Australia–India cricket rivalry

Australia–India cricket rivalry
	2023 Cricket World Cup final match between India and Australia.
Sport	Cricket
Teams	India; Australia;
First meeting	Test: 28 November-4 December 1947 (Australia won by an innings and 226 runs); ODI: 6 December 1980 (India won by 66 runs); T20I: 22 September 2007 (India won by 15 runs);
Latest meeting	Test: 3-5 January 2025 (Australia won by 6 wickets); ODI: 4 March 2025 (India won by 4 wickets); T20I: 22 June 2024 (India won by 24 runs);
Next meeting	Test: February 2027; ODI: TBD; T20I TBD;
Trophy	India: 7 (2 Cricket World Cup, 2 T20 World Cup, 3 Champions Trophy); Australia: 10 (6 Cricket World Cup, 1 T20 World Cup, 2 Champions Trophy, 1 World Test Championship);
Statistics
Meetings total	Test: 112; ODI: 152; T20I: 32;
Most wins	Test: (Australia 48; India 33); ODI: (Australia 84; India 58); T20I: (India 20; Australia 11);

The Australia–India cricket rivalry is an intense rivaly within the sport of cricket.^[1] The matches between these countries are known for their intensity. It is considered as one of the biggest matches in the world, and is among the most-viewed sport games.

History

Australia and India first played Test cricket against each other in 1947, but it's over the last two decades that the rivalry has grown into one of the dominant duels in the game.^[2]

Summary of results

The two sides have played a total of 295 times. Australia has won 143 matches compared to India's 111 victories.

Format	Matches played	India won	Australia won	Draw/Tie/No Result
Test	112	33	48	31
ODI	152	58	84	10
T20I	32	20	11	1
Total	296	111	143	42

Bold indicates most wins.

ICC matches

Australia has the better record in the Cricket World Cup, having faced India 14 times. In the 2003 Cricket World Cup Final, Australia knocked out India tremendously. The last time the two cricket frenzy nations clashed in 2023 Cricket World Cup final match played at the Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad, Australia again dominated India and Australia won by 6 wickets.

In the T20 World Cup, India have mostly got the better of Australia. India has won 4 out of the 6 meetings. India won the 2007 T20 World Cup by defeating Pakistan in the final and 2024 T20 World Cup by defeating South Africa in the final. Australia won the 2021 T20 World Cup by defeating New Zealand.

In the Champions Trophy also, India has a little bit of domination on Australia. India won three of the five meetings between the two sides.

In the World Test Championship , Australia has slight edge against India. India won five of the fourteen meetings while Australia won six matches, which includes 2023 WTC Final which was eventually won by Australia.

Head to Head results in ICC events
Tournament	Matches played	India won	Australia won	Draw/Tie/No result
World Cup	14	5	9	0
T20 World Cup	6	4	2	0
Champions Trophy	5	3	1	1
World Test Championship	14	5	6	3
Total	38	17	18	4

ICC tournaments won

The two countries have played in World Cups, the Champions Trophy, and the World Test Championship, all of which are organised by the governing body of world cricket, the International Cricket Council. Australia has won 10 ICC tournaments compared to India's 6. At senior-level, Australia has won 10 ICC trophies (6 Cricket World Cups, 1 T20 World Cup, 2 Champions Trophy, 1 World Test Championship), while India has won 7 (2 Cricket World Cup, 2 T20 World Cup, 3 Champions Trophy).

Australia has won the ICC Cricket World Cup six times and India has done so twice. India has won the ICC Men's T20 World Cup twice (in 2007 and 2024) and Australia has won it once (2021). In the ICC Champions Trophy, another ODI tournament, India has won the trophy 3 times while Australia have won it 2 times. Australia has won the World Test Championship once, although India finished as runners-up in both the editions, having played in the finals.

Tournament	India	Australia
ICC Cricket World Cup	2	6
ICC T20 World Cup	2	1
ICC Champions Trophy	3	2
ICC World Test Championship	0	1
ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup	5	4
Total	12	14

ICC ODI World Cups (Head to Head Results)

Year	Stage	Venue	Result	Player of the match	Scorecard	Ref
1983	Group Stage	Trent Bridge, Nottingham, England	Australia won by 162 runs	Trevor Chappell	Scorecard
1983	Group Stage	County Ground, Chelmsford, England	India won by 118 runs	Roger Binny	Scorecard
1987	Group Stage	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, India	Australia won by 1 runs	Geoff Marsh	Scorecard
1987	Group Stage	Arun Jaitley Cricket Stadium, Delhi, India	India won by 56 runs	Mohammad Azharuddin	Scorecard
1992	Group Stage	The Gabba, Brisbane, Australia	Australia won by 1 runs	Dean Jones	Scorecard
1996	Group Stage	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, India	Australia won by 16 runs	Mark Waugh	Scorecard
1999	Group Stage	The Oval, London, England	Australia won by 77 runs	Glenn McGrath	Scorecard
2003	Group Stage	Centurion Park, Centurion, South Africa	Australia won by 9 wickets	Jason Gillespie	Scorecard
2003	Final	Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa	Australia won by 125 runs	Ricky Ponting	Scorecard	^[3]^[4]
2011	Quarter-Final	Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad, India	India won by 5 wickets	Yuvraj Singh	Scorecard
2015	Semi-Final	Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia	Australia won by 95 runs	Steven Smith	Scorecard
2019	Group Stage	The Oval, London, England	India won by 36 runs	Shikhar Dhawan	Scorecard
2023	Group Stage	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, India	India won by 6 wickets	KL Rahul	Scorecard
2023	Final	Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad, India	Australia won by 6 wickets	Travis Head	Scorecard	^[5]^[6]^[7]

