Stats: Border-Gavaskar Trophy

The Border-Gavaskar trophy, is one of the most competitive Test series played in the world cricket. The first Border-Gavaskar series was played back in 1996, and since then 10 series have taken place, out of which India has won 5 and Australia 4. A of 32 matches have been played and India has won 9 matches.

 

Let’s take a look through some interesting stats of Border-Gavaskar Trophy:

Top 5 Highest Totals:

TEAM	RUNS	OVERS	GROUND
India	705/7 dec	187.3	Sydney
Australia	659/4 dec	163.0	Sydney
India	657/7 dec	178.0	Kolkata
India	633/5 dec	159.0	Kolkata
India	613/7 dec	161.0	Delhi

 

Top 5 Largest Victories:

TEAM	MARGIN	GROUND
India	Innings & 219 runs	Kolkata
Australia	Innings & 141 runs	Sydney
Australia	Innings & 68 runs	Sydney
Australia	Innings & 37 runs	Perth
Australia	342 runs	Nagpur

 

Top 5 Players with most runs:

PLAYER	MATCHES	RUNS	HUNDRED’s	HIGHEST
SR Tendulkar	30	3070	9	241*
RT Ponting	29	2555	8	257
VVS Laxman	29	2434	6	281
R Dravid	32	2143	2	233
ML Hayden	18	1888	6	203

 

High Scores in a match:

PLAYER	RUNS	BALLS	GROUND
MJ Clarke	329*	468	Sydney
VVS Laxman	281	452	Kolkata
RT Ponting	257	458	Melbourne
RT Ponting	242	352	Adelaide
SR Tendulkar	241*	363	Bangalore

 

Most Wickets:

PLAYER	MATCHES	WICKETS	MAIDENS
Anil Kumble	20	111	181
Harbhajan Singh	16	90	155
Zaheer Khan	19	61	113
Brett Lee	12	53	93
GD McGrath	11	51	157

 

Best bowling figures in an innings:

PLAYER	OVERS	RUNS	WICKETS
Harbhajan Singh	41.5	84	8
Anil Kumble	46.5	141	8
JJ Krejza	43.5	215	8
Anil Kumble	17.3	48	7
Harbhajan Singh	37.5	123	7