All-time combined India-Australia Test XI

#6 Allan Border (Captain)

Allan Border

The left-handed workhorse was responsible for dragging Australia from a dark age and getting them back into being the best in the business. Although he took up the captaincy quite reluctantly, he grew in stature with every passing match and before long the captaincy and his batting went hand in hand.

He was not one of those batsmen who had every shot in the book, but Border knew his limits and his strengths. He would not give his wicket away easily and after tiring out the bowlers would go about his business of scoring freely.

By the time he retired in 1994, Border had scored 11,174 runs from 156 games at an average of 50.56. He smashed 27 hundreds and 63 fifties during that time.