cricket team toured India in October 1996 for a one-off Test match.^[1]

Squads

Australia^[2]	India^[3]
Mark Taylor (c) Michael Slater Ricky Ponting Mark Waugh Steve Waugh Michael Bevan Ian Healy (wk) Brad Hogg Paul Reiffel Peter McIntyre Glenn McGrath	Sachin Tendulkar (c) Nayan Mongia (wk) Vikram Rathour Sourav Ganguly Mohammad Azharuddin Rahul Dravid Sunil Joshi Aashish Kapoor Anil Kumble David Johnson Venkatesh Prasad

Tour match

5–7 October
Scorecard

Australians	v	Indian Board President's XI
358/8d (91 overs) Michael Bevan 100* (99) Dodda Ganesh 5/103 (21 overs)		262 (79.5 overs) Pankaj Dharmani 130* (170) Mark Waugh 6/68 (16.5 overs)
99/2 (32 overs) Mark Taylor 41 (77) David Johnson 1/23 (10 overs)

Match drawn
Dhruve Pandove Stadium, Patiala
Umpires: Subroto Porel (Ind) and Ivaturi Shivram (Ind)

Australians won the toss and elected to bat.

Only Test

10–13 October 1996
Scorecard

Australia	v	India
182 (73 overs) Michael Slater 44 (96) Anil Kumble 4/63 (24 overs)		361 (131.4 overs) Nayan Mongia 152 (366) Paul Reiffel 3/35 (17 overs)
234 (108.3 overs) Steve Waugh 67* (221) Anil Kumble 5/67 (41 overs)		58/3 (13.2 overs) Sourav Ganguly 21* (29) Paul Reiffel 2/24 (6 overs)

India won by 7 wickets
Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Umpires: Peter Willey (Eng) and Srinivas Venkataraghavan (Ind)
Player of the match: Nayan Mongia (Ind)

Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
Brad Hogg (Aus) and David Johnson (Ind) both made their Test debuts.

References

^ "Australia in India, Oct 1996 (1 TEST)". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
^ "Australia Squad". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
^ "India Squad". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 23 August 2017.

External links

Tour home at ESPNcricinfo archives

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