Australia's national cricket team in India in the 2000/01 season

The Australian national cricket team's tour to India in the 2000/01 season took place from February 17 to April 6, 2001. The international cricket tour was part of the 2000/01 international cricket season and included three test matches and five ODIs . India won the Test Series 2–1 while Australia won the ODI Series 3–2.

prehistory

India previously played a tour in Zimbabwe , Australia a three-nation tournament . The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in the 1999/00 season in Australia .

Stages

The following stages were planned as venues for the tour.

Bengaluru Chennai Indore Kolkata Margao Mumbai (WS) Pune Visakhapatnam

Tour venues

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
M. Chinnaswamy Stadium	Bengaluru	42,000	1. ODI
MA Chidambaram Stadium	Chennai	46,000	3rd test
Holkar Stadium	Indore	30,000	3. ODI
Eden Gardens	Kolkata	82,000	2nd test
Jawarharlal Nehru Stadium	Margao	19,000	5. ODI
Wankhede Stadium	Mumbai	33,000	1st test
Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium	Pune	42,000	2. ODI
ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium	Visakhapatnam	30,000	4. ODI

Squad

Australia named its test roster on February 8, 2001 and its ODI roster on March 10, 2001. India named its test roster on February 20 and ODI roster on March 18, 2001.

test		ODI
India	Australia	India	Australia
Sourav Ganguly ( K ) Ajit Agarkar Sairaj Bahutule Shiv Sunder That Sameer Dighe Rahul Dravid Zaheer Khan Nilesh Kulkarni VVS Laxman Nayan Mongia ( wk ) Venkatesh Prasad Venkatapathy Raju Sadagoppan Ramesh Rahul Sanghvi Harbhajan Singh Javagal Srinath Sachin Tendulkar	Steve Waugh ( K ) Damien Fleming Adam Gilchrist ( wk ) Jason Gillespie Matthew Hayden Michael Kasprowicz Justin Langer Glenn McGrath Colin Miller Ricky Ponting Michael Slater Shane Warne Mark Waugh	Sourav Ganguly ( K ) Ajit Agarkar Hemang Badani Vijay Dahiya ( wk ) Rahul Dravid Sunil Joshi Zaheer Khan VVS Laxman Nayan Mongia Virender Sehwag Harbhajan Singh Robin Singh Yuvraj Singh Javagal Srinath Sachin Tendulkar	Steve Waugh ( K ) Michael Bevan Nathan Bracken Damien Fleming Adam Gilchrist ( wk ) Ian Harvey Matthew Hayden Shane Lee Darren Lehmann Glenn McGrath Damien Martyn Ricky Ponting Andrew Symonds Shane Warne Mark Waugh

Tour matches

February 17-19 scorecard	Nagpur	Australians 291 (69.1) & 365-9d (95.1)	-	India A 368 (97.4)
		draw

February 22nd - 24th scorecard	Mumbai	Mumbai 328-9d (94) & 191-8d (67.3)	-	Australians 203 (64.3) & 141-6 (55)
		draw

March 6-8 Scorecard	Delhi	Australians 451 (100) & 461-7 (93)	-	Indian Board President's XI 221 (66.4)
		draw

The Australian inaugural batsman Michael Slater had received a warning from the referee based on comments made to the referee and the Indian player Rahul Dravid . When he shared the comments in an interview on Australian radio, the referee imposed a fine and a game ban.

March 17th Scorecard	Chennai	India Veterans XI 222-7 (40/40)	-	Australia Veterans XI 223-3 (29.1 / 40)
		Australia Veterans XI wins with 7 wickets

March 23 scorecard	Chennai	India XI 338-8 (40/40)	-	Australians 184 (27.1 / 40)
		India XI wins with 154 runs

Test matches

First test in Mumbai (WS)

February 27th - March 1st scorecard	Mumbai	India 176 (71.3) & 219 (94.1)	-	Australia 349 (73.2) & 47-0 (7)
		Australia wins with 10 wickets

Second test in Kolkata

March 11-15 Scorecard	Kolkata	Australia 445 (131.5) & 212 (68.3)	-	India 171 (58.1) & 657-7d (178) (f / o)
		India wins with 171 runs

