In the red ball matches, team India hasn’t had great success. India has won just two series this year. One each against Bangladesh recently and against Sri Lanka at home when the Lankan Tigers toured India in early 2022.
The majority of the focus was on the T20 International format because of the T20 World Cup 2022 in Australia.
But India didn’t win that either as we all know that the T20I champions England thrashed India by ten wickets in the semi-final match of that ICC mega event Down Under.
In the upcoming season of 2023, India is scheduled to play four-match series in the red ball format against the Aussies. This series is important especially for India as they need to qualify for the WTC 2023 finals.
India needs to win the four-match Test series by a margin of 3-0 or 3-1. They can’t afford to lose the series because that will hamper their chance for the final qualification of the ICC test event.
The series loss might not do any wrong for Australia as they are first in the WTC Rankings. The Aussies have been in great form in the red-ball matches and they also win the series against South Africa.
So before the start of the four-match Test series between India Vs Australia and the new year of 2023, today we shall name the highest run-getters and wicket-takers for India in the red ball format.
In 2022, India has played seven Test matches this year, they have won four of them and lost three red ball matches in 2022.