The
India national cricket team
The India men's national cricket team, also known as Men in Blue, represents India in international cricket. It is governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India and is a full member nation of the International Cricket Council with ...
toured
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...
in the 1977–78 season to play 5
Test matches. Australia won the test series 3–2. The matches were played at the same time as the first
World Series Cricket
World Series Cricket (WSC) was a commercial professional cricket competition staged between 1977 and 1979 which was organised by Kerry Packer and his Australian television network, Nine Network. WSC ran in commercial competition to established ...
matches.
Test series
1st Test
2nd Test
3rd Test
4th Test
5th Test
Annual reviews
*
Playfair Cricket Annual
''Playfair Cricket Annual'' is a compact annual about cricket that is published in the United Kingdom each April, just before the English cricket season is due to begin. It has been published every year since 1948. Its main purposes are to revie ...
1978
*
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', or simply ''Wisden'', colloquially the Bible of Cricket, is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom. The description "Bible of cricket" (or variations thereof) has been applied to ''Wi ...
1978
Further reading
* Chris Harte, ''A History of Australian Cricket'', Andre Deutsch, 1993
*
Ramachandra Guha
Ramachandra "Ram" Guha (born 29 April 1958) is an Indian historian, environmentalist, writer and public intellectual whose research interests include social, political, contemporary, environmental and cricket history. He is an important autho ...
, ''A Corner of a Foreign Field - An Indian History of a British Sport'', Picador, 2001
References
External sources
India in Australia, 1977/78at
ESPNcricinfo
ESPNcricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket. The site features news, articles, live coverage of cricket matches (including liveblogs and scorecards), and ''StatsGuru'', a ...
archive
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1977 in Australian cricket
1977 in Indian cricket
1977–78 Australian cricket season
1978 in Australian cricket
1978 in Indian cricket
1977-78
International cricket competitions from 1975–76 to 1980
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