Border Gavaskar Trophy 2023: To win the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, the battle of 4 Test matches has started between India and Australia. India has conquered the first fort of this war, but the remaining 3 forts are yet to be conquered. From February 17, both these teams will land in Delhi to play the second Test match of this series. India handed Australia a humiliating defeat of an innings and 132 runs in Nagpur. Now Australia claims that it will settle its score by defeating India in Delhi. However, it is a different matter that India has not lost a single match to Australia in Delhi in the last 63 years. Baharal, let us give you information about some statistics of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Border-Gavaskar Trophy record
- The Border-Gavaskar Trophy series has been played between India and Australia 15 times so far.
- India has won the series 9 times.
- Australia has captured the trophy 5 times.
- The series has been drawn only once.
- For this series, a total of 53 Test matches have been played between the two teams so far.
- India has won 23 matches.
- Australia has won 19 matches.
- 11 matches have been drawn.
Batting record in Border-Gavaskar Trophy
- India has scored the most runs in an innings for this trophy so far. In 2004, India scored 705 runs at the loss of 7 wickets at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
- The record of scoring the lowest runs in an innings for this trophy is also in the name of India. India was all out for just 36 runs in the Adelaide match in December 2020.
- Sachin Tendulkar has scored the most runs for this trophy. Sachin scored 3,262 runs in 65 innings against Australia.
- So far, a total of 104 centuries have been scored in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, out of which Sachin Tendulkar (9) has the maximum number of centuries.
- A total of 16 double centuries have been scored in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy so far, out of which Ricky Ponting (3) has the most number of double centuries.
- The biggest individual score so far in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy is in the name of Australia’s Michael Clarke. He scored an unbeaten 329 in 486 balls in the match played in Sydney during the 2012 Test series.
Record of the biggest partnership in Border-Gavaskar Trophy
- The biggest partnership in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy was between Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke. During the 2012 series, both of them shared a partnership of 386 runs in Adelaide.
- Second in this list comes the name of VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid’s historic partnership, which they played in the 2002 Kolkata Test match. In that innings, both of them shared a 376-run partnership for the 5th wicket.
Bowling record in Border-Gavaskar Trophy
- Anil Kumble has the most wickets in the history of Border-Gavaskar series. Kumble took 111 wickets in 38 innings.
- The record of taking the most 5 wickets in an innings is also in the name of Anil Kumble (10).
- The record of taking maximum 10 wickets in a match is in the name of Harbhajan Singh (3).
- The best bowling in an innings has been done by Nathan Lyon of Australia. He took 8 wickets for 50 runs in an innings of the 2017 Bangalore match.
- The record of best bowling in a match is in the name of Harbhajan Singh. He took 15 wickets for 217 runs in the 2001 Chennai Test match.