India vs Australia T20I Head-to-Head: Record & Results
By CricketTaken EditorialPublished Cricket in India9 min read
India and Australia have played thirty-seven men's Twenty20 internationals. India have won twenty-two, Australia twelve, and three were washed out without a result. There has never been a tie between them in the format, and no match has gone to a super over — which, for a fixture that has produced two 220-plus chases and a one-run-an-over swing in the last three overs on several occasions, is a statistical oddity rather than a sign of comfortable cricket.
The first meeting was the semi-final of the inaugural World Twenty20 at Kingsmead on 22 September 2007, which India won by fifteen runs after Yuvraj Singh's 70 from 30 balls. The most recent was a rain-abandoned match at the Gabba on 8 November 2025, the last game of a series India had already won.
Between those two the balance has shifted steadily India's way. Australia led the head-to-head 4–3 after the World Twenty20 group match at Colombo in September 2012, and the sides were level at 4–4 after Rajkot in October 2013. India have won eighteen of the twenty-six completed matches since.
The overall record
| Matches | India won | Australia won | No result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All T20Is | 37 | 22 | 12 | 3 |
| In India | 15 | 10 | 5 | 0 |
| In Australia | 17 | 9 | 5 | 3 |
| Neutral grounds | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
The Australian column is the surprise. India have won more T20 internationals in Australia than Australia have, and by the same margin as in India. Nine of India's twenty-two wins have come at Australian grounds, spread across Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Canberra, Hobart and Carrara.
The five neutral matches are all in global tournaments: Durban and Bridgetown, Colombo, Mirpur and Gros Islet.
Series by series
| Series | Host | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 2007 | India | India won 1–0 |
| Feb 2008 | Australia | Australia won 1–0 |
| Feb 2012 | Australia | Drawn 1–1 |
| Oct 2013 | India | India won 1–0 |
| Jan 2016 | Australia | India won 3–0 |
| Oct 2017 | India | Drawn 1–1 |
| Nov 2018 | Australia | Drawn 1–1 |
| Feb 2019 | India | Australia won 2–0 |
| Dec 2020 | Australia | India won 2–1 |
| Sep 2022 | India | India won 2–1 |
| Nov 2023 | India | India won 4–1 |
| Oct 2025 | Australia | India won 2–1 |
India have won the last three bilateral series between the sides. Australia's most recent series win came in India in February 2019, when they took a two-match series 2–0 at Visakhapatnam and Bengaluru — Glenn Maxwell making 113 not out from 55 balls in the second of those.
The 2016 tour is the outlier in India's favour: a 3–0 sweep in Australia in January, immediately after India had lost the Test and one-day legs of the same tour.
Team totals in the fixture
| Score | Ground | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| India's highest | 235/4 | Greenfield, Thiruvananthapuram | 26 Nov 2023 |
| Australia's highest | 225/5 | Barsapara, Guwahati | 28 Nov 2023 |
| India's lowest | 74 | Melbourne | 1 Feb 2008 |
| Australia's lowest | 86 | Mirpur | 30 Mar 2014 |
Both record highs came within two days of each other on the same tour, which says a good deal about the November 2023 series. The 74 all out at the MCG in 2008 is India's lowest total in the whole of their T20 international history; it lasted 17.5 overs, Nathan Bracken took 3 for 11, and Australia knocked the runs off inside twelve overs.
Australia's 86 came in the World T20 quarter-final group stage at Mirpur, where Ravichandran Ashwin took 4 for 11 from 3.3 overs. India won by 73 runs, which remains the largest margin either side has managed. That tournament is covered on the 2014 T20 World Cup page.
Leading run scorers
Qualification: 250 runs or more in the fixture.
| Batter | Team | Runs | Balls | Strike rate | Sixes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virat Kohli | India | 794 | 557 | 142.5 | 26 |
| Glenn Maxwell | Australia | 576 | 381 | 151.2 | 38 |
| Aaron Finch | Australia | 500 | 357 | 140.1 | 11 |
| Matthew Wade | Australia | 488 | 311 | 156.9 | 20 |
| Rohit Sharma | India | 484 | 322 | 150.3 | 29 |
| Suryakumar Yadav | India | 374 | 217 | 172.4 | 25 |
| Shikhar Dhawan | India | 347 | 249 | 139.4 | 10 |
| MS Dhoni | India | 313 | 279 | 112.2 | 11 |
| Shane Watson | Australia | 302 | 191 | 158.1 | 20 |
| Yuvraj Singh | India | 283 | 175 | 161.7 | 19 |
Virat Kohli has more runs against Australia in this format than anyone has against anyone, but he has never made a T20 international hundred against them: his highest is 90 not out at the Adelaide Oval in January 2016, and he passed fifty eight times without going on. Glenn Maxwell has the two highest Australian scores in the fixture and thirty-eight sixes, twelve more than Kohli in two hundred fewer balls.
