Indian national cricket team in Australia in 2007-08

The tour of the Indian national cricket team to Australia in the 2007/08 season took place from December 26 to February 1, 2008. The international cricket tour was part of the 2007-08 international cricket season and included four tests and a twenty20 . Australia won the Test Series 2–1 and the Twenty20 1–0.

prehistory

Australia previously played a tour against New Zealand , India against Pakistan . The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in the 2007 season in India .

Stages

Adelaide Melbourne Perth Sydney

Tour venues

The following stages were planned as venues for the tour and announced on April 19, 2007.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Adelaide oval	Adelaide	53,583	4th test
Melbourne Cricket Ground	Melbourne	100.024	1st test; 1. T20
WACA Ground	Perth	20,000	3rd test
Sydney Cricket Ground	Sydney	48,000	2nd test

Squad lists

Australia named their test squad on December 18, 2007

test		Twenty20
Australia	India	Australia	India
Ricky Ponting ( K ) Adam Gilchrist ( K & wk ) Stuart Clark Michael Clarke Matthew Hayden Brad Hogg Michael Hussey Phil Jaques Mitchell Johnson Brett Lee Chris Rogers Andrew Symonds Shaun Tait	Anil Kumble ( K ) MS Dhoni ( wk ) Rahul Dravid Sourav Ganguly Harbhajan Singh Wasim Jaffer Dinesh Karthik ( wk ) Zaheer Khan VVS Laxman Pankaj Singh Irfan Pathan Virender Sehwag Ishant Sharma RP Singh Vikram Singh Sachin Tendulkar Yuvraj Singh	Ricky Ponting ( K ) Michael Clarke ( UK ) Nathan Bracken Adam Gilchrist ( wk ) Ben Hilfenhaus Brad Hodge James Hopes David Hussey Michael Hussey Brett Lee Ashley Noffke Andrew Symonds Adam Voges	MS Dhoni ( K & wk ) Piyush Chawla Gautam Gambhir Harbhajan Singh Dinesh Karthik Praveen Kumar Munaf Patel Irfan Pathan Suresh Raina Virender Sehwag Ishant Sharma Rohit Sharma RP Singh Sreesanth Sachin Tendulkar Manoj Tiwary Robin Uthappa Yuvraj Singh

Tour matches

December 20-22 Scorecard	Melbourne	Indians 133-4 (48)	-	Victoria
		draw

January 10th - 12th scorecard	Canberra	ACT Invitational XI 325-9d (84) & 281-4d (58)	-	Indians 292-8d (93) & 60-3 (17)
		draw

Testing

First test in Melbourne

December 26-29 Scorecard	Melbourne	Australia 343 (92.4) & 351-7d (88)	-	India 196 (71.5) & 161 (74)
		Australia wins with 337 runs

Second test in Sydney

January 2-6 scorecard	Sydney	Australia 463 (112.3) & 401-7d (107)	-	India 532 (138.2) & 210 (70.5)
		Australia wins with 122 runs

The Indian player Harbhajan Singh was punished with a suspension of three test games because of a racist comment to the Australian player Andrew Symonds who was reported by the umpire Steve Bucknor . The Indian federation lodged a complaint against the decision and the umpire and obtained that Bucknor was not scheduled for the next test by the International Cricket Council . Furthermore, three weeks after the incident, the ban was lifted as unfounded.

Third test in Perth

January 16-19 Scorecard	Perth	India 330 (98.2) & 294 (80.4)	-	Australia 212 (50) & 340 (86.5)
		India wins with 72 runs

Fourth test in Adelaide

January 24-28 Scorecard	Adelaide	India 536 (152.5) ​​& 269-9d (90)	-	Australia 563 (181)
		draw

Twenty20 International in Melbourne

February 1st scorecard	Melbourne	India 74 (17.3)	-	Australia 75-1 (11.2)
		Australia wins with 9 wickets

statistics

The following cricket statistics were obtained on this tour.

Testing
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Sachin Tendulkar	India	4th	8th	493	70.42	154 *	2	2
Matthew Hayden	Australia	3	5	410	82.00	124	3	0
Andrew Symonds	Australia	4th	7th	410	68.33	162 *	1	2
VVS Laxman	India	4th	8th	366	45.75	109	1	2
Michael Clarke	Australia	4th	7th	316	45.14	118	1	2
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Brett Lee	Australia	4th	186.5	24	22.58	5/119	1	0
Anil Kumble	India	4th	181.3	20th	34.45	5/84	1	0
Mitchell Johnson	Australia	4th	168.1	16	33.12	4/86	0	0
Stuart Clark	Australia	4th	146	14th	28.21	4/28	0	0
RP Singh	India	4th	117.5	13	39.00	4/68	0	0

Twenty20
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Michael Clarke	Australia	1	1	37		37 *	0	0
Irfan Pathan	India	1	1	26th	26.00	26th	0	0
Adam Gilchrist	Australia	1	1	25th	25.00	25th	0	0
Brad Hodge	Australia	1	1	10		10 *	0	0
MS Dhoni	India	1	1	9	9.00	9	0	0
Gautam Gambhir	India	1	1	9	9.00	9	0	0
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Nathan Bracken	Australia	1	2.3	3	3.66	3/11	0	0
Adam Voges	Australia	1	2	2	2.50	2/5	0	0
James Hopes	Australia	1	3	1	10.00	1/10	0	0
David Hussey	Australia	1	3	1	12.00	1/12	0	0
Brett Lee	Australia	1	3	1	13.00	1/13	0	0
Praveen Kumar	India	1	2	1	15.00	1/15	0	0
Ashley Noffke	Australia	1	4th	1	23.00	1/23	0	0

Player of the Series

The following players were honored as Player of the Series .

series	Player of the Series
test	Brett Lee

Player of the Match

The following players were recognized as Player of the Match .

game	Player of the Match
1st test	Matthew Hayden
2nd test	Andrew Symonds
3rd test	Irfan Pathan
4th test	Sachin Tendulkar
1. T20	Michael Clarke

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Australia alter summer schedule to satisfy India ( English ) Cricinfo. April 19, 2007. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
2. ↑ Peter English: Hogg and Tait push for Test place ( English ) Cricinfo. December 18, 2007. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
3. ↑ Siddhartha Vaidyanathan: Harbhajan hit with three-Test ban ( English ) Cricinfo. January 6, 2008. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
4. ↑ Brydon Coverdale: ICC axes Bucknor from Perth Test ( English ) Cricinfo. January 8, 2008. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
5. ↑ Harbhajan racism charge not proven - Hansen ( English ) Cricinfo. January 29, 2008. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
6. ^ Siddhartha Vaidyanathan: Insufficient evidence against Harbhajan - Hansen ( English ) Cricinfo. January 30, 2008. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
7. ↑ Records / Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 2007/08 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved July 30, 2016.
8. ↑ Records / Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 2007/08 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved July 30, 2016.
9. ↑ Records / India in Australia T20I Match, 2007/08 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved July 30, 2016.
10. ↑ Records / India in Australia T20I Match, 2007/08 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved July 30, 2016.