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Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Indian Cricket Team's seven consecutive Test Series Victories Tuesday March 28,2017

India on Tuesday March 28,2017 decimated Australia by eight wickets to clinch the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. 


Year Played in Result Player of the series
1996–1997 India India India won the one-off Test 1–0 Nayan Mongia
1997–1998 India India India won the 3-match series 2–1 Sachin Tendulkar
1999–2000 Australia Australia Australia won the 3-match series 3–0 Sachin Tendulkar
2000–2001 India India India won the 3-match series 2–1 Harbhajan Singh
2003–2004 Australia Australia 4-match series drawn 1–1 (Retained By India) Rahul Dravid
2004–2005 India India Australia won the 4-match series 2–1 Damien Martyn
2007–2008 Australia Australia Australia won the 4-match series 2–1 Brett Lee
2008–2009 India India India won the 4-match series 2–0 Ishant Sharma
2010–2011 India India India won the 2-match series 2–0 Sachin Tendulkar
2011–2012 Australia Australia Australia won the 4-match series 4–0 Michael Clarke
2012–2013 India India India won the 4-match series 4–0 Ravichandran Ashwin
2014–2015 Australia Australia Australia won the 4-match series 2–0 Steve Smith
2017 India India India won the 4-match series 2–1 Ravindra Jadeja

The win was also India's seventh in succession after


  1. India in Sri Lanka 3-Match Test Series - 2-1 in 2015
  2. South Africa Ind India 4-Match Test Series - 3-0 in 2015-16
  3. India in West Indies 4-Match Test Series - 2-0 in 2016
  4. New Zealand in India 3-Match Test Series - 3-0 in 2016-17
  5. England in India 5- Match Test Series -4-0 in 2016-17
  6. Bangladesh in India Single Test - 1-0 in 2017
  7. Australia in India 4-Match Test Series 2-1 in 2017
Most Test wins in a season:
 Season Matches Win Loss Drawn Win %
 Australia 2005-06 12 11 0 1 91.66
 Australia 1999-00 10 10 0 0 100.00
 India 2016-17 13 10 1 2 76.92
 Australia 2004-05 12 9 1 2 75.00
 South Africa 2007-08 12 8 2 2 66.66

 Sides losing most Tests in India:
 Team Matches Won Lost Tied Drawn Win % Loss %
 Australia 50 13 21 1 15 26.00 42.00
 England 60 13 19 0 28 21.67 31.67
 New Zealand 34 2 16 0 16 5.88 47.06
 West Indies 45 14 11 0 20 31.11 24.44
 Sri Lanka 17 0 10 0 7 0.00 58.82
 South Africa 16 5 8 0 3 31.25 50.00
 Pakistan 33 5 7 0 21 15.15 21.21
 Zimbabwe 5 0 4 0 1 0.00 80.00
 Bangladesh 1 0 1 0 0 0.00 100.00

 Winning a Test on captaincy debut:
 Captain Opponent Venue Season
 Polly Umrigar New Zealand Mumbai 1955-56
 Sunil Gavaskar New Zealand Auckland 1975-76
 Ravi Shastri West Indies Chennai 1987-88
 Sachin Tendulkar Australia Delhi 1996-97
 Sourav Ganguly Bangladesh Dhaka 2000-01
 Virender Sehwag Sri Lanka Ahmedabad 2005-06
 Anil Kumble Pakistan Delhi 2007-08
 MS Dhoni South Africa Kanpur 2007-08
 Ajinkya Rahane Australia Dharamsala 2016-17

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