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

Australia lead this fixture 48-33 from 112 Tests. Thirty have been drawn and one, at Madras in September 1986, was tied — one of only two tied Tests in the game's history. Put like that it looks settled, and for the first half of the fixture's life it was: India won eight Tests out of fifty between November 1947 and January 1992.

The aggregate has stopped describing the present, though. Since the series was given a name in 1996-97, the two sides have played 61 Tests and India have won more of them — 25 to Australia's 23, with thirteen drawn. India have taken ten of the seventeen Border-Gavaskar series to Australia's six.

The most recent Test was at Sydney on 3-5 January 2025, finished inside three days, and Australia won it by six wickets to take the series 3-1 and the trophy back after nine years. The 2024-25 tour was also the first five-Test series between the countries since 1991-92.

The ledger, and where the wins were taken

	Tests	India won	Australia won	Drawn	Tied
All Tests	112	33	48	30	1
In India	54	23	14	16	1
In Australia	57	10	33	14	0
In England	1	0	1	0	0

Two thirds of India's wins in this fixture have come at home, and the away column is the one that has always defined the argument. Ten wins in 57 Tests in Australia is a modest return by the standards of India's recent Test cricket, and six of those ten have come since December 2007: Perth in January 2008, Adelaide and Melbourne in 2018, Melbourne and Brisbane in 2020-21, and Perth in November 2024.

The single Test played in neither country was the World Test Championship final at The Oval in June 2023, which Australia won by 209 runs after Travis Head's 163 in the first innings.

The rivalry before and after the trophy

Period	Series	Tests	India won	Australia won	Drawn	Tied
1947-48 to 1991-92	12	50	8	24	17	1
1996-97 to 2024-25	17	61	25	23	13	0
WTC final, 2023	—	1	0	1	0	0

In the first forty-five years India won one series out of twelve — a six-Test rubber at home in 1979-80, of which they won two and drew four. Four other series were drawn and Australia took seven, three of them by clean sweeps.

The change is not gradual. Australia swept the three Tests in Australia in 1999-2000, India won at home in 2000-01, and that second series is the one the fixture turns on. Since then Australia have won a series in India once, in 2004-05, while India have won two consecutive series in Australia, in 2018-19 and 2020-21. The Border-Gavaskar Trophy history page follows that shift series by series, and the Australian view of the same tours is on the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia page.

Series by series, 1947-48 to 2024-25

Season	Host	Tests	Result
1947-48	Australia	5	Australia won 4-0
1956-57	India	3	Australia won 2-0
1959-60	India	5	Australia won 2-1
1964-65	India	3	Drawn 1-1
1967-68	Australia	4	Australia won 4-0
1969-70	India	5	Australia won 3-1
1977-78	Australia	5	Australia won 3-2
1979-80	India	6	India won 2-0
1980-81	Australia	3	Drawn 1-1
1985-86	Australia	3	Drawn 0-0
1986-87	India	3	Drawn 0-0, one tie
1991-92	Australia	5	Australia won 4-0
1996-97	India	1	India won 1-0
1997-98	India	3	India won 2-1
1999-2000	Australia	3	Australia won 3-0
2000-01	India	3	India won 2-1
2003-04	Australia	4	Drawn 1-1
2004-05	India	4	Australia won 2-1
2007-08	Australia	4	Australia won 2-1
2008-09	India	4	India won 2-0
2010-11	India	2	India won 2-0
2011-12	Australia	4	Australia won 4-0
2012-13	India	4	India won 4-0
2014-15	Australia	4	Australia won 2-0
2016-17	India	4	India won 2-1
2018-19	Australia	4	India won 2-1
2020-21	Australia	4	India won 2-1
2022-23	India	4	India won 2-1
2024-25	Australia	5	Australia won 3-1

Twenty-nine series: eleven to India, thirteen to Australia and five drawn. The single-Test rubber of 1996-97 at Delhi is where the trophy began, and India won it by seven wickets with Anil Kumble taking nine wickets in the match.

