India vs Australia ODI Head-to-Head: Record & Results

India's first one-day international against Australia was a win. Melbourne, 6 December 1980, by 66 runs. They then lost the next five, and that pattern has more or less held for forty-five years: India beat Australia often enough to make every series worth watching, and lose to them often enough that the aggregate never gets close.

Australia lead the fixture 86 wins to 59 from 155 matches, with ten abandoned and, remarkably for a sample that size, not a single tie. A gap of twenty-seven matches sounds decisive. Split by venue it stops sounding that way. In India and at neutral grounds the two sides are separated by two results across ninety-eight matches. In Australia, India have won fifteen of fifty-seven.

The fixture also holds the highest totals either side has made against the other in any format: 399 for 5 by India at Indore in September 2023, and 389 for 4 by Australia at Sydney in November 2020. Both came in the last dozen years, which is the other thing the ledger shows. Scoring in this fixture has climbed steeply since the 1980s while the balance of results has barely moved.

The full one-day ledger

Every completed and abandoned men's ODI between the two sides, to 25 October 2025.

Where played	Matches	India won	Australia won	No result	India's share of results
In India	72	33	34	5	49.3%
In Australia	57	15	40	2	27.3%
Neutral venues	26	11	12	3	47.8%
All ODIs	155	59	86	10	40.7%

The away column is the fixture. Strip out the fifty-seven matches played in Australia and the record reads 44-46 to Australia, a two-match margin over ninety-eight games, which is another way of saying the two sides are hard to separate anywhere except on Australian grounds in the Australian summer.

Twenty-six neutral matches is a high number, and it reflects two things: the triangular tournaments of the 1980s and 1990s, in which India and Australia were repeatedly thrown together in Sharjah, and the ICC events since, where they have been drawn against each other more often than any pair outside India and Pakistan. The tempers and the tours behind all this are covered on the India-Australia rivalry page. This page is the arithmetic underneath it.

Decade by decade

Decade	Matches	India won	Australia won	No result
1980s	31	12	16	3
1990s	26	10	16	0
2000s	46	12	29	5
2010s	34	16	16	2
2020s (to Oct 2025)	18	9	9	0

One decade carries most of the deficit. Australia's margin in the 2000s was seventeen matches; their overall lead is twenty-seven. That decade covered the Ricky Ponting sides that won three consecutive World Cups, and India met them constantly, forty-six ODIs in ten years, more than in any other decade.

What happened afterwards is the more useful number for anyone trying to work out who is favourite next week. Across the 2010s and the 2020s, fifty-two matches, the record is 25-25. Since Australia's period of clear superiority ended, this has been a level fixture, decided series by series rather than by any structural advantage. The broader change in how India played the fifty-over game across those two decades is traced in India's ODI history.

The biggest totals either side has made

Total	Team	Overs	Result	Venue	Date
399/5	India	50	won	Indore	24 Sep 2023
389/4	Australia	50	won	Sydney	29 Nov 2020
383/6	India	50	won	Bengaluru	2 Nov 2013
374/6	Australia	50	won	Sydney	27 Nov 2020
362/1	India	43.3	won	Jaipur	16 Oct 2013
359/6	Australia	47.5	won	Mohali	10 Mar 2019
359/5	Australia	50	lost	Jaipur	16 Oct 2013
359/5	Australia	50	won	Sydney	8 Feb 2004
359/2	Australia	50	won	Johannesburg	23 Mar 2003
358/9	India	50	lost	Mohali	10 Mar 2019

Two matches appear twice in that list, and they are the two most extraordinary games the fixture has produced. At Jaipur in October 2013 Australia made 359 for 5 and lost by nine wickets with six and a half overs unused, Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan taking the chase apart. At Mohali in March 2019 India made 358 for 9 and lost, Australia getting there with thirteen balls to spare. In both cases a total that would have won almost any other one-day international was not enough.

Note also how the venues cluster. Six of the ten were made at Indian grounds, and the Sydney pair in November 2020 came on a surface that behaved like one. The fixture's low-scoring grounds, Perth and the Wanderers and Sharjah in its later years, do not appear at all. India's own list of record fifty-over scores, against all opposition, sits on the highest ODI team totals page.

When it has gone wrong

The six lowest all-out totals in the fixture, either side.

Total	Team	Overs	Venue	Date
63	India	25.5	Sydney	8 Jan 1981
100	India	36.3	Sydney	14 Jan 2000
101	Australia	37.5	Perth	8 Dec 1991
117	India	26.0	Visakhapatnam	19 Mar 2023
125	India	41.4	Centurion	15 Feb 2003
129	Australia	38.2	Chelmsford	20 Jun 1983

Four of the six are India's, and 63 at Sydney in January 1981 remains one of the lowest totals India have made in any one-day international anywhere. Two of the four Indian collapses were followed by chases so trivial that Australia lost almost nothing: 121 without loss in eleven overs at Visakhapatnam, 128 for 1 at Centurion in the 2003 World Cup.

