India will want the team’s batting to come awake during the fourth match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy , as the teams head to the Melbourne Cricket Ground for the traditional Boxing Day Test. It is a famous event in every Australian summer, and India has some very fond memories of matches played in Melbourne. Fans will be hoping that Rohit Sharma’s men can take inspiration from some of the best innings played at the historic ground.
Here are the top five highest scores by Indian players at the MCG. 1. Virender Sehwag: 195, 2003-04 A famous and memorable innings, Virender Sehwag took the attack to the Australian bowling in a brutal fashion at the MCG in this match.
In an innings which consisted of 130 runs off boundaries alone — 25 fours and 5 sixes — Sehwag lit up an exciting Boxing Day in Melbourne. He reached his century midway through the second session, but India collapsed from 278-1 to 366 all out, letting Australia take control of the match via a Ricky Ponting 257*. 2.
Virat Kohli: 169, 2014-15 Twin centuries in Adelaide, twin failures in Brisbane, and nobody was quite sure what to expect from Virat Kohli at the MCG. What resulted was Kohli playing the sort of innings that immediately memorialised his series as one of the finest a visiting batter has ever had in Australia. Kohli showed more of what fans have come to expect in Australia, looking extremely at home against the Aussie attack as he made sure India was undaunted by the hosts’ huge first innings scor.