2012–13 Border–Gavaskar Trophy

Australian cricket team in India in 2012–13
	Australia	India
Dates	12 February 2013 – 26 March 2013
Captains	Michael Clarke	Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Test series

The Australia national cricket team is touring India from 12 February to 26 March 2013 and will play a four-match Test series against India. During the 1st Test the Indian captain M S Dhoni set the highest score by an Indian Test captain, scoring 224 runs, beating the previous record held by Sachin Tendulkar.^[1]

Australia announced a 17 member squad for Tests with Glenn Maxwell and Moises Henriques as the only two uncapped players.^[2]

Tests
India	Australia[2]
MS Dhoni (c) Virender Sehwag Sachin Tendulkar Virat Kohli Shikhar Dhawan Murali Vijay Ajinkya Rahane Cheteshwar Pujara Ravindra Jadeja Harbhajan Singh Ishant Sharma Bhuvneshwar Kumar Ravichandran Ashwin Pragyan Ojha Ashok Dinda	Michael Clarke (c) Shane Watson (vc) Jackson Bird Ed Cowan Xavier Doherty Moisés Henriques Phillip Hughes Mitchell Johnson Usman Khawaja Nathan Lyon Glenn Maxwell James Pattinson Peter Siddle Steve Smith Matthew Wade (wk) Mitchell Starc David Warner

12–13 February 2013 Scorecard

Australians	v	Board President's XI
241 (88.3 overs) Ed Cowan 58 (109) Parvez Rasool 7/45 (28.3 overs)		230 (68.3 overs) Ambati Rayudu 87 (150) Moisés Henriques 4/12 (9.3 overs)
15/0 (4 overs) Glenn Maxwell 12* (14) Parvinder Awana 0/4 (2 overs)

Match drawn Guru Nanak College Ground, Chennai Umpires: Sudhir Asnani and CK Nandan

• Australians won the toss and elected to bat

16–18 February 2013 Scorecard

India A	v	Australians
451 (128.4 overs) Manoj Tiwary 129 (187) Ashton Agar 3/107 (20 overs)		235 (62.3 overs) Shane Watson 84 (87) Rakesh Dhurv 5/51 (14.3 overs)
		195/3 f/o (55 overs) Shane Watson 60 (63) Jalaj Saxena 1/37 (16 overs)

Match drawn Guru Nanak College Ground, Chennai Umpires: Anil Chaudhary and Pashchim Pathak

• India A won the toss and elected to bat

22–26 February 2013 Scorecard

Australia	v	India
380 (133 overs) Michael Clarke 130 (246) Ravichandran Ashwin 7/103 (42 overs)		572 (154.3 overs) M S Dhoni 224 (265) James Pattinson 5/96 (30 overs)
241 (93 overs) Moises Henriques 81* (148) Ravichandran Ashwin 5/95 (32 overs)		50/2 (10.3 overs) Virender Sehwag 19 (24) James Pattinson 1/13 (3 overs)

India win by 8 wickets M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai Umpires: Kumar Dharmasena (SL) and Marais Erasmus (RSA)

• Australia won the toss and elected to bat
• Test debut : Moises Henriques (Australia) and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (India)

2–6 March 2013 Scorecard

India	v	Australia

Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad Umpires: Kumar Dharmasena (SL) and Marais Erasmus (RSA)

14–18 March 2013 Scorecard

India	v	Australia

Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh

24–28 March 2013 Scorecard

India	v	Australia

Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

Australia

• Michael Clarke reached 7,000 Test Career runs when he scored 130 in the 1st innings of the 1st Test.
• Michael Clarke scored his 23rd Test Century when he scored 130 in the 1st innings of the 1st Test.
• Moises Henriques scored his 1st Test Half Century when he scored 68 in the 1st innings of the 1st Test.
• James Pattinson took his 3rd five-wicket haul in the 1st innings of the 1st Test.
• Moises Henriques took his 1st Test Wicket when he bowled Harbhajan Singh in the 1st innings of the 1st Test.

India

• Ravichandran Ashwin took his 6th five-wicket haul in the 1st innings of the 1st Test.
• Virat Kohli scored his 4th Test Century when he scored 107 in the 1st innings of the 1st Test.
• MS Dhoni reached 4,000 Test Career runs when he scored 224 in the 1st innings of the 1st Test.
• MS Dhoni scored his 1st Test Double-Century and his 6th Test Century when he scored 224 in the 1st innings of the 1st Test.
• Ravichandran Ashwin took his 7th five-wicket haul and his 2nd ten-wickets in a match in the 2nd innings of the 1st Test.