Indian cricket team in Australia in 2003–04
| Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 2003–04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Part of the Indian cricket team in Australia in 2003–04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jason Gillespie bowls to Akash Chopra, SCG, 2 January 2004
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| Date | 25 November 2003 – 8 February 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Result | Series drawn 1–1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Player of the series | Rahul Dravid | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 India
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 Australia
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| Captains | |||
| Sourav Ganguly | Steve Waugh | ||
| Most runs | |||
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Rahul Dravid (619) VVS Laxman (494) Virender Sehwag (464) |
Ricky Ponting (706) Matthew Hayden (451) Justin Langer (369) |
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| Most wickets | |||
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Anil Kumble (24) Ajit Agarkar (16) Zaheer Khan (5) |
Stuart MacGill (14) Jason Gillespie (10) Brett Lee (8) |
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India's 2003–04 tour of Australia comprised seven first-class matches, including four Tests. India also participated in an ODI tri-series with Australia and Zimbabwe. The Test series was drawn 1–1, and India retained the Border-Gavaskar Trophy because of their victory in the Trophy's previous contest. In the 2003-04 series' Adelaide Test, Rahul Dravid scored a double century, securing a famous win for India. Sachin Tendulkar scored 241* in Sydney, which up until that point in his career was his highest score in a Test match. Captain Sourav Ganguly made his first test century against Australia, a 144 in Brisbane that gave his team a lead of 86 after they were in trouble. VVS Laxman played consistently throughout this series, including during his partnership with DRavid in Adelaide. This series was also the last for Steve Waugh, who had captained Australia to a record 15 consecutive test victories and had 41 victories in 57 Tests.
The Test series was drawn 1–1 with 2 matches drawn:
Match report
Debuts: Nathan Bracken (Australia)
First day:
The pitch at the Gabba had a green top, which was acknowledged as being greener than the Gabba ever was. There was heavy cloud cover all day too. These conditions were accepted as being the Indian bowlers' only chance to quell the Australian bowlers as their bowling relied more on swing rather than pure pace. Sourav Ganguly, the Indian Captain won the toss and chose to field, but Zaheer Khan, India's opening bowler bowled a wayward first spell and then he and Ashish Nehra bowled consistently on a full-length basis, which resulted in the accumulation of runs for the Australian openers, Matthew Hayden and Justin Langer. While Hayden played aggressively, Langer played stylishly, in an almost "apologetic" manner.
The duo piled up the runs before the Indians luck changed when Akash Chopra caught Langer off Ashish Nehra's no-ball at square leg. After this, the Indian bowlers made the batsmen play and miss more frequently and Zaheer Khan produced a good spell. But it was not until the score read 73 that India separated the two Australians. Zaheer Khan took Hayden's first wicket with a flashy delivery, which Hayden edged to VVS Laxman at slips for 37 made from 52 balls.
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