ICC Men's T20 World Cups (Head to Head Results)

Year	Stage	Venue	Result	Player of the match	Scorecard
2007	Semi-Final	Kingsmead Cricket Ground, Durban, South Africa	India won by 15 runs	Yuvraj Singh	Scorecard
2010	Super 8s	Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados	Australia won by 49 runs	David Warner	Scorecard
2012	Super 8s	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka	Australia won by 9 wickets	Shane Watson	Scorecard
2014	Super 10	Sher-e-Bangla Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh	India won by 73 runs	Ravichandran Ashwin	Scorecard
2016	Super 10	Inderjit Singh Bindra Stadium, Mohali, India	India won by 6 wickets	Virat Kohli	Scorecard
2024	Super 8	Daren Sammy Ground, Gros Islet, Saint Lucia	India won by 24 runs	Rohit Sharma	Scorecard

ICC Champions Trophy (Head to Head Results)

Year	Stage	Venue	Result	Player of the match	Scorecard	Ref
1998	Quarter-final	Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh	India won by 44 runs	Sachin Tendulkar	Scorecard
2000	Quarter-final	Gymkhana Club Ground, Nairobi, Kenya	India won by 20 runs	Yuvraj Singh	Scorecard
2006	Group stage	PCA Stadium, Mohali, India	Australia won by 6 wickets	Damien Martyn	Scorecard
2009	Group stage	SuperSport Park, Centurion, South Africa	No result		Scorecard
2025	Semi-final	Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai, UAE	India won by 4 wickets	Virat Kohli	Scorecard	^[8]

