Tour of Australia 1985-86           Captain: Kapil Dev
	India's 25th Test tour   FifthTest-playing tour of  Australia by India      (November 1985 -             February 1986)	The selectors wished to select a team of sixteen to play the Tests and replace two of them for the Benson and Hedges series but the Board disagreed thinking it might affect team morale, so this did not happen until many years later India had the best of all three Test matches but could not force a victory partly because of wet weather but also through not forcing the pace of the matches when on top. The tourists also felt wronged by umpiring decisions. Kapil Dev called Australian umpires the worst in the world after a number of controversial decisions in the Second Test, but the manager later made an apology to the umpires.	Other Indian tours   Previous tour Sri Lanka 1985   Next tour England 1986   Next tour of Australia 1991-92
	Members of the Test tour  party (16)       Openers:Sunil Gavaskar, Kris Srikkanth Middle-order batsmen: Mohinder Amarnath, Mohammad Azharuddin, Dilip Vengsarkar, Ashok Malhotra Wicket-keeper:Syed Kirmani, Kiran More Spin bowlers : Shivlal Yadav, Ravi Shastri, Laxman Sivaramakrishnan. Fast bowlers:  Kapil Dev, Roger Binny, Rajinder Singh Ghai, Raju Kulkarni, Chetan Sharma.	M B Amarnath D 35 RHB   RM   Mohammad Azharuddin Hd 22 RHB   R M H Binny K 30 RHB    RM   S M Gavaskar B 36 RHB  opener   R S Ghai Pj 25 RFM   Kapil Dev Hy 26 captain   RHB    RFM   S M H Kirmani K 35 WK   R R Kulkarni B 23 RFM   A O Malhotra Hy 28 RHB   K S More Ba 23 second WK   Chetan Sharma Hy 19 RFM   R J Shastri B 23 vice-captain   RHB   SLA   L Sivaramakrishnan TN 19 LBG   K Srikkanth TN 26 RHB opener   D B Vengsarkar B 29 RHB   N S Yadav Hd 28 OB	Representation of teams:     Ba  - Baroda (1) B   -  Bombay (4) D  -  Delhi (1) Hy – Haryana (3) Hd  -  Hyderabad (2) K  -  Karnataka (2) Pj  - Punjab (1) TN - Tamil Nadu (2)         Average age of  team at time of first Test match  (13 December 1985) :    27 yrs  3 months
	Test Appearances made before the tour	Gavaskar 109,  Kirmani 85,  Vengsarkar 79,  Kapil Dev 71,  Amarnath 51,  Shastri 37,  Yadav 23,  Binny 19,  Srikkanth 11,  Chetan Sharma 8,  Malhotra 7,  Sivaramakrishnan 7,  Azharuddin 6,  Ghai 0,  Kulkarni 0,   More 0.
	Team Officials	S.Venkataraghaven Tour Manager Niranjan Shah Assistant Manager    ? Physiotherapist Dr Umapathy Honorary doctor
	Selectors	C G Borde (chairman),  Hanumant Singh,  Kripal Singh,  Ambar Roy and M M Sood.
	Selection	Unavailable :  Sandeep Patil. Kapil Dev was appointed to the captaincy on 27 October 1985. Gavaskar wrote to the Chairman of Selectors asking to bat in the middle order, but he was chosen as an opener. The team was chosen at the end of the Rest of India-Bombay match and would represent India in both the Rothman’s Sharjah Cup and the tour of Australia. Tour Party Announced : 28 October 1985. Near Miss:   C Pandit, A O Malhotra. The following were dropped from the team that had recently returned from Sri Lanka:  S Viswanath, Gopal Sharma, Maninder Singh, Lalchand Rajput.	Time between selection and departure from India   28 days  (28 October - 25 November)
	Travel	A strenuous one-week training camp at Wankhede Stadium was broken off for a short Deepavali vacation. The team reassembled in Bombay’s Sahar Airport and arrived in Sharjah late in the evening of 16 November, to play two 45-over matches in the Rothman’s Sharjah Cup. In order to get a little more time in Bombay before leaving for Australia, the team flew out of Dubai on Friday night 22 November soon after their second match and the ceremonial championship dinner. The team was seen off again from Bombay Airport by Mr S Sriraman, the President of BCCI, on 25 November. They arrived in Melbourne on 26 November, then flew to Canberra.	Time spent in Australia    76 days (26 November - 10? February)
	On-tour selection committee	Kapil Dev (captain),  Ravi Shastri (vice-captain),  S Venkataraghaven(manager)
	Reinforcements	The manager, S Venkataraghaven, played against Australian Country XI.
	Fixtures/Results	† Canberra Australian Capital Territory Abandoned Adelaide South Australia Won 4 w † Warnambool Victoria Country XI Won 6 w Melbourne Victoria Drawn ADELAIDE AUSTRALIA  First Test DRAWN Hobart Tasmania Abandoned MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA Second Test DRAWN SYDNEY AUSTRALIA  Third Test DRAWN § Brisbane New Zealand 1st ODI Won 5 w § Brisbane Australia 2nd ODI Lost 4 w § Melbourne Australia 3rd ODI Won 8 w § Perth New Zealand 4th ODI Lost 3 w § Sydney Australia 5th ODI Lost 100 r § Melbourne New Zealand 6th ODI Lost 5 w § Adelaide New Zealand 7th ODI Won 5 w § Adelaide Australia 8th ODI Lost 36 r † Adelaide Australian Country XI Won 5 w § Melbourne Australia 9th ODI Won 6 w § Launceston New Zealand 10th ODI Won on run rate § Sydney Australia (1st ODI Final) Lost 11 r § Melbourne Australia (2nd ODI Final ) Lost 7 w	† not first-class   §   one-day international ( Benson & Hedges World Series Cup)   Time spent in Australia before First Test:  17 days (26 November - 13 December)
	Test appearances on tour	3 -   Amarnath,  Azharuddin,  Gavaskar,  Kapil Dev,  Kirmani,  Shastri,  Srikkanth,  Vengsarkar,  Yadav. 2 -   Binny,  Chetan Sharma,  Sivaramakrishnan. 1 -   0 -   Ghai,  Kulkarni,  Malhotra,  More.
	Highlights	•    Kapil Dev took 8 wickets for 106 runs at Adelaide: the best figures by an Indian in Tests overseas. •    Sunil Gavaskar (166*) carried his bat through the Indian innings in the first Test at at Adelaide •    At Sydney the first three Indian batsmen scored centuries: Gavaskar 172, Srikkanth 116, Amarnath 138, enabling India to declare at 600 for 4. The first wicket added 191 runs, the second 224. •    Gavaskar and Amarnath’s partnership was the highest for any Indian wicket against Australia.
	Tour Summary	P W L D Aban Test Matches   3 0 0 3 - Other first-class matches   3 1 0 1 1 Minor matches   3 2 0 0 1 One-day internationals 12 5 7 0 - All Matches 21 8 7 4 2
	Return to India	Last match 9 Feb 1986	Time away from India  approx 78 days    (25 November to 11? February)

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