Australia v India, Brisbane

Australia 445/10 & 89/7

India 260/10 & 8/0

Match drawn

Australia v India 2024 · 3rd Test Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane, Brisbane 14–18 Dec 2024

How hard each side found the batting

Uneven — India had it tougher than Australia.

Australia

0.93× -7%

India

0.81× -19%

harder to scoretypicaleasier

The lead

Australia's margin flattered them — conditions did some of the work.

Who won it · by value

Runs, and what they were worth in these conditions

TM Head Australia

169 +251

RA Jadeja India

77 +193

KL Rahul India

88 +174

AT Carey Australia

90 +168

Steve Smith Australia

105 +134

Best bowling

Top match figures

JJ Bumrah6/76

PJ Cummins4/81

JJ Bumrah3/18

MA Starc3/83

Top score

152

TM Head · Australia

Biggest stand

241

4th wkt · Australia

Worst collapse

4–22

4 wkts for 22 · Australia

Match facts

TossIndia, field

ResultMatch drawn

Length5 days

Australia

445 /10 (117.1 ov)

Batter		R	B	4s	6s	SR
UT Khawaja	c RR Pant b JJ Bumrah	21	54	3	0	38.89
NA McSweeney	c Virat Kohli b JJ Bumrah	9	49	1	0	18.37
M Labuschagne	c Virat Kohli b Nithish Kumar Reddy	12	55	0	0	21.82
Steve Smith	c Rohit Sharma b JJ Bumrah	101	190	12	0	53.16
TM Head	c RR Pant b JJ Bumrah	152	160	18	0	95.00
MR Marsh	c Virat Kohli b JJ Bumrah	5	16	0	0	31.25
AT Carey	c Shubman Gill b Akash Deep	70	88	7	2	79.55
PJ Cummins	c RR Pant b Mohammed Siraj	20	33	2	0	60.61
MA Starc	c RR Pant b JJ Bumrah	18	30	1	1	60.00
NM Lyon	b Mohammed Siraj	2	30	0	0	6.67
JR Hazlewood*	not out	0	3	0	0	0.00

Extras 35 (lb 17, w 13, nb 5)

Total 445/10 (117.1 ov)

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
JJ Bumrah	28.0	9	76	6	2.71
Mohammed Siraj	23.2	5	97	2	4.16
Akash Deep	29.5	7	95	1	3.18
Nithish Kumar Reddy	13.0	1	65	1	5.00
RA Jadeja	23.0	2	95	0	4.13

Fall of wickets

1-31 (UT Khawaja, 16.1)·2-38 (NA McSweeney, 18.3)·3-75 (M Labuschagne, 33.2)·4-316 (Steve Smith, 82.6)·5-326 (MR Marsh, 86.2)·6-327 (TM Head, 86.5)·7-385 (PJ Cummins, 97.6)·8-423 (MA Starc, 105.6)·9-445 (NM Lyon, 116.3)·10-445 (AT Carey, 117.1)

India

260 /10 (78.5 ov)

Batter		R	B	4s	6s	SR
YBK Jaiswal	c MR Marsh b MA Starc	4	2	1	0	200.00
Shubman Gill	c MR Marsh b MA Starc	1	3	0	0	33.33
KL Rahul	c Steve Smith b NM Lyon	84	139	8	0	60.43
Virat Kohli	c AT Carey b JR Hazlewood	3	16	0	0	18.75
RR Pant	c AT Carey b PJ Cummins	9	12	0	0	75.00
Rohit Sharma	c AT Carey b PJ Cummins	10	27	2	0	37.04
RA Jadeja	c MR Marsh b PJ Cummins	77	123	7	1	62.60
Nithish Kumar Reddy	b PJ Cummins	16	61	1	0	26.23
Mohammed Siraj	c AT Carey b MA Starc	1	11	0	0	9.09
JJ Bumrah*	not out	10	38	0	1	26.32
Akash Deep	st AT Carey b TM Head	31	44	2	1	70.45

Extras 14 (b 8, lb 2, w 1, nb 3)

Total 260/10 (78.5 ov)

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
MA Starc	24.0	3	83	3	3.46
JR Hazlewood	6.0	2	22	1	3.67
PJ Cummins	22.0	2	81	4	3.68
NM Lyon	23.0	1	55	1	2.39
TM Head	1.5	0	3	1	1.64
MR Marsh	2.0	0	6	0	3.00

Fall of wickets

1-4 (YBK Jaiswal, 0.2)·2-6 (Shubman Gill, 2.1)·3-22 (Virat Kohli, 7.2)·4-44 (RR Pant, 13.5)·5-74 (Rohit Sharma, 23.3)·6-141 (KL Rahul, 42.3)·7-194 (Nithish Kumar Reddy, 59.5)·8-201 (Mohammed Siraj, 62.6)·9-213 (RA Jadeja, 65.6)·10-260 (Akash Deep, 78.5)

Australia

89 /7 (18.0 ov)

Batter		R	B	4s	6s	SR
NA McSweeney	c RR Pant b Akash Deep	4	25	0	0	16.00
UT Khawaja	b JJ Bumrah	8	7	2	0	114.29
M Labuschagne	c RR Pant b JJ Bumrah	1	9	0	0	11.11
MR Marsh	c RR Pant b Akash Deep	2	13	0	0	15.38
TM Head	c RR Pant b Mohammed Siraj	17	19	2	0	89.47
Steve Smith	c RR Pant b Mohammed Siraj	4	5	1	0	80.00
AT Carey*	not out	20	20	2	0	100.00
PJ Cummins	c KL Rahul b JJ Bumrah	22	10	2	2	220.00
MA Starc*	not out	2	2	0	0	100.00

Extras 9 (b 1, lb 6, nb 2)

Total 89/7 (18.0 ov)

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
JJ Bumrah	6.0	1	18	3	3.00
Mohammed Siraj	7.0	0	36	2	5.14
Akash Deep	5.0	1	28	2	5.60

Fall of wickets

1-11 (UT Khawaja, 2.4)·2-16 (M Labuschagne, 6.2)·3-16 (NA McSweeney, 7.3)·4-28 (MR Marsh, 9.5)·5-33 (Steve Smith, 10.6)·6-60 (TM Head, 14.4)·7-85 (PJ Cummins, 17.1)

India

8 /0 (2.1 ov)

Batter		R	B	4s	6s	SR
YBK Jaiswal*	not out	4	6	0	0	66.67
KL Rahul*	not out	4	7	0	0	57.14

Extras 0

Total 8/0 (2.1 ov)

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
MA Starc	1.1	0	4	0	3.43
PJ Cummins	1.0	0	4	0	4.00