Australia Vs India 1985-86
New Zealand was only the third country to beat Australia at home after England and the West Indies and India looked set to be come the fourth. They made scores of 520, 445, 59/2 and 600/4 in the Tests and Matthews suffered with the other Australian bowlers, taking only two wickets (118.00) in the series. In the Second Test at Melbourne he came in at 109/5 and made 100 not out adding 46 for the last wicket with his New South Wales team-mate Dave Gilbert (4) - who came in when Matthews was 59 - to hoist the Australian total up to 262. Lacklustre Indian batting and late rain saved the match after Allan Border (163) and Gilbert (10 not out) made a reargaurd action in the second innings. Though they outplayed Australia in all three Tests this was the nearest Inida came to winning a Test and the series.
Read more about this topic: Greg Matthews
Famous quotes containing the words australia and/or india:
“It is very considerably smaller than Australia and British Somaliland put together. As things stand at present there is nothing much the Texans can do about this, and ... they are inclined to shy away from the subject in ordinary conversation, muttering defensively about the size of oranges.”
—Alex Atkinson, British humor writer. repr. In Present Laughter, ed. Alan Coren (1982)
“There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.”
—Indira Gandhi (1917–1984)