Indian cricket team in Australia in 1985–86 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date | 13 December 1985 – 9 February 1986 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Result | 3-match series drawn 0–0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Teams | |||
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Australia | India | ||
Captains | |||
Allan Border | Kapil Dev | ||
Most runs | |||
David Boon (323) | Sunil Gavaskar (356) | ||
Most wickets | |||
Bruce Reid (11) | Shivlal Yadav (15) |
The Indian national cricket team toured Australia in the 1985–86 season. They played 3 Test matches. The Test series was drawn 0-0.
After the Test series India also competed in a tri nation ODI tournament 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.