When the India and Australia teams collide, the game rarely stays ordinary, and this time, the sparks and glitter will fly ‘Down Under’ between October and November 2025. The Indian cricket team, under new captain Shubman Gill, is set to tour Australia for a three-match ODI series and a five-match T20I rubber to comprise an eight-chapter saga that promises drama, dominance and high-voltage cricket under the southern skies.
For both nations, the upcoming T20Is serve as a dress rehearsal ahead of the 2026 T20 World Cup in the subcontinent, while the ODIs lay the first stepping stones toward the grand 2027 ICC Cricket World Cup in South Africa in a couple of years.
Additionally, for Team India, the series also heralds potential milestones for seasoned pros and returning veterans like former captains Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, perhaps on their final trip to Australia in India colours. India’s T20I skipper Suryakumar Yadav also finds himself on the precipice of some fresh feats as the explosive right-hander gears up to etch his name further into cricket’s modern folklore.
As Team India braces for the high-octane Australian summer, we take a look at a list of all major records Indian players can achieve or rewrite beneath the golden light of the outback.
Indian records likely to be broken in ODIs, T20Is vs Australia:
1. Virat Kohli
54 away from becoming ODI cricket’s second biggest run-maker
Virat Kohli is just 54 runs away from surpassing Kumar Sangakkara’s tally of 14,234 runs to become ODI cricket’s second biggest run-accumulator after the great Sachin Tendulkar. Kohli is currently sitting on a pile of 14,181 ODI runs at a prolific average of 57.88, the best among all batters with over 5,000 ODI runs, let alone 10,000.
2. Virat Kohli
159 away from becoming second second-highest run-maker for a single team
Virat Kohli has aggregated 27,599 runs across all formats of the game for Team India. By scoring another 159 runs, Kohli will soar past Kumar Sangakkara (27,757 runs for Sri Lanka) to become the highest run-maker in the history of international cricket for a single team. Sangakkara has accrued 28,016 runs in his career, with the remainder coming for Asia XI and ICC World XI.
3. Rohit Sharma
8 sixes away from becoming ODI cricket’s highest six-hitter
Legendary Indian opening batter and former captain Rohit Sharma has launched 344 ODI sixes in just 265 innings. By adding eight more to his tally, Rohit will become the leading six-hitter in the format, going past former Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi (351 sixes in 369 innings).
4. Rohit Sharma
Rohit Sharma on the verge of joining elite 20k club
Rohit Sharma is just 300 runs away from becoming only the 14th cricketer in the world to scale 20,000 international runs across all three formats. The blistering opener has so far aggregated 19,700 runs since his debut in 2007.
5. Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli is just 67 away from breaking Sachin Tendulkar’s white-ball record
Virat Kohli, with 18,370 runs to his name in ODI and T20I formats combined, needs just 67 more runs to surpass Sachin Tendulkar (18,436 runs) and become the leading run-maker in the history of white-ball cricket.
6. Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma
Both are on the verge of scoring most ODI tons vs a single team
Both Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have recorded eight ODI centuries each against Australia. If either of the two cricketers enjoys a prolific series by scoring two tons, that particular batter will level up with Kohli in compiling the most ODI hundreds against a single opponent. Kohli continues to occupy the top two slots for this rare record, considering the legendary right-hander has aggregated 10 centuries against Sri Lanka and nine against the West Indies in ODIs.
7. Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli is one away from getting the most centuries in a single format
Virat Kohli has hauled a world record tally of 51 hundreds in ODI cricket alone. If the former Indian captain manages to add another century in his batting register, he will surpass legendary ex-batter Sachin Tendulkar in becoming the highest ton maker in a single format. Tendulkar continues to jointly-hold this rare record for plundering 51 tons in Tests.
8. Rohit Sharma
Rohit Sharma at the brink of 50 international centuries
Rohit Sharma has punched out 12 Test tons, 32 ODI hundreds and five T20I centuries to compile 49 international triple-figure scores across all three formats of the game. If the champion opener manages to hit one more century, he will become only the tenth cricketer in the history of the game and only the third contemporary batter after Virat Kohli and Steve Smith to reach 50 international hundreds.
9. Rohit Sharma
Rohit Sharma is just a game away from 500 international caps
Since his international debut back in 2007, former captain and legendary opener Rohit Sharma has played 499 matches for Team India across all formats. In the series-opener against Australia itself at the Optus Stadium in Perth, Rohit will earn his 500th international cap for Team India to become only the 11th cricketer in history to play 500 matches. He has represented the nation in 67 Tests, 273 ODIs and 159 T20I games so far.
10. Suryakumar Yadav
On the verge of becoming T20I cricket’s leading century-maker
Indian T20I captain Suryakumar Yadav has aggregated four centuries in his T20I career in just 85 innings. Currently ranked fourth in the world in terms of number of individual T20I hundreds, Suryakumar needs just one more ton to join national teammate Rohit Sharma and Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell (five centuries each) in becoming the joint-leading century maker in the game’s truncated format.
11. Suryakumar Yadav
Suryakumar Yadav is just two hits away from scaling 150 T20I sixes
Indian T20I resolute Suryakumar Yadav needs just two more sixes to complete 150 maximums in T20I cricket, thus becoming only the fifth batter in history to breach the landmark figure. At the moment, the former number one-ranked T20I batter has collected 148 sixes in 85 innings spanning 90 matches for the Indian team.