Since 1996, India vs Australia rivalry has produced some of the greatest cricket matches in Border-Gavaskar Trophy history. The Indian cricket team faced Australia in 50 Test matches between 1947 and 1996. After that, The Competition was renamed the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in 1996 to celebrate the record-breaking achievements of cricket legends Sunil Gavaskar of India and former Australia captain Allan Border.
Sunil Gavaskar and Allan Border were the first cricketers to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket and were the highest run-getters in the longest format of the game for quite some time.
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Border Gavaskar Trophy All Records:
- Most Series Wins – India (9 in 15)
- Most Wins – India (22 in 52)
- Most Runs – Sachin Tendulkar (3262)
- Most Wickets – Anil Kumble (111)
- Most 100s – Sachin Tendulkar (9)
- Most wins as Captain – MS Dhoni (8)
- Most 200s – R Ponting (3)
- Highest Score – Michael Clark (329*)
- Best Average – Steve Smith(72.5)
- Most Catches as a fielder – Rahul Dravid (46)
- Most 5 Wicket hauls – Anil Kumble (5)
Image – India Today
Highest Partnership :
- Clarke & Ponting – 386 at Adelaide
- Laxman & Dravid – 376 at Eden Gardens
- Best Figures – Nathon Lyon (8/50)
- Most Runs in a series – Steve Smith (769 in 2014/15)
- Most Wickets in a Series – Harbhajan Singh (32 in 2001)
- Most Player of the Series – Sachin (3)
- Most Player of the Match – Sachin (5)
- Most Runs in a single series for India – 692 by Virat Kohli, IND in AUS 2014/15 series
Image – Deccan Chronicle
These Stats are right according to 6th February.
