1996–97 Border–Gavaskar Trophy

The Australian cricket team toured India in October 1996 for a one-off Test match.^[1]

1997–98 Border–Gavaskar Trophy
Date	5 October – 14 October 1996
Location	India
Result	India won the 1-match series 1–0
Player of the series	Nayan Mongia
Teams  Australia  India Captains Mark Taylor Sachin Tendulkar Most runs Steve Waugh (93) Nayan Mongia (152) Most wickets Paul Reiffel (5) Anil Kumble (9)
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Squads

Australia[2]	India[3]
Mark Taylor (c) Michael Slater Ricky Ponting Mark Waugh Steve Waugh Michael Bevan Ian Healy (wk) Brad Hogg Paul Reiffel Peter McIntyre Glenn McGrath	Sachin Tendulkar (c) Nayan Mongia (wk) Vikram Rathour Sourav Ganguly Mohammad Azharuddin Rahul Dravid Sunil Joshi Aashish Kapoor Anil Kumble David Johnson Venkatesh Prasad

Tour match

5–7 October Scorecard

Australians	v	Indian Board President's XI
358/8d (91 overs) Michael Bevan 100* (99) Dodda Ganesh 5/103 (21 overs)		262 (79.5 overs) Pankaj Dharmani 130* (170) Mark Waugh 6/68 (16.5 overs)
99/2 (32 overs) Mark Taylor 41 (77) David Johnson 1/23 (10 overs)

Match drawn Dhruve Pandove Stadium, Patiala Umpires: Subroto Porel (Ind) and Ivaturi Shivram (Ind)

• Australians won the toss and elected to bat.

Only Test

10–13 October 1996 Scorecard

Australia	v	India
182 (73 overs) Michael Slater 44 (96) Anil Kumble 4/63 (24 overs)		361 (131.4 overs) Nayan Mongia 152 (366) Paul Reiffel 3/35 (17 overs)
234 (108.3 overs) Steve Waugh 67* (221) Anil Kumble 5/67 (41 overs)		58/3 (13.2 overs) Sourav Ganguly 21* (29) Paul Reiffel 2/24 (6 overs)

India won by 7 wickets Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi Umpires: Peter Willey (Eng) and Srinivas Venkataraghavan (Ind) Player of the match: Nayan Mongia (Ind)

• Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
• Brad Hogg (Aus) and David Johnson (Ind) both made their Test debuts.