List of India’s Boxing Day Test Matches, Captains, & Wins

Any Test Match in cricket played on 26th December just after Christmas Day is called a Boxing Day Test Match. The Test Match will be considered a Boxing Day Test only when it is played in Australia, England, South Africa, or New Zealand. The term Boxing Day was initiated in cricket from the year 1950 onwards.

Nowadays every test match is played on the 26th of December and is globally termed as Boxing Day Test Match by the cricket community. So far from India, Virat Kohli is the only captain to have a 100% success rate while leading in Boxing Day Test Matches with a minimum of 2 matches.

List of All the Boxing Day Test Matches where India appeared along with the Results:

SR/No.	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Captain (IND)
1	26/12/1985	Australia	Melbourne Cricket Ground	Drawn	Kapil Dev
2	26/12/1987	West Indies	Eden Gardens	Drawn	Dillip Vengsarkar
3	26/12/1991	Australia	Melbourne Cricket Ground	AUS Won	Mohd. Azharuddin
4	26/12/1992	South Africa	St George’s Park	RSA Won	Mohd. Azharuddin
5	26/12/1996	South Africa	Kingsmead	RSA Won	Sachin Tendulkar
6	26/12/1998	New Zealand	Basin Reserve	NZ Won	Mohd. Azharuddin
7	26/12/1999	Australia	Melbourne Cricket Ground	AUS Won	Sachin Tendulkar
8	26/12/2003	Australia	Melbourne Cricket Ground	AUS Won	Sourav Ganguly
9	26/12/2006	South Africa	Kingsmead	RSA Won	Rahul Dravid
10	26/12/2007	Australia	Melbourne Cricket Ground	AUS Won	Anil Kumble
11	26/12/2010	South Africa	Kingsmead	IND Won	MS Dhoni
12	26/12/2011	Australia	Melbourne Cricket Ground	AUS Won	MS Dhoni
13	26/12/2013	South Africa	Kingsmead	RSA Won	MS Dhoni
14	26/12/2014	Australia	Melbourne Cricket Ground	Drawn	MS Dhoni
15	26/12/2018	Australia	Melbourne Cricket Ground	IND Won	Virat Kohli
16	26/12/2020	Australia	Melbourne Cricket Ground	IND Won	Ajinkya Rahane
17	26/12/2021	South Africa	SuperSport Park	IND Won	Virat Kohli
18	26/12/2023	South Africa	SuperSport Park	RSA Won	Rohit Sharma