Indian cricket team in Australia in 2018–19 should not be confused with Australian cricket team in India in 2018–19.
| Series Name: | Indian cricket team in Australia in 2018–19 |
| Team1 Image: | Flag of Australia.svg |
| Team1 Name: | Australia |
| Team2 Image: | Flag of India.svg |
| Team2 Name: | India |
| From Date: | 21 November 2018 |
| To Date: | 18 January 2019 |
| Team1 Captain: | Tim Paine (Tests) Aaron Finch (T20Is & ODIs) |
| Team2 Captain: | Virat Kohli |
| No Of Tests: | 4 |
| Team1 Tests Won: | 1 |
| Team2 Tests Won: | 2 |
| Team1 Tests Most Runs: | Marcus Harris (258)[1] |
| Team2 Tests Most Runs: | Cheteshwar Pujara (521) |
| Team1 Tests Most Wickets: | Nathan Lyon (21)[2] |
| Team2 Tests Most Wickets: | Jasprit Bumrah (21) |
| Player Of Test Series: | Cheteshwar Pujara (Ind) |
| No Of Odis: | 3 |
| Team1 Odis Won: | 1 |
| Team2 Odis Won: | 2 |
| Team1 Odis Most Runs: | Shaun Marsh (224)[3] |
| Team2 Odis Most Runs: | MS Dhoni (193) |
| Team1 Odis Most Wickets: | Jhye Richardson (6)[4] |
| Team2 Odis Most Wickets: | Bhuvneshwar Kumar (8) |
| Player Of Odi Series: | MS Dhoni (Ind) |
| No Of Twenty20s: | 3 |
| Team1 Twenty20s Won: | 1 |
| Team2 Twenty20s Won: | 1 |
| Team1 Twenty20s Most Runs: | Glenn Maxwell (78)[5] |
| Team2 Twenty20s Most Runs: | Shikhar Dhawan (117) |
| Team1 Twenty20s Most Wickets: | Adam Zampa (3)[6] |
| Team2 Twenty20s Most Wickets: | Krunal Pandya (5) |
| Player Of Twenty20 Series: | Shikhar Dhawan (Ind) |
The India cricket team toured Australia from November 2018 to January 2019 to play four Tests, three One Day Internationals (ODIs) and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches.[7] [8] [9] [10] Initially, the Test match at the Adelaide Oval was planned to be a day/night fixture, but the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) declined the offer from Cricket Australia to play the match under lights.[11] In April 2018, the Western Australian Cricket Association confirmed that the Perth Stadium would host its first ever Test match.[12] During the second Test, it became the tenth venue in Australia to host a Test match.[13]
India's regular wicket-keeper for limited overs matches, MS Dhoni, was not named in the side's squad for the T20I fixtures for this series and the ones against the West Indies.[14] Instead, India's Test wicket-keeper, Rishabh Pant, was selected in Dhoni's place.[15] The T20I series was drawn 1–1, after the second match finished in a no result.[16] India won the Test series 2–1, after the fourth match of the series finished as a draw.[17] India became the first Asian team to win a Test series in Australia.[18] [19]
In the ODI series that followed, Australia won the first match by 34 runs, recording their 1,000th win in international cricket.[20] However, India went on to win the next two games, and consequently the series 2–1;[21] in the process recording their first bilateral ODI series victory in Australia.[22] [23]
Mitchell Starc was added to Australia's T20I squad for the third match, replacing Billy Stanlake, who was injured.[30] Prithvi Shaw was ruled out of India's Test squad due to injury and was replaced by Mayank Agarwal.[31] Hardik Pandya was also added to India's squad for the last two Test matches.[32] Marnus Labuschagne was added to Australia's squad for the fourth Test.[33] Jasprit Bumrah was rested for the ODI series and was replaced by Mohammed Siraj in India's squad.[34] Mitchell Marsh was ruled out of Australia's squad for the first ODI due to illness and was replaced by Ashton Turner.[35]
On 11 January 2019, Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul were suspended by the BCCI following controversial comments they made on the Indian talk show Koffee with Karan earlier in the month.[36] They were ruled out of the ODI series of this tour, and all of the fixtures of India's tour to New Zealand.[37] Vijay Shankar was added to India's ODI squad as a replacement.[38]
See main article: Border–Gavaskar Trophy. Entering the series, India held the Border–Gavaskar Trophy after winning the 2017 series 2–1. Australia won the previous series at home 2–0 in 2014–15.
An Australian docu-series - The Test was produced, following the Australian national cricket team in the aftermath of the Australian ball tampering scandal.[39] The third and fourth episodes of Season 1 featured Australia playing the 4 tests against India.