Indian cricket team in Australia in 1985–86

Date

13 December 1985 – 9 February 1986

Location

Result

3-match series drawn 0–0

Teams
Australia	India
Captains
Allan Border	Kapil Dev
Most runs
David Boon (323)	Sunil Gavaskar (356)
Most wickets
Bruce Reid (11)	Shivlal Yadav (15)

← 1980–81 Series

1991-92 Series →

The Indian national cricket team toured Australia in the 1985–86 season. They played 3 Test matches. The Test series was drawn 0-0. Kapil Dev and Kris Srikkanth were awarded as joint players of the series.

After the Test series India also competed in a tri nation ODI tournament Archived 30 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine with Australia and New Zealand they won 5 of their 10-round robin matches. In the best of three final with Australia they lost 2–0.

One of cricket's most respected and important figures, Steve Waugh, made his debut on the Boxing Day test at Melbourne in second test of the series.

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Tour matches

Limited overs: Australian Capital Territory vs Indians

27 November
Scorecard

Australian Capital Territory	v	Indians

No result
Manuka Oval, Canberra

No toss.
12 players per side (11 batting, 11 fielding).

Four-day: South Australia vs Indians

29 November–2 December
Scorecard

South Australia	v	Indians
135 (60.3 overs) Peter Sleep 22 (64) Kapil Dev 4/24 (15 overs)		245 (87.2 overs) Ashok Malhotra 67 (140) Sam Parkinson 6/56 (21.2 overs)
8/438d (138 overs) Robert Zadow 120 (267) Laxman Sivaramakrishnan 3/124 (27 overs)		6/329 (89 overs) Kapil Dev 88 (117) Tim May 2/70 (18 overs)

Indians won by 4 wickets
Adelaide Oval, Adelaide
Umpires: MP O'Brien (Aus) and Max O'Connell (Aus)

South Australia won the toss and decided to bat.
12 players per side (11 batting, 11 fielding).

Limited overs: Victoria Country vs Indians

4 December
Scorecard

Victoria Country 116 (38 overs)	v	Indians 6/175 (50 overs)
G. Salmon 21 Roger Binny 3/17 (6 overs)		Dilip Vengsarkar 64* P. Newland 2/41 (11 overs)

Indians won by 6 wickets
Reid Oval, Warrnambool

Victoria Country played with 12 players, Indians with 11; both with 11 batting, 11 fielding.
Indians batted on after winning the match.

Four-day: Victoria vs Indians

6–9 December
Scorecard

Victoria	v	Indians
233 (88.1 overs) Dean Jones 83 (190) Laxman Sivaramakrishnan 3/75 (28.1 overs)		7/182 (91 overs) Mohinder Amarnath 46 (190) Merv Hughes 3/42 (26 overs)

Match drawn
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne
Umpires: DW Holt (Aus) and Len King (Aus)

Victoria won the toss and decided to bat.
Denis Hickey and Geoff Parker (Victoria) made their first-class debuts.
Play was stopped before tea on the fourth day.

Four-day: Tasmania vs Indians

20–23 December
Scorecard

Tasmania	v	Indians

No result
TCA Ground, Hobart

No toss.

Test Series

First Test

13–17 December 1985
Scorecard

Australia	v	India
381 (149 overs) Greg Ritchie 128 (321) Kapil Dev 8/106 (38 overs)		520 (202 overs) Sunil Gavaskar 166* (416) Bruce Reid 4/113 (53 overs)
0/17 (8 overs) David Boon 11* (28) Ravi Shastri 0/0 (1 over)

Match drawn
Adelaide Oval, Adelaide
Umpires: Tony Crafter (Aus) and Steve Randell (Aus)
Player of the match: Kapil Dev (Ind)

Australia won the toss and decided to bat
Geoff Marsh, Bruce Reid and Merv Hughes (all Aus) made their Test debut.

Second Test

26–30 December 1985
Scorecard

Australia	v	India
262 (103.5 overs) Greg Matthews 100* (152) Ravi Shastri 4/87 (37 overs)		445 (148.2 overs) K Srikkanth 86 (89) Bruce Reid 4/100 (38.2 overs)
308 (123.5 overs) Allan Border 163 (358) Ravi Shastri 4/92 (47 overs)		2/59 (25 overs) K Srikkanth 38 (61) Bruce Reid 2/23 (8 overs)

Match drawn
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne
Umpires: Dick French (Aus) and Ray Isherwood (Aus)
Player of the match: Allan Border (Aus)

India won the toss and decided to field.

Third Test

2–6 January 1986
Scorecard

India	v	Australia
4/600d (169 overs) Sunil Gavaskar 172 (400) Dave Gilbert 2/135 (37 overs)		396 (179.3 overs) David Boon 131 (311) Shivlal Yadav 5/99 (62.3 overs)
		6/119 (77 overs) Geoff Marsh 28 (84)

Match drawn
Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
Umpires: Peter McConnell (Aus) and Steve Randell (Aus)
Player of the match: K Srikkanth (Ind)

India won the toss and decided to bat.

External links

India in Australia Test Series, 1985/86
India in Australia 1985/86 at CricketArchive (subscription required)

References

Wisden Cricketers Almanack

International cricket tours of Australia

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Bangladesh	2003 2008
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Tournaments hosted
World Cup	1992 2015
T20 World Cup	2022
Tri-series	1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2011–12 2014–15 2017–18
Other multi-team tournaments	1985 1987

Other tours
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Multi-national	1971–72 2005–06
Nepal	2023–24
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PNG	2014–15
Scotland	2014–15
Sri Lanka	1982–83
UAE	2014–15
World Series Cricket (West Indies & World XI)	1977-78 1978-79

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