Australian cricket team in India in 2004–05

Australia in India in 2004-05
Australia in India in 2004-05
Dates	October – November 2004
Test series
Result	Australia won the 4-match series 2–1
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[edit]

First class: Mumbai v Australians[edit]

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)

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[edit]

1st Test[edit]

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 the toss and elected to bat.
Michael Clarke (Aus) made his Test debut and scored his first century in Tests.

2nd Test[edit]

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)

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[edit]

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 the toss and elected to bat.

4th Test[edit]

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

References[edit]

↑ "Kumble joins 400 club". Rediff.com. Retrieved 2 February 2021.

External links[edit]

Series home on CricInfo

Preceded by 2000–01	Australian cricket team in India	Succeeded by 2007

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[1] "Kumble joins 400 club". Rediff.com. Retrieved 2 February 2021.

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