introduction to Australian Men’s Cricket Team vs India National Cricket Team Timeline
The Australian men’s cricket team vs India national cricket team timeline starts with India’s latest win. The last completed senior men’s match between the two sides was the 4th T20I at Carrara Oval on the Gold Coast on 6 November 2025, where India beat Australia by 48 runs. The final T20I at the Gabba two days later was washed out with India on 52/0, so India took the five-match series 2-1.
Australia and India have not met in senior men’s cricket in 2026. India won the T20 World Cup in March, while Australia went out in the group stage. The next big chapter is the five-Test Border-Gavaskar Trophy in India from 21 January 2027.
Australia vs India Match Summary (Quick Facts)
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Match | Australia vs India, 4th T20I |
| Tournament | India tour of Australia 2025 (5-match T20I series) |
| Date | 6 November 2025 |
| Venue | Carrara Oval (Gold Coast Stadium), Queensland |
| Toss | Australia won and chose to bowl |
| Result | India won by 48 runs (India 167/8, Australia 119 all out in 18.2 overs) |
| Player of the Match | Axar Patel (21* and 2/20) |
| Series result | India won 2-1 (two matches washed out) |
Australian Men’s Cricket Team vs India National Cricket Team Match Timeline
India Innings Timeline (167/8 in 20 overs)
Powerplay (Overs 1–6)
- Mitchell Marsh won the toss and put India in to bat.
- Shubman Gill and Abhishek Sharma attacked from the start. India reached 49 without loss at the end of the powerplay.
Middle Overs (7–15)
- Over 7: Adam Zampa broke the 56-run opening stand, which came off 40 balls, by removing Abhishek for 28.
- Shivam Dube came in at No. 3 and made 22, adding useful runs with Gill.
- After 14 overs, India were 121 with eight wickets in hand. A score above 200 looked possible.
- Over 15: Nathan Ellis removed Gill for 46 off 39 balls (four fours, one six). Captain Suryakumar Yadav also fell, and India were 125/4 in 15.1 overs.
Death Overs (16–20)
- Zampa and Ellis kept tightening the screws. India scored just 46 runs in the last six overs and lost six wickets.
- Washington Sundar hit 12 off 7 balls before Ellis took his third wicket.
- Axar Patel’s 21 not out off 11 balls was the only fluent batting at the end and pushed India to 167/8.
- Ellis finished with 3/21 from four overs. Zampa also took three wickets, for 45 runs.
Australia Innings Timeline (119 all out in 18.2 overs)
Powerplay (Overs 1–6)
- Chasing 168, Marsh and Matthew Short gave Australia a positive start. Marsh top-scored with 30 and Short made 25.
- Axar was introduced and slowed the scoring, taking the first two wickets of the innings.
Middle Overs (7–15)
- Australia were 91/4 after 11.3 overs and still in the game.
- Varun Chakravarthy bowled Glenn Maxwell. It was the sixth time he had dismissed Maxwell in T20Is.
- Shivam Dube’s medium pace took two important wickets and conceded only 20 runs.
- Arshdeep Singh dismissed Josh Philippe for 10, and Jasprit Bumrah chipped in with one wicket.
Death Overs (16–19)
- Washington Sundar bowled for the first time in the series. He trapped Marcus Stoinis lbw for 17 and dismissed Xavier Bartlett next ball.
- Sundar then finished the game, ending with 3/3 from 1.2 overs.
- Australia were bowled out for 119. It was their second-lowest T20I total at home, after 111 against New Zealand in Sydney in 2022.
Turning Point of the Match
The match turned when Axar came on to bowl. Australia’s openers looked set to chase 168 easily. Axar took the first two wickets and gave away only 20 runs in four overs. After that, India’s spinners kept taking wickets in the middle overs. The three spinners took six wickets, and Australia’s lower order collapsed.
Final Match: 5th T20I, Brisbane (8 November 2025)
- Australia won the toss and chose to bowl at the Gabba.
- Gill (29 not out) and Abhishek (23 not out off 13 balls) raced India to 52/0 in 4.5 overs, helped by dropped catches.
- Lightning, followed by heavy rain, stopped play. The match was abandoned and India won the series 2-1.