Third test in Chennai

March 18-22 Scorecard	Chennai	Australia 391 (115.2) & 264 (97.5)	-	India 501 (165) & 155-8 (41.1)
		India wins with 2 wickets

One-day internationals

First ODI in Bengaluru

March 25 scorecard	Bengaluru	India 315 (49.5)	-	Australia 255 (43.3)
		India wins with 60 runs

Second ODi in Pune

March 28 scorecard	Pune	India 248-9 (50)	-	Australia 249-2 (45.1)
		Australia wins with 8 wickets

Third ODI in Indore

March 31 scorecard	Indore	India 299-8 (50)	-	Australia 181 (35.5)
		India wins with 118 runs

Fourth ODI in Visakhapatnam

April 3 scorecard	Visakhapatnam	Australia 338-4 (50)	-	India 245 (45)
		Australia wins with 93 runs

Fifth ODI in Margao

April 6th scorecard	Margao	India 265-6 (50)	-	Australia 269-6 (48)
		Australia wins with 4 wickets

statistics

The following cricket statistics were obtained on this tour.

Testing
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Matthew Hayden	Australia	3	6th	549	109.80	203	2	2
VVS Laxman	India	3	6th	503	83.83	281	1	3
Rahul Dravid	India	3	6th	338	56.33	180	1	1
Sachin Tendulkar	India	3	6th	304	50.66	126	1	2
Steve Waugh	Australia	3	5	243	48.60	110	1	0
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Harbhajan Singh	India	3	178.3	32	17.03	8/84	4th	2
Glenn McGrath	Australia	3	136.2	17th	15.35	4/18	0	0
Jason Gillespie	Australia	3	126.3	13	30.30	3/45	0	0
Shane Warne	Australia	3	152.1	10	50.50	4/47	0	0
Colin Miller	Australia	1	55	6th	33.50	3/41	0	0

ODIs
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Matthew Hayden	Australia	4th	4th	303	75.75	111	1	2
VVS Laxman	India	5	5	291	58.20	101	1	2
Sachin Tendulkar	India	5	5	280	56.00	139	1	1
Michael Bevan	Australia	5	5	218	109.00	87 *	0	1
Adam Gilchrist	Australia	5	4th	172	43.00	76	0	2
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Glenn McGrath	Australia	5	45.5	10	26.00	3/52	0	0
Javagal Srinath	India	5	43.2	9	26.55	3/49	0	0
Damien Fleming	Australia	4th	38	6th	31.33	2/34	0	0
Nathan Bracken	Australia	3	27	5	22.40	2/21	0	0
Ian Harvey	Australia	3	30th	5	33.00	2/49	0	0
Ajit Agarkar	India	4th	31	5	40.00	3/38	0	0

Player of the Series

The following players were honored as Player of the Series .

series	Player of the Series
test	Harbhajan Singh
ODI	Matthew Hayden

Player of the Match

The following players were recognized as Player of the Match .

game	Player of the Match
1st test	Adam Gilchrist
2nd test	VVS Laxman
3rd test	Harbhajan Singh Matthew Hayden
1. ODI	Virender Sehwag
2. ODI	Mark Waugh
3. ODI	Sachin Tendulkar
4. ODI	Matthew Hayden
5. ODI	Michael Bevan

Web links

• The series on espncricinfo.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kaspa earns Indian reward ( English ) Cricinfo. February 8, 2001. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
2. ↑ Australian one-day international squad for India announced ( English ) Cricinfo. March 10, 2001. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
3. ↑ Hirwani and Mongia recalled for Australia Test ( English ) Cricinfo. February 20, 2001. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
4. ↑ Dinesh Mongia, Robin Singh named in Indian ODI squad ( English ) Cricinfo. March 18, 2001. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
5. ↑ Slater fined, banned from playing second test ( English ) Cricinfo. March 9, 2001. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
6. ↑ Records / Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 2000/01 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
7. ↑ Records / Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 2000/01 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
8. ↑ Records / Australia in India ODI Series, 2000/01 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
9. ↑ Records / Australia in India ODI Series, 2000/01 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved August 2, 2016.