India Test record (results) at Adelaide

Adelaide is one of the important venues for Test cricket and is often considered one of the most picturesque grounds in the world. While Australian pitches are known for their speed and bounce, Adelaide offers a real surface that helps with hitting and we can easily score plenty of runs.

As for India, Adelaide is a permanent Test center when they tour Australia and has hosted 13 Tests here since 1948 so far. So, here are some records of the Indian Test team here over the years.

India’s Test record at Adelaide

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Key Statistics

2 – India played two Tests in Adelaide. While their first win came in the 2003-04 series, India recorded their second win at this stadium in the 2018-19 series.

3 – India have crossed the 500-run mark in an innings at this stadium three times, with the highest score of 526 coming in the 2008 series where Sachin Tendulkar scored a magnificent 153. Find out India’s highest ever test scores here.

36 – This venue recorded the lowest ever Test score in India and it happened in the famous 2020/21 series. The Men in Blue were bowled out for just 36 runs in the second innings of the Test and faced the loss of 8 wickets. Find out the ten lowest test scores of any team here.

298 – India’s highest defeat at his stadium came in 2011 when they lost by 298 runs thanks to first-innings double centuries from Michael Clarke (210) and Ricky Ponting (221). Check out the biggest wins in Test cricket by run margin here.

509 – The runs scored by Virat Kohli in Adelaide in Test cricket and this is the highest score by an Indian batter in 4 Tests. Rahul Dravid is next with 401 runs in Adelaide.

Only Kohli (3) And Vijay Hazare (2) have scored more than one Test century among Indian batters. Other batters who have scored a century in Adelaide are Virender Sehwag, Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar, Sandeep Patil, Dattu Padkar and Mohammad Azharuddin.

233 Rahul Dravid is the highest individual score recorded by an Indian batter in Adelaide, followed by Sandeep Patil’s 174 in 1981.

19 – Former Indian skipper Kapil Dev took the most wickets at this stadium. He has 19 scalps in 3 games, at an average of 23.10 with two five-wicket hauls, and 8/106, the best for an Indian in Adelaide.

He’s being watched closely Ravi Ashwin who took 16 wickets in three games in Adelaide. Apart from Kapil and Ashwin, Ajit Agarkar (13) and Anil Kumble (10) are the only Indian bowlers to scalp 10 or more wickets. Find out about R Ashwin’s Test bowling records across the country here.

6 – Number of Indian bowlers with five-wicket hauls in Adelaide in Tests. While Kapil Dev is the only one to do it twice, Agarkar, Kumble, Abid Ali, Bhagwat Chandrasekhar and RF Surti have done it once.

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