- During this short innings, Abhishek reached 1,000 T20I runs. He got there in 528 balls, the fastest by any batter from a full-member nation.
Australia vs India Scorecard Highlights (4th T20I)
Top Batters
| Batter | Team | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shubman Gill | IND | 46 | 39 | 4 | 1 |
| Mitchell Marsh | AUS | 30 | — | — | — |
| Abhishek Sharma | IND | 28 | — | — | — |
| Matthew Short | AUS | 25 | — | — | — |
| Shivam Dube | IND | 22 | — | — | — |
| Axar Patel | IND | 21* | 11 | — | — |
Top Bowlers
| Bowler | Team | Overs | Runs | Wickets |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Sundar | IND | 1.2 | 3 | 3 |
| Nathan Ellis | AUS | 4 | 21 | 3 |
| Adam Zampa | AUS | — | 45 | 3 |
| Axar Patel | IND | 4 | 20 | 2 |
| Shivam Dube | IND | — | 20 | 2 |
| Varun Chakravarthy | IND | — | 26 | 1 |
(— means the detail could not be verified from two sources.)
India vs Australia Head-to-Head Record
Head-to-head record as of October 2026 (senior men’s internationals):
| Format | Matches | Australia Wins | India Wins | Draw / Tie / No Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test | 112 | 48 | 33 | 30 draws, 1 tie |
| ODI | 155 | 86 | 59 | 10 no result |
| T20I | 37 | 12 | 22 | 3 no result |
| Total | 304 | 146 | 114 | 44 |
Australia lead overall, mainly because of their strong record in Tests and ODIs. India dominate in T20Is. In the last two years, the momentum has gone back and forth. Australia won the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy 3-1 and the October 2025 ODI series 2-1. India won the Champions Trophy semi-final in 2025 and the T20I series that followed.
Australian Men’s Cricket Team vs India National Cricket Team Rivalry Timeline: Year by Year
- 1947–48 – First Test, Brisbane: Australia won by an innings and 226 runs in the first Test between the two nations.
- 1980 – First ODI: India won the first ODI between the sides by 66 runs on 6 December 1980.
- 1996 – Border-Gavaskar Trophy begins: The Test series gets its famous name, after Allan Border and Sunil Gavaskar.
- 2001 – Kolkata Test: India won after being asked to follow on and ended Australia’s long winning streak. This is still one of the greatest comebacks in Test history.
- 2003 – World Cup final, Johannesburg: Australia won by 125 runs and took the title.
- 2007 – First T20I: India won the T20 World Cup semi-final in Durban by 15 runs on the way to the trophy.
- 2011 – World Cup quarter-final, Ahmedabad: India knocked out the three-time defending champions.
- 2018–19 – Test series in Australia: India won a Test series in Australia for the first time.
- 2020–21 – Adelaide to the Gabba: India were bowled out for 36 in Adelaide, then came back to win the Gabba Test and the series 2-1.
- 2023 – Two finals lost: Australia beat India in the World Test Championship final at The Oval and the ODI World Cup final in Ahmedabad (by six wickets, with Travis Head the star).
- 2024 – T20 World Cup, Super 8: India won by 24 runs in St Lucia, helped by Rohit Sharma’s 92.
- 2024–25 – Border-Gavaskar Trophy: Australia won 3-1 at home and took back the trophy for the first time in a decade.
- 2025 – Champions Trophy semi-final, Dubai: India chased down Australia’s total and won by four wickets.
- October 2025 – ODI series in Australia: Australia won 2-1. India won the last game in Sydney by nine wickets.
- November 2025 – T20I series in Australia: India won 2-1. The first match in Canberra was washed out, Australia won in Melbourne by four wickets, India won in Hobart by five wickets, India won on the Gold Coast by 48 runs, and the Brisbane game was abandoned.
Top Performers in Australia vs India Matches
- Sachin Tendulkar (IND): Most Test runs in the rivalry, 3,630 runs with 11 hundreds.
- Nathan Lyon (AUS): The leading wicket-taker in India-Australia Tests and Australia’s biggest threat on Indian pitches.
