Border–Gavaskar Trophy
The Border-Gavaskar Trophy
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| Administrator | Cricket Australia and BCCI |
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| Format | Test |
| First tournament | 1996 |
| Last tournament | 2016-17 |
| Next tournament | 2018-19 |
| Tournament format | series |
| Number of teams | 2 |
| Current trophy holder |
 India (7th title) |
| Most successful |
India (7 titles) |
| Most runs |
Sachin Tendulkar (2,380) |
| Most wickets |
Anil Kumble (111) |
 Australia tour of India in 2016–17
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The Border–Gavaskar Trophy is a Test cricket series, played between India and Australia. It has witnessed some of the most competitive Test series played in recent years, with a number of results being a narrow win for one of the sides or a closely fought draw. It is currently played via the International Cricket Council's future tours program, with varying lengths of time between matches. If the series is drawn, then the country holding the trophy retains it. The series is named after Australia's Allan Border and India's Sunil Gavaskar, who both scored over 10,000 Test runs in their career and captained their respective teams and were the original world record holders for most runs scored in Test match cricket.
The first Border–Gavaskar Trophy series was played in India the 1996–97 season and was won by the hosts 1–0. Australia won the trophy for the first time in the 1999–00 season at home where they defeated India 3–0. Since then, the trophy has alternated between both the teams. Australia's failure to win the Border–Gavaskar Trophy in India led to Steve Waugh dubbing the Indian tour as the "Final Frontier" for the Australian team. In 2004–05, Australia defeated India 2–1 in India. Australia's usual captain, Ricky Ponting, did not play in the winning matches due to injury and Adam Gilchrist instead captained the winning sides. In the 2008–09 edition, India defeated Australia 2–0 in a four match series in India to regain the trophy. In 2010 India retained the trophy by winning the two match series 2–0. Australia won the 2011–12 series 4–0, and regained the trophy for the first time since 2007–08. India returned the favour in the 2013 series by completing a 4–0 "whitewash" of Australia to regain the trophy, before losing it in the 2014–15 series with a 2–0 defeat. India then won the 2017 series 2-1 and regained the trophy.
Before the Border–Gavaskar Trophy, India and Australia had played each other 50 times in Tests in a 49-year period from 1947 to 1996. Australia was the first country India toured soon after its Independence. However, during the period, the tours between both the countries were not fixed like The Ashes, with both countries often touring each other after more than 10–15 years. Out of these 50 Tests Australia had won 24 times, India had won 8 times, 1 Test was tied and the remaining 17 Tests were drawn. The following were all regular, not Border-Gavaskar, Tests between the two countries, before the series between the two countries were named after Border and Gavaskar
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