Indian cricket team in Australia in 1977–78
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Most runs | |||||||||||||
Bob Simpson (539) | Gundappa Viswanath (473) | ||||||||||||
Most wickets | |||||||||||||
Wayne Clark (28) | Bishan Bedi (31) | ||||||||||||
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The India national cricket team toured Australia in the 1977–78 season to play 5 Test matches. Australia won the test series 3-2. The matches were played at the same time as the first World Series Cricket matches.
Test series summary
First Test
Second Test
Third Test
Fourth Test
Fifth Test
28 January–3 February Scorecard |
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- Australia won the toss and decided to bat
- Rick Darling, Bruce Yardley, Ian Callen and Graeme Wood (Aus) made their Test debuts.
External sources
Annual reviews
Further reading
- Chris Harte, A History of Australian Cricket, Andre Deutsch, 1993
- Ramachandra Guha, A Corner of a Foreign Field - An Indian History of a British Sport, Picador, 2001
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