Location Australia Allan Border Mohammad Azharuddin | Australia India David Boon (556) Sachin Tendulkar (368) | |
Date 17 November 1991 - 15 March 1992 Result Australia won the 5-match series 4-0 | ||
The Indian national cricket team toured Australia in the 1991–92 season, just before the 1992 Cricket World Cup. The team was led by Mohammed Azharuddin and played 5 test matches. Australia won the test series 4-0. The series is notable from an Indian point of view for Ravi Shastri's double hundred, Sachin Tendulkar's 114 on a bouncy pitch at Perth while the other Indian batsmen struggled and Kapil Dev becoming the first Indian bowler to take 400 wickets in Tests.
World Series Cup
Prior to the Test series, India also competed in the World Series Cup tri-nation ODI tournament involving Australia and the West Indies dropped Viv Richards, and were smarting from the recent retirements of Gordon Greenidge and Jeff Dujon, and had brought a comparatively inexperienced team. India won 3 of their 8 round robin matches and also tied one match against the West Indies. In the best of three final with Australia they lost 2-0.