First tour: when three batsmen surprised everyone by hitting back to back centuries

The Indian team, which has been away from international cricket for a long time due to the Wid-19 epidemic, will return to the same ground against strong rival Australia. The two teams will play a three-day, three T20 and four-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test series from November 27. This series is like saving a nose for both teams. In such a situation, both teams want to dominate this test series. Let’s look at the cricket history between India and Australia.

The India-Australia match started in the year 1947. In the same year, India also got independence from British rule. The Indian team, led by Lala Amarnath, went on a tour of Australia for a four-match Test series. However, Team India suffered a major defeat 0–4 on that tour. But in this series, there were many good performances from both teams.

The talk was about some of the best innings played in that series, which always became a mishle for the batsmen. The Indian batsmen performed well in this series. He made a great batsman on a shallow pitch. Not one or two but three-century innings were played by India. It was a surprise for Australian bowlers. Along with Veenu Mankad and Vijay Hazare, Dattu Phadkar also enhanced India’s reputation by playing a century. However, the most spectacular was the innings of Don Bradman, who tested the Indian bowlers in the first test itself.

Don Bradman, 185 runs: The first match of the Test series was played in Brisbane. Sir Don Bradman had excellent innings of 185 runs in this match. The Indian bowlers could not do anything in front of their rhythmic innings. The condition of this match was that Bradman had a partnership with the batsmen as well as his partnership with the bowlers was also fantastic. Bradman’s marathon innings ended by Lala Amarnath, whose hit on the ball became wicket.

Vijay Hazare, 116 runs: In the fourth match played in Adelaide, Australia scored 674 runs in the first innings. Bradman scored 201 and Lindsey Hassett scored 198 not out. India did not have a good start. India lost their total of five wickets at 133. After this, right-handed batsman Vijay Hazare played a brilliant inning. He and Dattu Phadkar added 188 runs for the sixth wicket. But the batsman who made headlines was Hazare, who scored 116 runs while batting class.

Vinod Mankad, 111 runs: Bradman’s team dominance continued in the fifth and final test played in Melbourne. Australia declared their first innings for 573 for eight wickets. It was only three runs on the scoreboard that India lost their opener Chandu Sarwate. Mankad, who came with him to start the innings, took over the responsibility of the innings and along with Hemu Adhikari took the team out of the crisis. They added 124 runs for the second wicket. The officials were able to score 38 runs from 202 balls. Hazare once again came out to bat and supported Mankad, who scored his second century in the series. Batting five hours, Mankad scored 111 runs.