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toured Australia in the 1980–81 season to play 3

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es. The series was drawn 1-1.

Test series summary

First Test

Second Test

Third Test

ODI series

India also competed in a tri-nation ODI tournament involving Australia and

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. India won three of their ten-round robin matches but failed to qualify for the five-match final in which Australia defeated New Zealand 3–1.

Annual reviews

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1981

References

External sources

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