The Australian entries are worth separating. Chelmsford in June 1983 was the World Cup group match India won by 118 runs, three weeks before Lord's, and it is the reason 1983 is not usually described as a fluke. Perth in December 1991 was Australia bowled out for 101 on their own fastest pitch, which even the Australian sides of that era managed only rarely. The wider list of India's own batting failures in the format is on the lowest ODI team totals page.

Who has scored the runs

India's leading run scorers against Australia in ODIs.

Batter	Span	Mat	Runs	HS	Ave	SR	100s
Sachin Tendulkar	1991-2012	71	3,077	175	44.59	84.71	9
Rohit Sharma	2007-2025	49	2,609	209	59.29	95.11	9
Virat Kohli	2009-2025	53	2,525	123	53.72	93.20	8
MS Dhoni	2006-2019	55	1,660	139*	44.86	80.89	2
Shikhar Dhawan	2010-2020	30	1,265	143	45.17	97.68	4
Mohammad Azharuddin	1985-1999	43	990	94	28.28	70.71	0
Yuvraj Singh	2000-2013	41	981	139	27.25	85.15	2
Rahul Dravid	1996-2009	40	928	80	25.77	67.78	0

Australia's leading run scorers against India.

Batter	Span	Mat	Runs	HS	Ave	SR	100s
Ricky Ponting	1995-2012	59	2,164	140*	40.07	81.41	6
Adam Gilchrist	1998-2008	46	1,622	111	36.86	99.26	1
Aaron Finch	2013-2020	32	1,460	124	48.66	85.93	4
Matthew Hayden	1994-2008	28	1,450	126	53.70	86.05	3
Steve Smith	2010-2025	30	1,383	149	53.19	98.78	5
David Warner	2012-2023	27	1,222	128*	48.88	98.86	3

Only one Australian has passed two thousand runs in the fixture and three Indians have. That is partly volume, because India's top order has faced Australia more often than any Australian has faced India, but not only volume. Ponting's 40.07 against India sits below his career average, and Australia's most productive batters in the fixture are the ones who came later, Smith and Warner, at strike rates near a hundred.

The Tendulkar and Rohit comparison is the one most often argued about. Tendulkar has the aggregate and the longer span; Rohit has scored his runs at fifteen more per innings and hit the fixture's highest individual score, 209 at Bengaluru in November 2013. Azharuddin's row is a reminder of what a good one-day average looked like in the 1990s: 990 runs at 28.28 was respectable service against the Australian attacks of that decade. The generational shift in how India's middle order approached these games is set out on the great middle-order batters page.

Who has taken the wickets

India's leading wicket takers against Australia in ODIs.

Bowler	Span	Mat	Wkts	Best	Ave	Econ
Kapil Dev	1980-1994	41	45	5/43	27.68	3.67
Mohammed Shami	2013-2025	26	42	5/51	30.85	6.00
Ravindra Jadeja	2009-2025	45	39	3/28	51.92	5.23
Ajit Agarkar	1998-2006	21	36	6/42	28.41	5.84
Javagal Srinath	1991-2003	29	33	4/30	36.78	4.89
Harbhajan Singh	1998-2011	35	32	3/37	46.43	4.63
Kuldeep Yadav	2017-2025	24	32	3/54	40.06	5.93
Anil Kumble	1994-2004	29	31	3/42	40.29	4.89

Australia's leading wicket takers against India.

Bowler	Span	Mat	Wkts	Best	Ave	Econ
Brett Lee	2000-2012	32	55	5/27	21.00	4.49
Mitchell Johnson	2006-2015	27	43	5/26	26.06	5.08
Steve Waugh	1986-2001	53	43	4/40	29.46	4.92
Adam Zampa	2017-2025	26	41	4/45	32.75	5.61
Glenn McGrath	1994-2006	25	34	4/8	26.76	4.41
Mitchell Starc	2010-2025	22	33	6/43	33.18	5.93

Brett Lee's 55 wickets at 21.00 is the outstanding bowling record in the fixture on either side, and it was compiled in the years when Australia were winning most of the matches. No Indian bowler comes close to that average over a comparable sample. Kapil Dev's 45 at 27.68 leads India, and Agarkar's 36 at 28.41 in only twenty-one matches is the most efficient Indian return of any size.

