Indian Cricket Team
The Indian cricket team will play the first match of the 2-match Test series against South Africa from 26th December. This test match between the two teams will be played at the Super Sports Park in Centurion. Before the start of the Test series, Team India also played an intra squad match to strengthen its preparations so that it can adapt itself to the conditions there. In the Test series, the Indian team will come out on the field with its full strength in which Rohit Sharma will be seen handling the captaincy of the team, apart from this, Jasprit Bumrah will be seen in Test cricket after a long time in bowling.
India did not have any special record in Boxing Day Test
The Test match between India and South Africa, starting the day after Christmas, is also known as Boxing Day. For the first time on this day, a Test match was played between Australia and England in the year 1950 and then from the year 1980, Australia and South Africa continued to play Test matches on Boxing Day in the cricket world. India also played the Boxing Day Test during the tours of these two countries, in which some special records of theirs have not been seen till now. Team India has played a total of 16 Boxing-Day Tests, the first of which was in the year 1985. The Indian team has won the Boxing-Day Test match 4 times, while they had to face defeat in 10 and 2 matches ended in a draw.
See here the match results of India’s Boxing Day Test matches played so far.
Australia vs India – Year 1985, Match Draw
Australia vs India – Year 1991, Australia won by 8 wickets
South Africa vs India – Year 1992, South Africa won by 9 wickets
South Africa vs India – Year 1996, South Africa won by 328 runs
New Zealand vs India – Year 1998, New Zealand won by 4 wickets
Australia vs India – Year 1999, Australia won by 180 runs
Australia vs India – Year 2003, Australia won by 9 wickets
South Africa vs India – Year 2006, South Africa won by 174 runs
Australia vs India – Year 2007, Australia won by 337 runs
South Africa vs India – Year 2010, India won by 87 runs
Australia vs India – Year 2011, Australia won by 122 runs
South Africa vs India – Year 2013, South Africa won by 10 wickets
Australia vs India – Year 2014, Match Draw
Australia vs India – Year 2018, India won by 137 runs
Australia vs India – Year 2020, India won by 8 wickets
South Africa vs India – Year 2021, India won by 113 runs
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