Close of Play

  • Mon, 19 Dec - day 1 - Indians 1st innings 162/4 (V Kohli 55*, RG Sharma 38*, 50 ov)
  • Tue, 20 Dec - day 2 - Cricket Australia Chairman's XI 1st innings 215/7 (TP Ludeman 16*, JK Lalor 0*, 59 ov)
  • Wed, 21 Dec - day 3 - Cricket Australia Chairman's XI 2nd innings 100/0 (30 ov) - end of match

Match Notes

India tour of Australia 2011-12 News

  • Seventy-eight days later

    From Brisbane to Sydney and back again. Must be the CB Series then

  • Ian v Greg at the Chappell backyard

    The Chappell brothers' has to be the ideal childhood, one every lover of cricket would commit heinous crimes to enjoy

  • 'Indians weren't really interested in Test cricket' - Greg Chappell

    Greg Chappell, India's former coach, has said that India "weren't really in Test cricket" on their tour to Australia, and that "Test cricket is pretty tough for them"

  • Time for Tendulkar to introspect

    Ian Chappell, writing in Mid-Day , says as India's tour of Australia wore on, Tendulkar's form deteriorated; the Australian bowlers eventually got inside his mind and along with thoughts of his century this was too much for him to process.

  • Player-media rift not good for Indian cricket

    Boria Majumdar, writing in the Times of India , says the time has come for the BCCI to have a proper media policy and appoint a professional media manager following differences emerging between the press and the players during the Australian tour.