Indian national cricket team in Australia in the 2011-12 season

The Indian national cricket team's tour to Australia in the 2011/12 season took place from December 26, 2011 to February 3, 2012. The international cricket tour was part of the 2011/12 International Cricket Season and included four Tests and two Twenty20s . Australia won the Test Series 4-0, while the Twenty20 Series 1-1 ended in a draw.

prehistory

Australia previously played a tour against New Zealand , India against the West Indies . The last tour between the two teams took place in India in the 2009/10 season . Immediately afterwards, both teams played a three-nation tournament together with Sri Lanka .

Stages

Adelaide Melbourne Perth Sydney Sydney (ANZ)

Tour venues

The following stages were designated as the venue for the tour and were set on June 14, 2011.

city	Stadion	capacity	Games
Adelaide	Adelaide oval	53,583	4th test
Melbourne	Melbourne Cricket Ground	100.024	1st test; 2. T20
Perth	WACA Ground	20,000	3rd test
Sydney	ANZ stadium	82,500	1. T20
Sydney	Sydney Cricket Ground	48,000	2nd test

Squad lists

India named its Test squad on November 26, 2011 and its limited overs squad on January 15, 2012. Australia named its Test squad on December 24, 2011 and its Twenty20 squad on January 23, 2012.

test		Twenty20
Australia	India	Australia	India
Michael Clarke ( K ) Brad Haddin ( VK & wk ) Dan Christian Ed Cowan Ben Hilfenhaus Michael Hussey Nathan Lyon Shaun Marsh James Pattinson Ricky Ponting Peter Siddle Mitchell Starc David Warner Ryan Harris Mitchell Starc	Mahendra Singh Dhoni ( K & wk ) Virender Sehwag ( UK ) Ravichandran Ashwin Rahul Dravid Gautam Gambhir Zaheer Khan Virat Kohli Vinay Kumar VVS Laxman Abhimanyu Mithun Pragyan Ojha Ajinkya Rahane Wriddhiman Saha ( wk ) Ishant Sharma Rohit Sharma Sachin Tendulkar Umesh Yadav	George Bailey ( K ) David Warner ( UK ) Travis Birt Daniel Christian Xavier Doherty James Faulkner Aaron Finch Brad Hogg David Hussey Brett Lee Clint McKay Mitchell Marsh Shaun Marsh Matthew Wade ( wk )	Mahendra Singh Dhoni ( K & wk ) Virender Sehwag ( UK ) Ravichandran Ashwin Gautam Gambhir Ravindra Jadeja Zaheer Khan Virat Kohli Praveen Kumar Vinay Kumar Parthiv Patel ( wk ) Irfan Pathan Suresh Raina Rahul Sharma Rohit Sharma Sachin Tendulkar Manoj Tiwary Umesh Yadav

Tour match

December 15-16 Scorecard	Canberra	Cricket Australia Chairman's XI 398-6d (86)	-	Indians 320-6 (83.1)
		draw

December 19-21 Scorecard	Canberra	Indians 269 ​​(79.1) & 90-2d (30)	-	Cricket Australia Chairman's XI 215-7d (59) & 100-0 (30)
		draw

Testing

First test in Melbourne

December 26th - 30th scorecard	Melbourne	Australia 333 (110) & 240 (76.3)	-	India 282 (94.1) & 169 (47.5)
		Australia wins with 122 runs

Second test in Sydney

January 3-7 Scorecard	Sydney (SCG)	India 191 (59.3) & 400 (110.5)	-	Australia 659-4d (163)
		Australia wins with one innings and 68 runs

Indian player Virat Kohli was fined for making abusive gestures towards the audience.

Third test in Perth

January 13-17 Scorecard	Perth	India 161 (60.2) & 171 (63.2)	-	Australia 369 (76.2)
		Australia wins with one innings and 37 runs

The Indian team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was banned for the fourth test because the game was too slow. He and the team were also fined.

