After the successful test match series against England, Team India will face the mighty Aussies at home. For Australia this year has been not so great for them, as their series loss to Sri Lanka and South Africa (at home) will hurt them when they look back at 2016. India on the other hand will cherish their winning memories. They are the only team who did not lose any test match in the year of 2016.

Steve Smith's men will take on Virat Kohli's army from February 23, 2017. Aussies are touring for four-match test series.

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Match/Series Schedule: India Vs Australia Test Series -

Dates: Thursday February 23 2017 to Wednesday March 29, 2017.

Schedule and Venues -

• 1st Test - Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune on 23rd February to 27th February

• 2nd Test - M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore on 4th March to 8th March.

• 3rd Test - JSCA International Stadium Complex, Ranchi on 16th March to 20th March.

• 4th Test- Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharmasala on 25th March to 29th

Time: 09:00 am to 5:00 PM local time

Online Live Streaming : Hotstar | TV Live broadcast : Star Sports Network

Head to Head India Vs Australia-

• This series will be the test for the new captains.

• Steve Smith will captaining his side in India the first time in his captaincy career.

• Last time when Australia toured India in 2012, they were whitewashed 4-

• Leading Run Scorers for India and Australia in test are Virat Kohli, Murali Vijay, Cheteshwar Purjara, AJinkya Rahane for India and Steve Smith, Usman Khawaja, David Warner and Adam Voges for Australia.

• Leading wicket-takers for India and Australia in tests are R Ashwin, R Jadeja, Umesh Yadav, Jayant Yadav for India and Mitchel Starc, Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon and Bird for Australia.

• Australia's record in recent times hasn’t been good. They lost to Sri Lanka in their home turf very

• Steve Smith's captaincy record is even worse. His side has not won a single match in the sub-continent. His captaincy and batting will tested in these unfamiliar conditions.

• Australia will firmly depend on Warner, Smith, Starc and Lyon.

• India on the other hand will take all the positives from the unbeaten 2016.

• Virat's army will look to win this series and continue to be unbeaten in 2017 as well.

• Jayant Yadav will have to do more with bat and ball in this test series also.

• India should sort the injury issues before this series

• India can beat the Australians 4-0 again. If they do it they will be the first to white wash Australia in consecutive years.