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India’s Test Record (results) at the Sydney Cricket Ground – CricIndeed

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The Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) is among the world’s finest stadium and is a traditional Test match venue in Australia. It hosted its first Test back in 1882 and a whopping 111 Tests have happened since. Australia, as expected have won 61 of those and lost just 28. This goes to show how dominant are the Aussies at the home.

India, emerging as one of their toughest touring competitors down under have played at the venue 13 times since their first tour in 1947. Here in this piece, will look in detail on as to how India has performed at the SCG in Test match cricket.

India’s Test Record at the SCG

Span1947-Present
Matches13
Won1
Lost5
Tied0
Drawn7
Win %7.69
Highest Team Score705/7 dec
Lowest Team Score150

Key Stats

1 – The Indian Test team has registered just a solitary win at one of the iconic venue of World Cricket, SCG and it came in their third game at the venue in the 1978 tour.

Innings and 2 runs – The visiting Indian team won the game convincingly and Bhagwat Chandrasekhar stood out taking six wickets across both innings.

705/7d – This is the highest total achieved by an Indian team at the SCG and it came in the 2004 series. In this essay, Sachin scored a magnificent 241* while VVS Laxman (178) played another one of his mammoth knocks against the Aussies.

India have also registered three other scores of 500 plus at venue, 622/7d in 2019, 600/4d in 1986 and 532 in the 2008 tour. Barring 2008 which the Aussies won, rest of the games ended in a draw.

659/5d – Similarly, this was the highest score posted by Australia against India at the SCG and it came at the 2011/12 tour where the home team won by an innings & 68 runs. This was the game where Michael Clarke registered his best Test score (329*).

5 – India, at the same time has lost 5 games at the venue when playing against Australia and their heaviest defeat is by a margin of innings & 141 runs in the 1999/00 series held down under. Aussies declared at the score of 552/5 in the only innings they played with Justin Langer top scoring with 223 and India didn’t stand a chance to cross the score even after batting twice. Glenn McGrath rolled them through with a 10 wicket haul (5/48 and 5/55).

785 – Among Indian players, Sachin Tendulkar has scored the most runs at this venue against Australia. Sachin’s 241 is still the best score by an Indian here. Sachin is also the second highest runs scorer against Australia in Tests overall; you know who tops the list.

3– Along with Sachin, VVS Laxman has also scored 3 centuries at SCG and there are 8 other Indian batters who have scored at least a century here.

20 – Anil Kumble has taken the most wickets at the venue for an Indian bowler and his figures of 8/141 is the best for India at the SCG.

6 – Apart from Kumble, there are 5 other India bowlers who have picked a five-wicket haul at this venue.

You can also find similar stats for India in other Australian venues here.



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