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Interesting Cricket trivia about India's first tour of Australia in 1947-48. Lala Amarnath was the captain of the

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00:00Team India is in Australia to play the Test Series.

00:03The cricket history of Australia and India is very old.

00:07Do you know when Team India went to Australia to play the Test Series for the first time?

00:13In 1947-48.

00:16Yes, that much earlier.

00:17And what all happened in that series?

00:20The Australia-India Series of 1947-48.

00:32And the most special thing was that it was the first cricket team of independent India.

00:37Because a few days ago, the country got independence.

00:41The second interesting thing is that Team India went to Australia by flight.

00:45In today's time, this will seem common to you.

00:48But this was the first team that went to Australia to play any series by flight.

00:54This is a very unique thing in that era.

00:57And Team India was playing a Test match against Australia for the first time.

01:01Before that, Team India played all 10 Test matches against England.

01:07And before the start of the Test matches, Team India played against all five states of Lala Amarnath.

01:15That is, Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland.

01:22And in Brisbane, Team India played a 4-day match against Sir Don Bradman's Australia XI.

01:30The two most important things of this match were

01:34Bill Brown was run out after giving a warning to Vinu Mankar to come out of the crease on the non-striker's head.

01:41Later, when he did the same in the Test match, the way to get out of it got the name of Mankat.

01:48And the second most important thing was that Don Bradman had scored his 100th wicket in the first-class ticket against Team India in this match.

01:57While Lala Amarnath was in excellent form in the Tour matches, he could not maintain his form in the Test matches.

02:05He was not able to make any special progress.

02:07Still, it was a record to make 1000 plus runs on this tour.

02:11It was a pity that this Test series against Australia, the first Tour of Independent India, was lost by 4-0.

02:22Bradman scored 715 runs with an average of 178.75 and scored more than 100 runs with Lin Sehasset.

02:30Vijay Hazare scored 429 runs for India.

02:34Only Don Bradman scored more than him in that series.

02:38Meanwhile, Vinu Mankar also scored 306 runs with 2 wickets and was at number 2 for Team India.

02:47But in all these years, everything has changed.

02:50Team India, which had lost its first series from Australia by 4-0, is one of the biggest teams in cricket today.

03:01And now the Test series against Australia is about to start.

03:05It will be a tough fight.

03:07However, in the last few years, especially in the Test matches, Team India's record against Australia has not been that good.

03:16Especially in the Test Championship final, Australia defeated Team India.

03:21You must remember the World Cup matches.

03:23That's why it's going to be very special.

03:25And Team India will have to work hard if they want to beat Australia at home.

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