Australian cricket team in India in 2004–05

Australia in India in 2004-05
	India	Australia
Dates	October – November 2004
Captains	Sourav Ganguly (1st and 2nd Tests) Rahul Dravid (3rd and 4th Tests)	Adam Gilchrist (1st-3rd Tests) Ricky Ponting (4th Test)
Test series
Result	Australia won the 4-match series 2–1
Most runs	Virender Sehwag (299)	Damien Martyn (444)
Most wickets	Anil Kumble (27)	Jason Gillespie (20)
Player of the series	Damien Martyn (Aus)

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 (54 overs) 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 (49 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 and scored his first century in Tests.

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.
• Anil Kumble became the second India player to claim 400 wickets in Tests.^[1]

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.

References[]

External links[]

• Series home on CricInfo