List of test series

Series	Season	Host team	Tests	Australia	India	Drawn	Tied	Australia Captain	India Captain	Result	Most runs and wkts	Player of the series
1	1947–48	Australia	5	4	0	1	0	Don Bradman	Lala Amarnath	Australia	Don Bradman (715 runs) Ray Lindwall (18 wkts)
2	1956–57	India	3	2	0	1	0	Ian Johnson Ray Lindwall (2nd test)	Polly Umrigar		Neil Harvey (253 runs) Richie Benaud (23 wkts)
3	1959–60	India	5	2	1	2	0	Richie Benaud	Gulabrai Ramchand		Nari Contractor (438 runs) Richie Benaud (29 wkts)
4	1964–65	India	3	1	1	1	0	Bob Simpson	Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi	Drawn	Bob Simpson (292 runs) Bapu Nadkarni (17 wkts)
5	1967–68	Australia	4	4	0	0	0	Bob Simpson (1st, 2nd tests) Bill Lawry	Chandu Borde (1st test) Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi	Australia	Bob Cowper (485 runs) E.A.S. Prasanna (17 wkts)
6	1969–70	India	5	3	1	1	0	Bill Lawry	Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi		Keith Stackpole (368 runs) Ashley Mallett (17 wkts)
7	1977–78	Australia	5	3	2	0	0	Bob Simpson	Bishan Singh Bedi		Bob Simpson (539 runs) Bishan Bedi (31 wkts)
8	1979–80	India	6	0	2	4	0	Kim Hughes	Sunil Gavaskar	India	Kim Hughes (594 runs) Kapil Dev (28 wkts)
9	1980–81	Australia	3	1	1	1	0	Greg Chappell	Sunil Gavaskar	Drawn	Greg Chappell(368 runs) Dennis Lillee(21 wkts)
10	1985–86	Australia	3	0	0	3	0	Allan Border	Kapil Dev	Drawn	Sunil Gavaskar(356 runs) Shivlal Yadav(15 wkts)
11	1986–87	India	3	0	0	2	1		Kapil Dev	Drawn	Dean Jones (371 runs) Greg Matthews (14 wkts)
12	1991–92	Australia	5	4	0	1	0		Mohammad Azharuddin	Australia	David Boon (556 runs) Craig McDermott (31 wkts)
13	1996–97	India	1	0	1	0	0	Mark Taylor	Sachin Tendulkar	India	Nayan Mongia (152 runs ) Anil Kumble (9 wkts)	Nayan Mongia
14	1997–98	India	3	1	2	0	0	Mark Taylor	Mohd Azharuddin	India	Sachin Tendulkar (446 runs) Anil Kumble (23 wkts)	Sachin Tendulkar
15	1999–2000	Australia	3	3	0	0	0	Steve Waugh	Sachin Tendulkar	Australia	Ricky Ponting (375 runs) Glenn McGrath (18 wkts)	Sachin Tendulkar
16	2000–01	India	3	1	2	0	0		Sourav Ganguly	India	Matthew Hayden (549 runs) Harbhajan Singh (32 wkts)	Harbhajan Singh
17	2003–04	Australia	4	1	1	2	0		Sourav Ganguly	Drawn	Ricky Ponting (706 runs) Anil Kumble (24 wkts)	Rahul Dravid
18	2004–05	India	4	2	1	1	0	Adam Gilchrist (1-3 Tests) Ricky Ponting (4th Test)	Sourav Ganguly (1st, 2nd Tests) Rahul Dravid (3rd, 4th Tests)	Australia	Damien Martyn (444 runs) Anil Kumble (27 wickets)	Damien Martyn
19	2007–08	Australia	4	2	1	1	0	Ricky Ponting	Anil Kumble	Australia	Sachin Tendulkar (493 runs) Brett Lee (24 wkts)	Brett Lee
20	2008–09	India	4	0	2	2	0		Anil Kumble (1st and 3rd tests) MS Dhoni(2nd and 4th tests)	India	Gautam Gambhir (463 runs) Ishant Sharma (15 wkts) Harbhajan Singh (15 wkts)	Ishant Sharma
21	2010–11	India	2	0	2	0	0		MS Dhoni	India	Sachin Tendulkar (403 runs) Zaheer Khan (12 wkts)	Sachin Tendulkar
22	2011–12	Australia	4	4	0	0	0	Michael Clarke	MS Dhoni (1st–3rd Tests) Virender Sehwag (4th Test)	Australia	Michael Clarke (626 runs) Ben Hilfenhaus (27 wkts)	Michael Clarke
23	2012–13	India	4	0	4	0	0	Michael Clarke Shane Watson (4th test)	MS Dhoni	India	Murali Vijay (430 runs) Ravichandran Ashwin (29 wkts)	Ravichandran Ashwin
24	2014–15	Australia	4	2	0	2	0	Michael Clarke (1st test) Steve Smith	Virat Kohli (1st, 4th tests) MS Dhoni (2nd, 3rd tests)	Australia	Steve Smith (769 runs) Nathan Lyon (23 wkts)	Steve Smith
25	2016–17	India	4	1	2	1	0	Steve Smith	Virat Kohli Ajinkya Rahane (4th test)	India	Steve Smith (499 runs) Ravindra Jadeja (25 wkts)	Ravindra Jadeja
26	2018–19	Australia	4	1	2	1	0	Tim Paine	Virat Kohli	India	Cheteshwar Pujara (521 runs) Jasprit Bumrah(21 wkts) Nathan Lyon(21 wkts)	Cheteshwar Pujara
27	2020–21	Australia	4	1	2	1	0	Tim Paine	Virat Kohli (1st test) Ajinkya Rahane	India	Marnus Labuschagne (426 runs) Pat Cummins (21 wkts)	Pat Cummins
28	2022–23	India	4	1	2	1	0	Pat Cummins Steve Smith (3rd & 4th tests)	Rohit Sharma	India	Usman Khawaja (333 runs) Ravichandran Ashwin (25 wkts)	Ravindra Jadeja Ravichandran Ashwin
29	2024-25	Australia	5	3	1	1	0	Pat Cummins	Rohit Sharma(2nd - 4th test) Jasprit Bumrah(1st & 5th tests)	Australia	Travis Head(448 runs) Jasprit Bumrah(32 wkts)	Jasprit Bumrah

References

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^ Stern, John. "Final – 2003 World Cup: Australia v India". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. reprinted by ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 5 June 2015. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
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^ "ICC Champions Trophy 2025: India to face Australia in semifinal on March 4". The Hindu. Retrieved 2 March 2025.

[1] "India vs Australia: A rivalry of cricket, for cricket and by cricket". Hindistan Times.

[2] "India-Australia rivalry".

[3] Stern, John. "Final – 2003 World Cup: Australia v India". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. reprinted by ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 5 June 2015. Retrieved 26 May 2015.

[4] "ICC World Cup, Final: Australia v Sri Lanka at Johannesburg, Mar 23, 2003". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 28 April 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2015.

[5] ET Online (22 March 2023). "ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 final to be held at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad". The Economic Times. Archived from the original on 16 November 2023. Retrieved 22 March 2023.

[6] India Today Sports Desk (16 November 2023). "World Cup: 20 years after Johannesburg classic, India and Australia to meet in final in Ahmedabad". India Today. Archived from the original on 18 November 2023. Retrieved 16 November 2023.

[7] "Final: Final, ICC Cricket World Cup at Ahmedabad, Nov 19 2023". 19 November 2023. Retrieved 19 November 2023.

[8] "ICC Champions Trophy 2025: India to face Australia in semifinal on March 4". The Hindu. Retrieved 2 March 2025.

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