Last time India were in Australia, it was a firework of a series with some controversies and plenty of high quality cricket. Aussies retained the Border-Gavaskar tests trophy but India went on to win the Commonwealth Bank tri-series. Cricket Australia scrapped 14 year long tradition of annual CB tri-series since then but now, with India returning, tri-series returns too, with Sri Lanka as the third team..
India's tour of Australia begins 18th December 2011 with a 3 day warm-up game against CA Chairman's XI at Manuka Oval in Canberra and then the first test match from 26th December = Boxing day, at Melbourne cricket ground. India play second test at Sydney from 3rd January 2012, third at Perth in Westen Australia from 13th January and fourth and final test at Adelaide Oval from 24th January in new year.
Fact : Coming onto this tour, India had not lost to Australia since that sad
Sydney test 2008, winning 5 and drawing 3 matches since then!
India will play two twenty20 internationals against home team on 1st and 3rd February 2012 at Sydney and Melbourne before the tri-series begins on 5th February. It will be a 15 match one day series where each team plays other four times and then best of 3 finals, at Brisbane and Adelaide (Adelaide again if required).
| Fixtures/Schedule : India v Australia test series 2011-2012 |
| Date |
Match |
Venue/result |
| 15-16 December 2011 |
Indians v CA Chairman's XI |
Draw |
| 19-21 December 2011 |
Indians v CA Chairman's XI |
Draw |
| 26-30 December 2011 |
India v Australia, 1st test |
Aus won by 122 runs |
| 3-7 January 2012 |
India v Australia, 2nd test |
Aus won by inn + 68 runs |
| 13-17 January 2012 |
India v Australia, 3rd test |
Aus won by inn + 37 runs |
| 24-28 January 2012 |
India v Australia, 4th test |
Aus won by 298 runs |
| India v Australia 2 Twenty20 series 2012 |
| 1 February 2012 |
India v Australia, 1st T20 (N) |
Aus won by 31 runs |
| 3 February 2012 |
India v Australia, 2nd T20 (N) |
India won by 8 wkts |
| India v Australia v Sri Lanka Tri-series 2012 |
| 5 February 2012 |
Match 1 : India v Australia (D/N) |
Aus won by 65 runs |
| 8 February 2012 |
Match 2 : India v Sri Lanka (D/N) |
India won by 4 wkts |
| 10 February 2012 |
Match 3 : Australia v Sri Lanka (D/N) |
Aus won by 5 runs |
| 12 February 2012 |
Match 4 : India v Australia (D/N) |
India won by 4 wkts |
| 14 February 2012 |
Match 5 : India v Sri Lanka (D/N) |
Tie : Ind 236/9, SL 236/9 |
| 17 February 2012 |
Match 6 : Australia v Sri Lanka (D/N) |
SL won by 8 wkts |
| 19 February 2012 |
Match 7 : India v Australia (D/N) |
Aus won by 110 runs |
| 21 February 2012 |
Match 8 : India v Sri Lanka (D/N) |
SL won by 51 runs |
| 24 February 2012 |
Match 9 : Australia v Sri Lanka (D/N) |
SL won by 3 wkts |
| 26 February 2012 |
Match 10 : India v Australia (D/N) |
Aus won by 87 runs |
| 28 February 2012 |
Match 11 : India v Sri Lanka (D/N) |
India won by 7 wkts |
| 2 March 2012 |
Match 12 : Australia v Sri Lanka (D/N) |
Melbourne cricket ground |
| 4 March 2012 |
1st Final (D/N) |
Gabba in Brisbane |
| 6 March 2012 |
2nd Final (D/N) |
Adelaide Oval |
| 8 March 2012 |
3rd Final (if required) (D/N) |
Adelaide Oval |