The two wrist spinners in the modern lists, Adam Zampa and Kuldeep Yadav, both concede more than five and a half an over, which says something about how these matches are now played. Middle-over spin is used to take wickets at a price both sides have decided is acceptable, and neither captain has shown much interest in the containment role that Harbhajan Singh filled at 4.63. How India's own quick bowling stock changed across the same period is covered in the guide to India's fast bowling evolution.

The last ten meetings

Most recent first.

Date	Venue	Result	Margin	Context
25 Oct 2025	Sydney	India won	9 wickets	bilateral series
23 Oct 2025	Adelaide	Australia won	2 wickets	bilateral series
19 Oct 2025	Perth	Australia won	7 wickets	bilateral series
4 Mar 2025	Dubai	India won	4 wickets	Champions Trophy semi-final
19 Nov 2023	Ahmedabad	Australia won	6 wickets	World Cup final
8 Oct 2023	Chennai	India won	6 wickets	World Cup group stage
27 Sep 2023	Rajkot	Australia won	66 runs	bilateral series
24 Sep 2023	Indore	India won	99 runs	bilateral series
22 Sep 2023	Mohali	India won	5 wickets	bilateral series
22 Mar 2023	Chennai	Australia won	21 runs	bilateral series

Five each, which is a fair summary of the last three years. The three bilateral series in that window went Australia 2-1 in India in March 2023, India 2-1 in India in September 2023, and Australia 2-1 in Australia in October 2025. Nobody has won a series between the two sides by more than a single match since 2020.

What happens at ICC events

India and Australia have met fourteen times at the fifty-over World Cup, from Nottingham in June 1983 to Ahmedabad in November 2023. Australia have won nine of those fourteen. It is the least flattering slice of the ledger for India, and it includes the 2003 final at Johannesburg and the 2023 final at Ahmedabad, both of which Australia won after India had gone through the tournament almost unbeaten.

The two most recent World Cup meetings split. India won the group match at Chennai in October 2023 after being three down inside the fourth over, then lost the final at the same tournament. Their next meeting, the Champions Trophy semi-final at Dubai in March 2025, went India's way by four wickets. The tournament-by-tournament detail is on the pages for India at the World Cup and India in the Champions Trophy.

Five things the ledger shows

Reading the tables above against each other produces a handful of conclusions that the raw win-loss line does not.

• The deficit is geographic rather than general. India are 44-46 against Australia away from Australian soil and 15-40 on it. Any projection that treats the fixture as a single 86-59 record will overstate Australia's advantage at Indore and understate it at Perth.
• One decade did most of the damage. The 2000s alone account for seventeen of Australia's twenty-seven-match lead. Remove that decade and the fixture reads 47-57 across 109 matches.
• It has been level for fifteen years. From January 2010 to October 2025, fifty-two matches, twenty-five wins each. That is the most recent trend and it contradicts the aggregate.
• Australia's bowling record in the fixture is stronger than their batting record. Lee at 21.00 and McGrath at 26.76 are the two best sustained returns on either side, while no Australian batter has reached two thousand runs. India's advantage here has always been in the top order rather than with the ball.
• In 155 matches there has not been a tie. Given how many close finishes the fixture has produced, the two-wicket margin at Adelaide in October 2025 among them, the absence of a single tied result is the strangest line in the whole record.

The corresponding records in the other two formats, where the balance is different again, are on the India versus Australia Test head-to-head and the India versus Australia T20I head-to-head. The rest of India's international and domestic record is indexed on the cricket in India hub.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page was taken from ESPNcricinfo's Statsguru, filtered to men's one-day internationals between India and Australia, and checked as of 25 October 2025, the date of the most recent completed match in the fixture, at Sydney. The venue split uses Statsguru's home, away and neutral classification, which assigns a match to the host board rather than to the ground's country in the rare cases where those differ.

The decade table is Statsguru's own grouping, reproduced without adjustment; its four columns sum to the overall totals, which is the check applied to every table here. The lowest-totals table is restricted to innings in which a side was bowled out, so rain-shortened innings and completed chases are excluded even where the score was smaller. The highest-totals table has no such restriction, because the question it answers is simply how many runs were made.

Averages, strike rates and economy rates are as displayed by Statsguru. No qualification threshold has been applied to the batting and bowling tables, because they are ranked by aggregate runs and wickets rather than by rate; a threshold matters when ranking averages, and none of these tables does. Where a bowler's best innings figures are named in the prose, they come from the same query. Head-to-head totals move whenever the two sides play, so the figures here should be read as correct to the stated date rather than as permanent. Nothing on this page has been computed from ball-by-ball data; it is a reading of published match records.