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Indian team have been in sensational form in this calendar year in all formats of cricket, excitingly, all big names like skipper Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, and Jasprit Bumrah will be seen playing cricket for the first after the 2023 WC finals in the boxing day Test match which is set to happen at Centurion venue.
Here, in this article, we will look at how Team India has performed at Boxing Day Test matches in the past.
India in Boxing Day Test matches:
- Played - 17
- Won - 4
- Lost - 10
- Draw - 3
Indian team results on boxing day Test matches:
- Drawn vs Australia at Melbourne, 1985
- Drawn vs West Indies at Kolkata, 1987
- Lost to Australia by 8 wickets at Melbourne, 1991
- Lost to South Africa by 9 wickets at Gqeberha, 1992
- Lost to South Africa by 328 runs at Durban, 1996
- Lost to New Zealand by 4 wickets at Wellington, 1998
- Lost to Australia by 180 runs at Melbourne, 1999
- Lost to Australia by 9 wickets at Melbourne, 2003
- Lost to South Africa by 174 runs at Durban, 2006
- Lost to Australia by 337 runs at Melbourne, 2007
- Beat South Africa by 87 runs at Durban, 2010
- Lost to Australia by 122 runs at Melbourne, 2011
- Lost to South Africa by 10 wickets at Durban, 2013
- Drawn vs Australia at Melbourne, 2014
- Beat Australia by 137 runs at Melbourne, 2018
- Beat Australia by 8 wickets at Melbourne, 2020
- Beat South Africa by 113 runs at Centurion, 2021
Indian team doesn't have a great record in Boxing Day Test matches overall. Still, however, India has recently won their last 3 Boxing Day Test matches consecutively in 2018, 2020 & 2021 respectively.
