5 Best performers in the India v Australia ODI contest

In recent times if we have to pick India’s toughest opponent in any form of the game then that surely has to be Australia. In recent times, we have seen many closer contests between both the countries and that has produced immense excitement.

Both the teams were in their golden phase in the 2000s while Australia dominated the world, India gave them the toughest fightback. Legends from both the nations have enjoyed this particular opponent more than any we saw Ricky Ponting at his best against India and similar was the case with Sachin Tendulkar against Australia.

1. Sachin Tendulkar

If we are talking about ODI battles between India and Australia, we cannot simply start the talk without making a mention to Sachin Tendulkar. Master blaster played many memorable innings against Australia and helped India to win matches from nowhere. One cannot forget Sachin’s innings of 131 runs against Australia at Sharjah while chasing a target of 272 runs where he smashed Australian bowlers out of the park and helped India clinch the final of Coca Cola Cup.

Similar to this, he had also played a match winning innings of 117* runs in the final match of CB series against Australia to help India win the final match and it was also his first ODI hundred in Australia. He is at the first position in the list on the back of his remarkable performances.

He scored 3077 runs from 71 matches against Australia which is most by any other batsman in the world against Australia. He also scored nine centuries and fifteen half-centuries against them in ODIs.