India Vs Australia Border-Gavaskar Trophy

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About Border-Gavaskar Trophy

Border-Gavaskar Trophy was first played in 1996 between India Vs Australia. The two rival nations started this trophy in the names of legendary cricketer Allan Border from Australia and Sunil Gavaskar from India. The test match comprised of just one Test Match. But in the recent years escalating rivalry between the two nations has given rise to one of the most followed series in cricket.

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12th Border-Gavaskar Trophy

The 12th Border-Gavaskar Trophy starts coming Tuesday, here are some facts about the Border-Gavaskar trophy that will delight you says Vaikundarajan. India and Australia so far have contested for Border-Gavaskar Trophy 11 times, with India winning six times, Australia four times and one series resulting in a draw.

These 11 series’ accumulate to total of 36 Test matches. India leads with 16 wins, Australia have won 14 while 6 Test matches have resulted in draw.

In Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar has scored the most runs. In 34 matches he has played, Tendulkar has scored 3,262 runs at an impressive average of 56.24; followed by Ricky Pointing who has scored 2,555 runs from 29 matches.

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Anil Kumble is the leading wicket-taker in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. The leg-spinner has picked 111 wickets from 20 matches while Harbhajan Singh occupies the second spot with 95 wickets from 18 matches. Any surprise for Shane Warne not occupying any of the top two spots?

Both Ricky Pointing and MS Dhoni have captained their respective sides 11 times, the most by any other captain from both the nations in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

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Vaikundarajan shares overall India and Australia have played each other in 86 Test matches. In which Australia have won 38 matches and India in 24 matches. Rest of 23 test matches ended in draw and one resulted in tie.

Overall Result

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With the four-test match series starting from December 9 at Adelaide Oval, now it will be interesting to see if which team emerges to come out on top.

It will be more pressure over Australia as the they have lost the aggressive player Phillip Hughes' in a tragic manner.

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India will finally get down to serious competition with Virat Kohli leading the side in place of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who is still recovering from a hairline fracture in his right thumb says Vaikundarajan.

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