1977 78 india tour of australia

Zonal representation

  Duleep Trophy teams

C: Central Zone (0), E: East (0), N: North (5), S: South (7), W: West (4)

  Ranji Trophy teams

B -   Bombay (4)

D   -   Delhi   (5)

K   -   Karnataka (5)

TN   -   Tamil Nadu (2)

Average age of   team at time of first Test match

(2 December 1977):

  28 yrs   8 months

Test Appearances made before the tour

Bedi 53,   Chandrasekhar 45,   Prasanna 43,   Viswanath 38,   Venkataraghaven 36,   Gavaskar 32,   Patel 19,   Mankad 18,   Kirmani 15,   Madan Lal 14,   M Amarnath 13,   Gaekwad 13,   Ghavri 8,   Vengsarkar 6,   S Amarnath 5,   Chauhan 5,   Reddy   0.

Tour Officials

J M Ghorpade (chairman ), Raj Singh, M L Jaisimha , C D Gopinath chose the team at a 3½-hour meeting.

Umrigar was appointed to the manager's role on 10 September and Bedi to the captaincy on 9 October.   They were co-opted on to the selection committee.

29 players were invited to a 16-day practice camp in Madras. Six players engaged in English cricket - Bedi , Abid Ali, Doshi , Madan Lal and Mohinder and Surinder Amarnath - would be considered for the Australian tour even if they could not attend the physical fitness camp at Madras.

Unavailable:   Dilip Doshi , who did not play in the Ranji Trophy, was not considered.

Tour Party Announced : 12 October 1977.

Not selected:   Of those at the camp : S Abid Ali, S Banerjee, B A Burman, R Goel , R S Hans, R Jadeja , Kapil Dev, S Krishnan, Narasimha Rao, V Ramnayran , P H Sharma, J Yajurvindra Singh were not selected

D J Rutnagur wrote in Wisden’s that “Gaekwad should have been in the touring party in the first place.â €

Time between selection and departure from India

  (12 - 24 October)

Bombay   Q    Adelaide

The team flew from Santa Cruz Airport, Bombay, on 24 October 1977 and experienced a 15-hour long delay en route to Perth, where they landed ln 25 October, and left for Adelaide by plane the next day.

Extra security had been arranged because of threats against Indian nationals in Australia from a terrorist group.

Time spent in Australia   106 days

(25 October - 8 February)

On-tour selection committee

Bishan Bedi ( captain) ,   Sunil Gavaskar (vice-captain), Polly Umrigar (manager ),   S Venkataraghaven .

Reinforcements

Gaekwad was needed to replace Surinder Amarnath who had a hand injury. Gaekwad left India on 23 January and came in to the side for the Fifth Test.

Fixtures/Results

† not first-class

Time spent in Australia before First Test:

(25 October - 2 December)

Test appearances on tour

5 -    M Amarnath ,   Bedi ,   Chandrasekhar,   Gavaskar ,   Kirmani ,   Vengsarkar ,   Viswanath .

4 -    Chauhan, Prasanna,

3 -    Ghavri ,   Mankad

2 -    Patel,   Madan Lal,

1 -    Gaekwad ,   Venkataraghaven

0 -    S Amarnath , Reddy.

â €¢     Gavaskar as expected led the batting, scoring centuries in each of the first 3 Test matches.

•     Viswanath did not make a century but scored five consecutive fifties and topped the averages with 52.55

•     At Perth, after scoring 90 in the first innings, Mohinder Amarnath scored India’s only other century (100), adding a record 193 for the second wicket with Gavaskar .

â €¢     Bedi took five wickets in an innings on three occasions and had 31 wickets in the Test series.

â €¢     Chandrasekhar’s 12 wickets at Melbourne won the match for India; he took 28 wickets in the series.

Tour Summary

Return to India

  ?    Q   Singapore    Q    Bombay      

The team left Australia on 8 February 1977, played a match against Singapore on the way home, and arrived back in Bombay on 12 February.

Time away from India

    111 days   

(24 October to 12 February)

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India tour of Australia: a brief history

Curated By : Amit Kumar

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Last Updated: December 06, 2014, 11:38 IST

India's dream of winning a Test series in Australia hasn't fulfilled yet. They have toured Australia 10 times but never returned home with the trophy.