Record totals on both sides

	Score	Ground	Season
India's highest	705/7 dec	Sydney	2003-04
Australia's highest	674	Adelaide	1947-48
India's lowest	36	Adelaide	2020-21
Australia's lowest	83	Melbourne	1980-81

India's 705 for 7 at Sydney in January 2004 carried Sachin Tendulkar's 241 not out and VVS Laxman's 178, with 353 added between them for the fourth wicket. Australia's 674 at Adelaide in January 1948 is still the largest total anyone has made against India, and it included Don Bradman's 201 and Lindsay Hassett's unbeaten 198.

The 36 all out at Adelaide on 19 December 2020 is the lowest total in India's Test history, made in 21.2 overs of a day-night Test in which no Indian batter reached double figures. It sits alongside the fixture's other collapses on the India Test lowest completed totals page. India then won the next two Tests of that tour with a bowling attack that changed almost every week.

The highest individual score in the fixture belongs to Michael Clarke: 329 not out at Sydney in January 2012, from 468 balls, after which Australia declared on 659 for 4. India's highest is Laxman's 281 at Eden Gardens in March 2001, played on the third and fourth days after India had been asked to follow on.

The batting since the 2007-08 series

Qualification: 1,000 runs in the 44 Tests played between December 2007 and January 2025.

Batter	Team	Runs	Innings	Average	Highest
Steve Smith	Australia	2,356	46	58.90	192
Virat Kohli	India	2,232	53	43.76	186
Cheteshwar Pujara	India	2,074	45	49.38	204
Sachin Tendulkar	India	1,771	35	57.13	214
Michael Clarke	Australia	1,649	32	53.19	329
Murali Vijay	India	1,324	28	47.29	167
Ricky Ponting	Australia	1,302	24	56.61	221
Ajinkya Rahane	India	1,225	34	39.52	147
David Warner	Australia	1,218	39	31.23	180
Travis Head	Australia	1,163	27	46.52	163
Michael Hussey	Australia	1,078	24	49.00	150
Marnus Labuschagne	Australia	1,007	28	38.73	108

Steve Smith has more runs against India in this window than anyone, and the best average in it. His most productive stretch came in defeat: 499 runs in eight innings on the 2016-17 tour, a series Australia lost 2-1 after leading it.

Tendulkar's figures here cover only the last five years of a career that started against Australia in 1991-92. Across the whole fixture he made 3,630 Test runs, the only man to pass 3,000 in it, and nobody currently playing is within a thousand of that. Cheteshwar Pujara's 2,074 came at 49 an innings from 4,903 balls, more deliveries than any other batter on either side faced in this period, which was rather the point of him.

David Warner's 31.23 is the outlier at the other end of the table. He made 180 at Perth in January 2012 and did not reach three figures against India in any of his remaining Tests.

The bowling since the 2007-08 series

Qualification: 40 wickets in the same 44 Tests. A wicket is credited to the bowler only where the dismissal is his, so run outs are excluded, as they are on a scorecard.

Bowler	Team	Wickets	Overs	Average
Nathan Lyon	Australia	130	1,371.5	31.93
Ravichandran Ashwin	India	115	1,211.5	28.58
Ravindra Jadeja	India	93	798.1	20.81
Pat Cummins	Australia	75	617.4	24.57
Mitchell Starc	Australia	66	691.4	35.85
Jasprit Bumrah	India	64	426.1	17.16
Ishant Sharma	India	59	788.1	42.20
Josh Hazlewood	Australia	57	581.1	25.49
Umesh Yadav	India	53	519.0	38.64
Mitchell Johnson	Australia	50	554.0	36.68
Mohammed Shami	India	44	394.5	32.09
Zaheer Khan	India	43	412.4	32.58

Nathan Lyon's 130 is the whole of his record against India, since he did not play them before 2011-12, and it is the largest haul any bowler has assembled in this fixture. He also owns the two best innings returns of the period, 8 for 50 at Bengaluru in March 2017 and 8 for 64 at Indore in March 2023, both in Tests decided by spin rather than by Australia's fast bowlers.

