Indian cricket team in Australia in 1977–78
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Indian cricket team in Australia in 1977–78 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Date | 2 December 1977 – 3 February 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Result | Australia won the 5-match series 3–2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||
The India national cricket team toured Australia in the 1977–78 season to play 5 Test matches. Australia won the test series 3–2. The matches were played at the same time as the first World Series Cricket matches.
Test series
1st Test
2nd Test
3rd Test
30 December 1977–4 January 1978
Scorecard |
v
|
||
- India won the toss and decided to bat.
- This was India's first Test win in Australia.[1]
4th Test
5th Test
28 January–3 February 1978
Scorecard |
v
|
||
- Australia won the toss and decided to bat
- Rick Darling, Bruce Yardley, Ian Callen and Graeme Wood (all Aus) made their Test debuts.
Annual reviews
Further reading
- Chris Harte, A History of Australian Cricket, Andre Deutsch, 1993
- Ramachandra Guha, A Corner of a Foreign Field - An Indian History of a British Sport, Picador, 2001
References
- ^ "Third Test Match, Australia v India". Wisden. ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
External sources
- India in Australia, 1977/78 at ESPNcricinfo archive
- India in Australia 1977/78 at CricketArchive (subscription required)
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Use dmy dates from April 2022
- Short description matches Wikidata
- Pages containing links to subscription-only content
- 1977 in Australian cricket
- 1977 in Indian cricket
- 1977–78 Australian cricket season
- 1978 in Australian cricket
- 1978 in Indian cricket
- Indian cricket tours of Australia
- International cricket competitions from 1975–76 to 1980
- All stub articles
- International cricket tour of Australia stubs