The largest individual score by an India batter in the fixture is Ruturaj Gaikwad's 123 from 57 balls at Guwahati in November 2023 — made in a defeat, after Maxwell's 104 from 48 chased down 223. Shane Watson's 124 from 71 at the SCG in January 2016 is the highest by anyone, and it also ended on the losing side.
Leading wicket takers
Qualification: eight wickets or more in the fixture.
| Bowler | Team | Wickets | Overs | Economy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jasprit Bumrah | India | 20 | 62.5 | 7.73 |
| Axar Patel | India | 17 | 41.0 | 6.41 |
| Nathan Ellis | Australia | 16 | 34.3 | 9.09 |
| Adam Zampa | Australia | 15 | 55.0 | 7.58 |
| Jason Behrendorff | Australia | 13 | 31.0 | 6.74 |
| Arshdeep Singh | India | 11 | 27.0 | 9.81 |
| Shane Watson | Australia | 10 | 29.7 | 7.55 |
| Ravichandran Ashwin | India | 10 | 31.2 | 8.44 |
| Kuldeep Yadav | India | 10 | 27.3 | 7.21 |
| Bhuvneshwar Kumar | India | 9 | 30.7 | 7.76 |
Jasprit Bumrah leads on wickets but not on economy; Axar Patel's 6.41 across forty-one overs is the standout control figure on either side. The best return in the fixture is Ashwin's 4 for 11 at Mirpur, followed by Behrendorff's 4 for 21 at Guwahati in 2017 and Krunal Pandya's 4 for 36 at the SCG in 2018.
November 2023, and what a five-match series looks like
The 2023 series in India is the densest stretch this fixture has produced, and it is worth taking as a unit. India won it 4–1, but four of the five matches produced 380 runs or more.
Vizag opened it with Australia making 208 for 3 and India chasing it with two wickets left. Thiruvananthapuram produced India's record 235 for 4. Guwahati produced 447 runs and an Australian win. Raipur and Bengaluru were both low, both close, and both won by India by twenty runs and six runs respectively. Two of those five matches appear on the list of India's highest T20I match aggregates.
It also came three weeks after the 2023 one-day World Cup final at Ahmedabad, which Australia had won, and both sides were fielding largely second-choice squads. The results of the fixture are frequently distorted by exactly that: T20 series between these teams are usually scheduled around something more important, and the strongest available XIs meet rarely.
The last ten meetings
| Date | Ground | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Nov 2023 | Thiruvananthapuram | India by 44 runs |
| 28 Nov 2023 | Guwahati | Australia by 5 wickets |
| 1 Dec 2023 | Raipur | India by 20 runs |
| 3 Dec 2023 | Bengaluru | India by 6 runs |
| 24 Jun 2024 | Gros Islet | India by 24 runs |
| 29 Oct 2025 | Canberra | No result |
| 31 Oct 2025 | Melbourne | Australia by 4 wickets |
| 2 Nov 2025 | Hobart | India by 5 wickets |
| 6 Nov 2025 | Carrara | India by 48 runs |
| 8 Nov 2025 | Brisbane | No result |
Six wins from the eight that produced a result. The Gros Islet match in June 2024 was the Super Eight game India won on the way to their T20 World Cup title, covered on the 2024 T20 World Cup page.
Three things the record shows
India have the better World Cup record in this fixture, 4–2 across six meetings at global events: wins at Durban in 2007, Mirpur in 2014, Mohali in 2016 and Gros Islet in 2024, defeats at Bridgetown in 2010 and Colombo in 2012. Both defeats came in the format's first six years.
The chasing side has won twenty of the thirty-four completed matches, and the two largest successful chases both belong to Australia: 223 at Guwahati in November 2023 and 209 at Mohali in September 2022. India's largest is 209 at Visakhapatnam, five days before the Guwahati game, won with two wickets in hand. No target above 225 has been set in the fixture at all.
The neutral-venue record is the most even part of it: three wins to two. That matters more than it sounds, because those five matches are the only ones played with both sides at full strength in a knockout context. India's dominance in this fixture is real but is built substantially on bilateral series played around larger tours. The longer-form picture is on the India versus Australia Test record and the India versus Australia ODI record, and the shape of the whole contest is set out in the India-Australia rivalry guide. For the wider Indian game, start at the cricket in India hub.
Sources and method
Results, totals and margins are taken from public ball-by-ball records of every men's T20 international between India and Australia, from September 2007 to those completed before 1 August 2026. Batting and bowling aggregates are computed from the same deliveries, which means a bowler is credited with a wicket only where the dismissal is attributable to him — run outs are excluded, as they are on an official scorecard.
The run-scorer table uses a qualification threshold of 250 runs in the fixture and the bowling table a threshold of eight wickets. Without thresholds, a single good match would place a player above someone with a decade of appearances, and strike rates and economy rates computed on two innings mean nothing.
Matches abandoned without a ball bowled are counted in the thirty-seven and in the no-result column, but contribute nothing to the totals or the player aggregates. Venue splits treat matches in India, matches in Australia and matches at third-country grounds separately. Figures are current to 19 August 2026, and this page describes what the results were rather than predicting what the next series will do.