India’s dream of winning a Test series in Australia hasn’t fulfilled yet. They have toured Australia 10 times but never returned home with the trophy.

Here is a look-back at India’s performance in Australia from 1947 to 2012.

1947-48: India’s first experience on the Australian soil came when the Lala Amarnath-led India faced Don Bradman’s Australia at the Brisbane Cricket Ground. India began the tour on an awful note as they were trounced by an innings and 226 runs. Amaranth took four wickets in the match.

Riding on an all-round show by Dattu Phadkar (51 runs and 3 wickets), India managed to draw the second Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground but went on to lose the last three Tests. Amarnath was the highest wicket-taker for India with 13 wickets while Vijay Zahare (429) was second in the list of run-getters after Bradman, who led batting chart with 715 runs.

Result: Australia 4, India 0, Draw 1

1967-68: India’s second tour Down Under came after 19 years with Farokh Engineer, Dilip Sardesai, Ajit Wadekar and Chandu Borde on the plane. In the absence of regular captain Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Borde got the chance to lead the team in the first Test. Abid Ali, who was making his debut, bagged 6 wickets while Engineer chipped in with 89 but India lost the match by 146 runs.

India lost the second Test too, where Ajit Wadekar fell short of just one run to reach a century.

India staged a solid fightback in the third Test. Despite a brilliant century from Motganhalli Jaisimha, India lost the match by 35 runs. Pataudi-led India went on to lose the fourth Test as well and suffered a humiliating 4-0 whitewash by the Bill Lawry-captained Australia.

Result: Australia 4, India 0, Drawn 0

1977-78: Bishen Singh Bedi captained India to their first ever Test win on Australian soil in 1977-78. After losing the first two Tests of the five-match series, India went on to win the third and fourth match thanks to the incredible left-arm spin bowling by skipper Bedi and Bhagwath Chandrasekhar, who bagged 31 and 28 wickets, respectively, in the series. But India lost the final game to concede the series 2-3.

Result: Australia 3, India 2, Drawn 0

1980-81: India played three Tests in Australia under Sunil Gavaskar during the tour. After losing the first match, India held the visitors to a draw in the second and then levelled the series by winning the third. Gundappa Viswanath was adjudged ‘Man of the Match’ for his magnificent 114. The series ended in a 1-1 draw.

Result: Australia 1, India 1, Drawn 1

1985-86: The tour saw all three matches of the series being drawn. For his all-round show, captain Kapil Dev was adjudged ‘Man of the Series’.

Result: Australia 0, India 0, Drawn 3

1991-92: The legendary Sachin Tendulkar, who pulled the curtains down on his glorious 24-year career in 2013, notched up his first Test century on the Australian soil on this tour. Other than that, India failed miserably in front of the Australian pace attack and lost the five-match Test series 4-0.

Result: Australia 4, India 0, Drawn 1

1999-2000: Tendulkar captained India on this tour. After losing the first two Tests, India couldn’t salvage pride in the last Test as well despite VVS Laxman’s first Test century in Australia. The hosts swept the series 3-0.

Result: Australia 3, India 0, Drawn 0

2003-04: Chance of winning a Test series in Australia slipped from India’s hand once again. After playing a draw in the opening Test, the Sourav Ganguly-led India won the second match thanks to Rahul Dravid, who followed his magnificent 233 in the first innings by an unbeaten 72 in the second. But India went on to lose the third Test while the fourth ended in a draw. The four-match series was tied 1-1. With 619 runs in the series at an average of 123.80, Dravid was adjudged ‘Man of the Series.’

Result: Australia 1, India 1, Drawn 2

2007-08: Anil Kumble captained India in the 2007-08 Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia which was marred with the ‘Monkeygate’ episode. With the likes of Sehwag, Tendulkar, Ganguly, Dravid and Laxman in the team, India went on tour with high hopes, but the visitors started the campaign on a terrible note losing the first two Tests. And though Kumble & Co won the third Test in Perth, India failed to level the series in the last match to lose it 2-1.

Result: Australia 2, India 1, Drawn 1

2011-12: Mahendra Singh Dhoni skippered the Indian team on the 2011-12 tour. India went in with a combination of young and experienced players but failed to lived up to the expectations suffering a humiliating 4-0 series whitewash. Rahul Dravid took retirement after the tour.

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