Indian cricket team in Australia in 1985–86

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.

Indian cricket team in Australia in 1985–86
Date13 December 1985 – 9 February 1986
Location Australia
Result3-match series drawn 0–0
Teams
 Australia  India
Captains
Allan Border Kapil Dev
Most runs
David Boon (323) Sunil Gavaskar (356)
Most wickets
Bruce Reid (11) Shivlal Yadav (15)

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.

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