- Virat Kohli (IND): Has more than 2,500 ODI runs against Australia. He also passed Kumar Sangakkara to become the second-highest ODI run-scorer in history during the Sydney ODI in 2025.
- Rohit Sharma (IND): Has the most ODI hundreds by a visiting batter in Australia (six). His unbeaten 121 in Sydney was his 33rd ODI ton.
- Anil Kumble (IND): Most five-wicket hauls in India-Australia Tests (10).
- Jasprit Bumrah (IND): Took 32 wickets in the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, even though India lost the series.
- Nathan Ellis (AUS): The top wicket-taker in the 2025 T20I series with nine wickets at an average of 12.77.
Memorable Australia vs India Matches
Kolkata 2001: The follow-on miracle. Australia arrived in India on a record winning run and forced India to follow on at Eden Gardens. VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid batted through a full day, and Harbhajan Singh’s off-spin then bowled Australia out. India won and went on to take the series. Fans still treat this as the best Test ever played between the two sides.
The Gabba 2021: A fortress falls. India were without many first-choice players after injuries, and only weeks earlier they had been bowled out for 36 in Adelaide. In the final Test in Brisbane, India chased the target on the last day. Rishabh Pant’s unbeaten 89 sealed a three-wicket win and a 2-1 series victory, Australia’s first Test loss at the Gabba in more than three decades.
Sydney 2025: Ro-Ko’s farewell. With the ODI series already lost, India needed 237 in the third match at the SCG. Harshit Rana’s career-best 4/39 had bowled Australia out for 236. Rohit (121* off 125) and Kohli (74* off 81) then added an unbeaten 168 to win with 11.3 overs to spare. It was likely their last international match in Australia, and the pro-India crowd gave them a huge send-off.
What’s Next for Australia and India
The next senior men’s meeting is the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2027 in India, a five-Test series. Australia are the trophy holders.
| Test | Dates | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| 1st Test | 21–25 January 2027 | VCA Stadium, Nagpur |
| 2nd Test | 29 January–2 February 2027 | MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai |
| 3rd Test | 11–15 February 2027 | Barsapara Stadium, Guwahati |
| 4th Test | 19–23 February 2027 | JSCA Stadium, Ranchi |
| 5th Test | 27 February–3 March 2027 | Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad |
Before the series, India host Sri Lanka for three ODIs and three T20Is in December 2026, then Zimbabwe for three ODIs in January 2027. Australia’s fringe Test players already had a practice run in India: Australia A toured in September–October 2026, drew the unofficial Tests 1-1 and won the one-day series 2-1.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who won the last Australia vs India match?
The last completed senior men’s match was the 4th T20I on 6 November 2025, which India won by 48 runs at Carrara. The final T20I in Brisbane on 8 November was washed out, so India won the series 2-1.
What is the Australia vs India head-to-head record?
As of October 2026, the two teams have played 304 senior men’s internationals. Australia have won 146 and India 114. Australia lead in Tests (48-33) and ODIs (86-59), while India lead in T20Is (22-12).
Who has scored the most runs in India vs Australia Test matches?
Sachin Tendulkar has the most Test runs in this rivalry, with 3,630 runs and 11 centuries. In ODIs, Virat Kohli has more than 2,500 runs against Australia.
Where was the latest Australia vs India match played?
The last senior men’s meeting was the 5th T20I at the Gabba in Brisbane on 8 November 2025, which was abandoned due to rain. The last completed match was played at Carrara Oval on the Gold Coast.
When is the next Australia vs India match?
The next meeting is the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Nagpur, starting 21 January 2027. The five-Test series ends in Ahmedabad on 3 March 2027.
Did India and Australia play each other in the 2026 T20 World Cup?
No. Australia were knocked out in the group stage after losses to Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka. India went on to win the tournament, beating New Zealand by 96 runs in the final.
Conclusion
The Australian men’s cricket team vs India national cricket team timeline shows a rivalry that keeps changing hands. Australia won the 2024-25 Tests and the 2025 ODI series, but India answered with a T20I series win built on spin and depth. With the Border-Gavaskar Trophy returning to India in January 2027, the next chapter will be about whether Australia can win a Test series in India again. Bookmark this page, as we will update it as the series unfolds.
