Australian national cricket team in India in the 1986/87 season

The tour of the Australian national cricket team to India in the 1986/87 season took place from September 7 to October 19, 1986. The international cricket tour was part of the 1986/87 international cricket season and included three tests and six ODIs . India won the ODI Series 3–2, while the Test Series 0–0 ended in a draw.

prehistory

It was the first tour of the season for both teams. The last meeting of the two teams took place in the 1985/86 season in Australia .

Stages

The following stages have been designated as the venue for the tour.

Ahmedabad Delhi Hyderabad (LBS) Jaipur Madras Mumbai (WS) Rajkot Srinagar

Tour venues

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Sardar Patel Stadium	Ahmedabad	54,000	5. ODI
Feroz Shah Kotla	Delhi	48,000	2. test; 4. ODI
Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium	Hyderabad	25,000	3. ODI
Sawai Mansingh Stadium	Jaipur	23,185	1. ODI
MA Chidambaram Stadium	Madras	46,000	1st test
Wankhede Stadium	Bombay	33,000	3rd test
Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium	Rajkot	28,000	6. ODI
Sher-i-Kashmir Stadium	Srinagar		2. ODI

Squad lists

The following squads were named by the teams.

test		ODI
India	Australia	India	Australia
Mohinder Amarnath Mohammad Azharuddin Sunil Gavaskar Kapil Dev Nilesh Kulkarni Kiran More Chandrakant Pandit Chetan Sharma Ravi Shastri Maninder Singh Kris Srikkanth Dilip Vengsarkar Jai Yadav	David Boon Allan Border Ray Bright Dave Gilbert Dean Jones Geoff Marsh Greg Matthews Craig McDermott Bruce Reid Greg Ritchie Steve Waugh Tim Zoehrer	Mohammad Azharuddin Roger Binny Sunil Gavaskar Rajinder Singh Ghai Kapil Dev Raman Lamba Madan Lal Chandrakant Pandit Chetan Sharma Gopal Sharma Ravi Shastri Maninder Singh RP Singh Kris Srikkanth Dilip Vengsarkar	David Boon Allan Border Simon Davis Greg Dyer Dave Gilbert Dean Jones Geoff Marsh Greg Matthews Craig McDermott Bruce Reid Greg Ritchie Steve Waugh Tim Zoehrer

One-day internationals

First ODI in Jaipur

September 7th scorecard	Jaipur	Australia 250-3 (47/47)	-	India 251-3 (41/47)
		India wins with 7 wickets

Second ODI in Srinagar

September 9 scorecard	Srinagar	India 222-8 (47/47)	-	Australia 226-7 (46/47)
		Australia wins with 3 wickets

Third ODI in Hyderabad

September 24th scorecard	Hyderabad	Australia 242-6 (47/47)	-	India 41-1 (10.4 / 47)
		No result

Fourth ODI in Delhi

October 2nd scorecard	Delhi	Australia 238-6 (45/45)	-	India 242-7 (43.3 / 45)
		India wins with 3 wickets

Fifth ODI in Ahmedabad

October 5th scorecard	Ahmedabad	India 193 (47.4)	-	Australia 141 (43.3)
		India wins with 52 runs

Sixth ODI in Rajkot

October 7th scorecard	Rajkot	India 260-6 (48/48)	-	Australia 263-3 (46.3 / 48)
		Australia wins with 7 wickets

Testing

First test in Madras

September 18-22 Scorecard	Madras	Australia 574 (170.5) & 170-5d (49)	-	India 397 (94.2) & 347 (86.5)
		draw

This was the second test ever that ended in a draw. The only other draw came in the first test of the West Indies Tour in Australia in the 1960/61 season . Fifteen years later, to commemorate the victims of the Gujarat earthquake, a benefit game was played with most of the participants in this test at the same location.

Second test in Delhi

September 26th - 30th scorecard	Delhi	Australia 207-3d (75.4)	-	India 107-3 (26)
		draw

Third test in Bombay

October 15-19 Scorecard	Bombay	Australia 345 (147.4) & 216-2 (88)	-	India 517-5d (170)
		draw

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sankhya Krishnan: Fifteen years later, here comes the rematch ( English ) Cricinfo. March 16, 2001. Retrieved May 16, 2019.