Indian national cricket team in Australia in the 1980/81 season

The tour of the Indian national cricket team to Australia in the 1980/81 season took place from January 28 to February 11, 1981. The international cricket tour was part of the 1980/81 international cricket season and included three tests . The series ended 1-1 in a draw.

prehistory

Both teams previously played a three-nation tournament with New Zealand . The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in the 1979/80 season in India .

Stages

Adelaide Melbourne Sydney

Tour venues

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

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Adelaide oval	Adelaide	53,583	2nd test
Melbourne Cricket Ground	Melbourne	100.024	3rd test
Sydney Cricket Ground	Sydney	48,000	1st test

Squad lists

The roster lists were announced before the tour.

test
Australia	India
Terry Alderman Allan Border Greg Chappell John Dyson Merv Hughes Bruce Laird Dennis Lillee Geoff Marsh Len Pascoe Jeff Thomson Graeme Wood	Roger Binny Rajesh Chauhan Kapil Dev Dilip Doshi Sunil Gavaskar Karsan Ghavri Syed Kirmani Sandeep Patil Yashpal Sharma Dilip Vengsarkar Sadanand Viswanath Shivlal Yadav

Testing

First test in Sydney

January 2-4 scorecard	Sydney	India 201 (53.2) & 201 (62)	-	Australia 406 (109.1)
		Australia wins with one innings and 4 runs

Second test in Adelaide

January 23-27 Scorecard	Adelaide	Australia 528 (149.9) & 221-7d (90)	-	India 419 (137.4) & 135-8 (75)
		draw

Third test in Melbourne

February 7-11 scorecard	Melbourne	India 237 (84) & 324 (109.1)	-	Australia 419 (156.3) & 83 (48.4)
		India wins with 59 runs

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo