India vs Australia, 1st Test Stats Preview: Players records and approaching milestones

India will face Australia in the 16^th edition of the famous Border-Gavaskar Trophy starting on February 9 at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur.

India will look to continue their home dominance as they have been victorious in the last 15 home series. The only worry in the Indian dressing room will be Virat Kohli's form in Tests since December 2019 at home, as he  just averages 26.27 in 11 innings.

In the WTC 2021-23, Cheteshwar Pujara has been the second-highest leading run-scorer for India the runs chart for India with 747 at an average of 33.95; followed by Shreyas Iyer with 624 runs at an average of 56.72. In the bowling department, Ravichandran Ashwin has been impressive with 36 wickets, followed by Mohammad Shami with 32 scalps. India will be missing the services of key material in Rishabh Pant and the bowling spearhead in Jasprit Bumrah.

Australia, on the other hand, have enjoyed the away series in the WTC 2021-23 cycle. They played two of the away series' in Asia against Pakistan winning 1-0 and against Sri Lanka, drew the series 1-1.

Australia are now one foot away from the final berth in WTC 2021-23. Usman Khawaja has been magnificent in the WTC 2021-23 with 1275 runs at an average of 79.68, he is followed by Marnus Labuschagne with 1265 runs at an average of 57.50. In the bowling department, Nathan Lyon has been leading with 61 scalps followed by Pat Cummins with 50 scalps.

Meanwhile let us look at the stats and numbers ahead of first Test between India and Australia - 

India vs Australia Head-to-Head in Test: Both India and Australia have met on 102 occasions in which Australia have been on the winning side for 43 occasions and India Winning on 30 occasions, one match ended in Tie and 28 matches ended in draw.

In India, both have played 50 games and India being victorious in 21 games and Australia have won 13 games. One game ended in Tie and 15 games ended in draw.

64 - Virat Kohli (24936) needs 64 runs to complete 25000 runs across formats.

6 - Nathan Lyon (94) needs six wickets to complete 100 wickets in Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

2 - Nathan Lyon (98) needs two wickets to complete 100 international wickets against India.

1 - Ravichandran Ashwin (449) needs one wicket to complete the milestone of 450 wickets in Test Cricket.

1 - Ravindra Jadeja (49) requires one wicket to complete 50 wickets in Border-Gavaskar Trophy at home.

1 - Steve Smith (8) needs one century to equal Sachin Tendulkar for most centuries in Border-Gavaskar Trophy

4 - Mohammed Siraj (46) needs four scalps to achieve the milestone of 50 wickets in Test cricket.

11 - Shubman Gill (89) requires 11 fours to complete 100 fours in Red ball cricket.

1 - Shubman Gill (49) requires one six to reach the milestone of 50 sixes in International Cricket.

3 - Axar Patel (47) needs three scalps to achieve the milestone of 50 wickets in Tests.

8 - Ravindra Jadeja (242) needs eight wickets to complete 250 wickets in Test Cricket.

5 - Usman Khawaja (445) needs 5 fours to complete milestone of 450 fours in Tests.

6 - Marnus Labuschagne (394) requires six fours to complete 400 fours across formats.

66 - Peter Handscomb (934) requires 66 runs to complete 1000 runs in Tests.

10 - Nathan Lyon (490) needs ten wickets to complete 500 international wickets.

1 - Steven Smith (49) is one six away from reaching 50 maximums in Tests.