Fourth test in Adelaide

January 24-28 Scorecard	Adelaide	Australia 604-7d (157) & 167-5d (46)	-	India 272 (95.1) & 201 (67.4)
		Australia wins with 298 runs

Twenty20 Internationals

First Twenty20 in Sydney

February 1st scorecard	Sydney (ANZ)	Australia 171-4 (20)	-	India 140-6 (20)
		Australia wins with 31 runs

Second Twenty20 in Melbourne

February 3rd scorecard	Melbourne	Australia 131 (19.4)	-	India 135-2 (19.4)
		India wins with 8 wickets

statistics

The following cricket statistics were obtained on this tour.

Testing
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Michael Clarke	Australia	4th	6th	626	125.20	329 *	2	0
Ricky Ponting	Australia	4th	6th	544	108.80	221	2	3
Virat Kohli	India	4th	8th	300	37.50	116	1	1
Michael Hussey	Australia	4th	6th	293	58.60	150 *	1	1
Sachin Tendulkar	India	4th	8th	287	35.87	80	0	2
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Ben Hilfenhaus	Australia	4th	168	27	17.22	5/75	2	0
Peter Siddle	Australia	4th	124	23	18.65	5/49	1	0
Zaheer Khan	India	4th	147	15th	31.80	4/77	0	0
Umesh Yadav	India	4th	118	14th	39.35	5/93	1	0
James Pattinson	Australia	2	75	11	23.36	4/43	0	0

Twenty20s
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Matthew Wade	Australia	2	2	104	52.00	72	0	1
Gautam Gambhir	India	2	2	76	76.00	56 *	0	1
MS Dhoni	India	2	2	69		48 *	0	0
David Hussey	Australia	2	2	66	33.00	42	0	0
Virat Kohli	India	2	2	53	26.50	31	0	0
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Rohit Sharma	India	2	7.2	3	18.66	2/29	0	0
David Hussey	Australia	2	4th	2	6.00	2/4	0	0
Daniel Christian	Australia	1	4th	2	17.50	2/35	0	0
Brad Hogg	Australia	2	7th	2	20.00	1/19	0	0
Vinay Kumar	India	2	8th	2	26.50	1/25	0	0
Praveen Kumar	India	2	6th	2	27.50	2/21	0	0

Player of the Series

The following players were honored as Player of the Series .

series	Player of the Series
test	Michael Clarke

Player of the Match

The following players were recognized as Player of the Match .

game	Player of the Match
1st test	James Pattinson
2nd test	Michael Clarke
3rd test	David Warner
4th test	Peter Siddle
1. T20	Matthew Wade
2. T20	Ravindra Jadeja

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tri-series returns to Australia ( English ) Cricinfo. June 14, 2011. Retrieved May 29, 2016.
2. ↑ Harbhajan left out of Australia tour ( English ) Cricinfo. November 26, 2011. Retrieved May 29, 2016.
3. ↑ Tendulkar back in ODI squad ( English ) Cricinfo. January 15, 2012. Retrieved May 29, 2016.
4. ↑ Brydon Coverdale: Hilfenhaus to play, Christian left out ( English ) Cricinfo. December 24, 2011. Retrieved May 29, 2016.
5. ↑ Brydon Coverdale: Bailey named Australia's T20 captain, Hogg recalled ( English ) Cricinfo. January 23, 2012. Retrieved May 29, 2016.
6. ↑ Sidharth Monga: Kohli fined over gesture to crowd ( English ) Cricinfo. January 5, 2012. Retrieved May 29, 2016.
7. ↑ Dhoni banned from Adelaide Test for slow over-rate ( English ) Cricinfo. January 15, 2012. Retrieved May 29, 2016.
8. ↑ Records / Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 2011/12 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
9. ↑ Records / Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 2011/12 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
10. ↑ Records / India in Australia T20I Series, 2011/12 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
11. ↑ Records / India in Australia T20I Series, 2011/12 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved June 10, 2016.