2004–05 Border-Gavaskar Trophy

Australia in India in 2004-05
	India	Australia
Dates	October – November 2004
Captains	Rahul Dravid	Ricky Ponting
Test series
Result	Australia won the 4-match series 2–1
Most runs	Virender Sehwag 444	Damien Martyn 299
Most wickets	Anil Kumble 27	Jason Gillespie 20
Player of the series	Damien Martyn

The Australia national cricket team toured India in the 2004–05 season and played a four-match Test series, during October and November 2004, against India, Australia winning the series 2–1 with one match drawn, their first series win on Indian soil since their 1969-70 tour. The future Australian Test captain, Michael Clarke, made his Test debut in the first match, scoring 151 in the first innings. In the fourth match of the series, Clarke took 6 wickets for 9 runs in the second innings.

Tour match

First class: Mumbai v Australians

30 September-2 October Scorecard

Australians	v	Mumbai
302/7d (101 overs) Damien Martyn 71 (150) Ramesh Powar 2/104 (29 overs)		255 (92.2 overs) Amol Muzumdar 52 (96) Glenn McGrath 4/25 (21.2 overs)
207/2 Justin Langer 108 (151) Ramesh Powar 1/85 (16 overs)

Match drawn Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: Tej Handu (Ind) and Krishna Hariharan (Ind)

• Australians won the toss and elected to bat
• Rain on Day 4 prevented play until 13:40
• First class debut for VA Indulkar (Ind)

Test series

1st Test

6 October 2004 Scorecard

Australia	v	India
474 (130 overs) Michael Clarke 151 (248) Harbhajan Singh 5/146 (41 overs)		246 (89.2 overs) Parthiv Patel 46 (125) Glenn McGrath 4/55 (25 overs)
228 (78.1 overs) Damien Martyn 45 (139) Harbhajan Singh 6/78 (30.1 overs)		239 (87.4 overs) Rahul Dravid 60 (188) Jason Gillespie 3/33 (14.4 overs)

Australia won by 217 runs M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZ) and Steve Bucknor (WI) Player of the match: Michael Clarke (Aus)

• Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
• Michael Clarke (Aus) made his Test debut.

2nd Test

14 October 2004 Scorecard

Australia	v	India
235 (71.3 overs) Justin Langer 71 (113) Anil Kumble 7/48 (17.3 overs)		376 (134.3 overs) Virender Sehwag 155 (221) Shane Warne 6/125 (42.3 overs)
369 (133.5 overs) Damien Martyn 104 (210) Anil Kumble 6/133 (47 overs)		19/0 (3 overs) Virender Sehwag 12* (10)

Match drawn MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai Umpires: Rudi Koertzen (SA) and David Shepherd (Eng) Player of the match: Anil Kumble (Ind)

• Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
• No play was possible on day 5.

3rd Test

26 October 2004 Scorecard

Australia	v	India
398 (100.2 overs) Damien Martyn 114 (165) Zaheer Khan 4/95 (26.2 overs)		185 (91.5 overs) Mohammad Kaif 55 (151) Jason Gillespie 5/56 (22.5 overs)
329/5 dec (98.1 overs) Simon Katich 99 (157) Zaheer Khan 2/64 (21.1 overs)		200 (53.3 overs) Virender Sehwag 58 (94) Jason Gillespie 4/24 (16 overs)

Australia won by 342 runs Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur Umpires: Aleem Dar (Pak) and David Shepherd (Eng) Player of the match: Damien Martyn (Aus)

• Australia won the toss and elected to bat.

4th Test

3 November 2004 Scorecard

India	v	Australia
104 (41.3 overs) Rahul Dravid 31* (104) Jason Gillespie 4/29 (12 overs)		203 (61.3 overs) Damien Martyn 55 (114) Anil Kumble 5/90 (19 overs)
205 (68.2 overs) VVS Laxman 69 (127) Michael Clarke 6/9 (6.2 overs)		93 (30.5 overs) Matthew Hayden 24 (30) Harbhajan Singh 5/29 (10.5 overs)

India won by 13 runs Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: Aleem Dar (Pak) and Rudi Koertzen (SA) Player of the match: Murali Kartik (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to bat.
• Nathan Hauritz (Aus), Dinesh Karthik (Ind) and Gautam Gambhir (Ind) made their Test debuts.

External links

• Series home on CricInfo