WATCH: India complete HISTORIC Test series win downunder
Updated | By Sky Tshabalala
Virat Kohli's dominant India reinforced their status as the world's number one team by winning a historic first-ever series in Australia on Monday in an achievement the skipper called the biggest of his storied career.
Australia were still 316 in arrears in Sydney when the match was called off due to rain on day five, leaving India with a 2-1 triumph after wins in Adelaide and Melbourne. Australia won in Perth.
It is the first time they have managed the feat since they began touring Australia in 1947-48.
Is this series triumph Virat Kohli's greatest achievement? #AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/hZAP5JjkA5
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) January 7, 2019
ndia got the series off to the best possible start by winning the tight opening Test in Adelaide by 31 runs on the fifth day -- their first Test win in Australia for a decade.
The victory was built on Cheteshwar Pujara's first innings 123 and his second innings 71, while wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant took a world record-equalling 11 catches.
Australia bounced back in Perth to level the series, winning by 146 runs.
It was a huge relief for the home side, having not won a Test since the ball-tampering "sandpapergate" scandal that rocked international cricket last March.
But another Pujara century in Melbourne set the visitors up for a big first innings total and when Australia capitulated in reply to 151 all out, the scene was set for India to take a stranglehold on the series coming into Sydney.
So where did it all go wrong for the Aussies?
What was the turning point in the series? Aussie skipper Tim Paine has his say... #AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/9oLqIKLNnT
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) January 7, 2019
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