New Delhi. The countdown for the Test series between India and Australia has started. After 10 days, both the teams will face each other in Perth. India has won both the last series on Australia tour. Indian fans are expecting him to score a hat-trick of wins this time. If India wants to win, it will have to improve its batting. Let us know which batsmen of India can prove to be important against Australia. Which batsman has the highest average against Australia?
Don Bradman has done the feat of scoring the highest average in the 107 Test matches played so far between India and Australia. Bradman had scored 715 runs in 5 test matches against India at an average of 178.75. This included 4 centuries and one half-century. Australia’s Arthur Hassett has also scored 332 runs in 4 matches against India at an average of 110.66. Among the batsmen of both the countries, only these two have an average of more than 100.
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Akshar Patel at number one
Akshar Patel has scored 264 runs in 4 matches against Australia at an average of 88.00. In this way, when the question of scoring runs at the highest average against Australia comes, the first Indian name that comes in the answer is Axar Patel. Incidentally, Axar Patel is a member of the current Team India, but he will not be on the Australia tour. Akshar has not been included in the Test team against Australia. However, he was part of the team in the Test series against New Zealand. Akshar Patel is currently with Team India on the South African tour.
Ravi Shastri at number two
Ravi Shastri’s name is at second place in this list of Indian batsmen with high average against Australia. Shastri has scored 622 runs in 9 test matches against Australia at an average of 77.75. Rishabh Pant (62.40) is at third and Sandeep Patil (62.20) is at fourth. After these 4 batsmen comes Sachin Tendulkar. He has scored 3630 runs in 39 matches against Australia at an average of 55.00. In this list of Indians, Virat Kohli’s name comes at number 12. Gundappa Vishwanath, Sunil Gavaskar, Shikhar Dhawan, VVS Laxman, Cheteshwar Pujara and Vijay Hazare have scored runs at a higher average than Virat.
Kohli’s performance in Australia is good
But if we talk about the performance of Indian batsmen in Australia, then Virat Kohli quickly comes up in such a list. There are only 4 batsmen from India who have scored more than 1000 runs in Test matches in Australia. The first name among these is Sachin Tendulkar (1809) and the second name is Virat Kohli (1352). VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid have also scored more than 1000 runs in Australia.
What can we say about Rishabh Pant?
If we make a list of batsmen who have scored 500 or more runs with the highest average in Australia, then Virat Kohli comes at third place. Rishabh Pant has scored 624 runs here at an average of 62.40. Mohinder Amarnath has also scored 668 runs in Australia at an average of 55.66. Virat Kohli has scored runs at an average of 54.08 in Australia. Because of this excellent average, coach Gautam Gambhir is hopeful that King Kohli will perform well in Australia. Sachin Tendulkar has scored 1809 runs at an average of 53.20.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: November 11, 2024, 21:13 IST