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Date | 13 December 1985 – 9 February 1986 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Result | 3-match series drawn 0–0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Indian national cricket team toured Australia in the 1985–86 season. They played 3 Test matches. The Test series was drawn 0-0. Kapil Dev and Kris Srikkanth were awarded as joint players of the series.
After the Test series India also competed in a tri nation ODI tournament Archived 30 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine with Australia and New Zealand they won 5 of their 10-round robin matches. In the best of three final with Australia they lost 2–0.
One of cricket's most respected and important figures, Steve Waugh, made his debut on the Boxing Day test at Melbourne in second test of the series.
27 November
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Australian Capital Territory
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29 November–2 December
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4 December
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Victoria Country
116 (38 overs) |
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G. Salmon 21
Roger Binny 3/17 (6 overs) |
Dilip Vengsarkar 64*
P. Newland 2/41 (11 overs) |
6–9 December
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13–17 December 1985
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2–6 January 1986
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6/119 (77 overs)
Geoff Marsh 28 (84) |