Ravichandran Ashwin's 115 came at a better average from fewer overs. Ravindra Jadeja's 20.81 is the most economical serious return on either side, and it is almost entirely an Indian-conditions figure. Jasprit Bumrah's 17.16 from 426 overs is the lowest average in the table and was built the other way round, mostly in Australia, including 32 wickets in the 2024-25 series his side lost.

Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh both have more wickets in the fixture than this window shows; Harbhajan's 32 in the 2000-01 series, hat-trick at Eden Gardens included, fall outside it. India's spin record against Australia is treated at greater length in the Indian spin bowling tradition guide.

The last ten Tests

Dates	Ground	Result
Feb 2023	Nagpur	India by an innings and 132 runs
Feb 2023	Delhi	India by 6 wickets
Mar 2023	Indore	Australia by 9 wickets
Mar 2023	Ahmedabad	Drawn
Jun 2023	The Oval	Australia by 209 runs
Nov 2024	Perth	India by 295 runs
Dec 2024	Adelaide	Australia by 10 wickets
Dec 2024	Brisbane	Drawn
Dec 2024	Melbourne	Australia by 184 runs
Jan 2025	Sydney	Australia by 6 wickets

Five to Australia, four to India, one drawn, and only two of the ten reached a fifth day. The Perth Test of November 2024 is the largest margin India have managed anywhere in Australia: bowled out for 150 on the first day, they had Australia out for 104 in reply, then declared on 487 for 6 with Yashasvi Jaiswal making 161 and Virat Kohli 100 not out.

Four things the numbers actually show

Home advantage runs in both directions here, but not equally. Australia have won 14 of 54 Tests in India, a little over a quarter; India have won 10 of 57 in Australia, a little under a fifth. Australia's record as visitors in this fixture is better than India's, and better than most touring sides manage in India.

Draws have nearly stopped. Thirty of the 112 Tests were drawn, but only 13 of the 61 played since 1996-97 and only four of the last twenty. The 2024-25 series produced one draw, and that was rain at the Gabba. Pitches, over rates and declaration habits have all moved, and a series between these two now usually returns a result in every match.

The good years have not overlapped. India's away series wins came in 2018-19, when Australia were without David Warner and Steve Smith, and in 2020-21, played through a pandemic-restricted Australian summer. Australia's most recent series win in India, 2004-05, came with Ricky Ponting missing most of it and Adam Gilchrist captaining. Each side has its asterisk and each is usually raised by the other's supporters.

The trophy changed hands less often than the results suggest. India held the Border-Gavaskar Trophy without interruption from March 2017 to January 2025 — four series, two of them won in Australia — because the holder retains it on a drawn series and India did not lose one in that span. Australia's 3-1 in 2024-25 ended the longest tenure the trophy has had. The rest of the rivalry across all three formats is set out in the India-Australia rivalry guide, with the shorter forms on the India versus Australia ODI record and the India versus Australia T20I record. For the wider picture, begin with the history of Test cricket in India or the cricket in India hub.

Sources and method

Match results, series outcomes and the venue split come from the published record of every men's Test between India and Australia from November 1947 to January 2025, cross-checked against the series-by-series list so that the host rows, the win columns and the overall figure of 112 reconcile exactly. The one Test played in neither country, the 2023 World Test Championship final, is counted on its own row rather than folded into either home total.

Batting and bowling aggregates are computed from ball-by-ball records of the 44 Tests played between December 2007 and January 2025, which is the span for which complete delivery data exists for every match in the fixture. The window is stated on both tables because it changes what the numbers mean: players whose careers straddle it have larger totals across the whole fixture than the tables show, and the text says so where that matters. Averages divide runs by dismissals, so a not-out innings is not counted against a batter.

Thresholds are 1,000 runs for the batting table and 40 wickets for the bowling table. Without them one good series would place a newcomer above a decade of appearances, and an average computed on three innings tells a reader nothing at all. Team-total records and the two highest individual scores are all-time figures rather than window figures, and each is labelled with its season.

Figures are current to 26 August 2026. No Test has been played between the two countries since January 2025, so the ledger above is complete rather than provisional, and this page describes what happened rather than forecasting the next tour. Ball-by-ball data from Cricsheet (cricsheet.org), ODC-BY 1.0.