Australian cricket team in India in 2016–17

Australian cricket team in India in 2016–17
	India	Australia
Dates	16 February – 29 March 2017
Captains	Virat Kohli	Steve Smith
Test series

The Australian cricket team are currently touring India in February and March 2017 to play four Test matches. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) confirmed the dates of the tour in October 2016.DRS is being used for the first time in the Border–Gavaskar Trophy in this series, although Hot Spot was not used. Australia played the first Test match in Pune, just one day after they played a Twenty20 International match against Sri Lanka in Adelaide.

Mitchell Marsh suffered a shoulder injury during the second Test and was ruled out of the rest of the series.

The second Test witnessed a controversy when the Australian team was accused of having taken help from the dressing room in using the Umpire Decision Review System (DRS). Australia's captain Steve Smith admitted to having looked in the direction of the dressing room for assistance when he was given out leg before wicket (lbw) off Umesh Yadav when he was on 28 by the on-field umpire Nigel Llong, who, immediately intervened to send him back and denying a referral. India's captain Virat Kohli, in his post-match interview, accused the team of having done that on at least three occasions; once as Smith was declared lbw, and twice as he batted, which he stated to having pointed out to the umpires. As the controversy broke out, Australia's Peter Handscomb tweeted admitting to have "referred" Smith to "look at the box". Picking on Smith having played down the incident terming it a "brain fade", Kohli said, "Honestly, if someone makes a mistake while batting, for me, personally, that's a brain fade... But if something is going on for three days, then that's not a brain fade, as simple as that."

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