The Indian cricket team toured Australia from 8 to 31 January 2016 to play two tour matches, five One Day International (ODI) and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. The full schedule for the tour was announced by Cricket Australia on 9 July 2015.
Australia won the ODI series 4–1. The series broke the record for the most runs scored in a bilateral ODI series of five matches or fewer, with a total of 3,159. Eleven centuries were also scored in the ODI series, which was also a record. India won the T20I series 3–0 and became the number one ranked team in the ICC T20I Championship.
Squads ODIsT20Is Steve Smith (c) David Warner (vc) George Bailey Scott Boland James Faulkner Aaron Finch John Hastings Josh Hazlewood Usman Khawaja Nathan Lyon Mitchell Marsh Shaun Marsh Glenn Maxwell Joel Paris Kane Richardson Matthew Wade (wk) MS Dhoni (c) (wk) Virat Kohli (vc) Ravichandran Ashwin Jasprit Bumrah Rishi Dhawan Shikhar Dhawan Ravindra Jadeja Manish Pandey Axar Patel Ajinkya Rahane Mohammed Shami Ishant Sharma Rohit Sharma Gurkeerat Singh Barinder Sran Umesh Yadav Bhuvneshwar Kumar Aaron Finch (c) Shane Watson (vc) Cameron Bancroft (wk) Scott Boland Cameron Boyce James Faulkner John Hastings Travis Head Chris Lynn Nathan Lyon Shaun Marsh Glenn Maxwell Kane Richardson Steve Smith Shaun Tait Andrew Tye Matthew Wade (wk) David Warner MS Dhoni (c) (wk) Virat Kohli (vc) Ravichandran Ashwin Jasprit Bumrah Rishi Dhawan Shikhar Dhawan Ravindra Jadeja Bhuvneshwar Kumar Ashish Nehra Hardik Pandya Suresh Raina Ajinkya Rahane Mohammed Shami Rohit Sharma Gurkeerat Singh Harbhajan Singh Yuvraj Singh Umesh Yadav
Mohammed Shami was ruled out of the tour with a hamstring injury. He was replaced by Bhuvneshwar Kumar for the ODI matches and Jasprit Bumrah for the T20I matches. John Hastings was added to Australia's squad to replace Mitchell Marsh for the second ODI. Usman Khawaja was added to Australia's squad to replace David Warner for the second and third ODIs who left the group on paternity leave. Nathan Lyon and David Warner were added to Australia's squad for the 4th and 5th ODIs. Joel Paris and Usman Khawaja were both dropped. Bhuvneshwar Kumar was ruled out of the T20 series due to a thumb injury. He was replaced in the squad by Rishi Dhawan. Cameron Bancroft was added to Australia's squad for the third T20I as a replacement for Matthew Wade. Shane Watson replaced Aaron Finch as captain of Australia's team for the last T20I match, due to Finch being injured.
Tour matches T20: Western Australia XI v Indians
One Day: Western Australia XI v Indians
ODI series
1st ODI
2nd ODI
3rd ODI
4th ODI
5th ODI
T20I series 1st T20I
2nd T20I
3rd T20I
References
External links Series home at ESPNcricinfo