The series is named after Australia's Allan Border and India's Sunil Gavaskar, who both scored over 10,000 Test runs in their career and captained their respective teams and were the world record holders for most runs scored in Test match cricket.
Before the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, India and Australia had played each other 50 times in Tests in a 49-year period from 1947 to 1996.
Sachin Tendulkar (Ind) is the leading run scorer of the tournament with 3,262 runs and Anil Kumble (Ind) is the highest wicket taker with 105 Wickets.
Border - Gavaskar Trophy 2000-01: 2nd Test, Day 1 (2001): Harbhajan became the first Indian to take a Test match hat-trick.
Border - Gavaskar Trophy 2000-01: 2nd Test, Day 4 (2001):-
VVS Laxman scored an extraordinary knock of 281 in the second innings (following on) when under tremendous pressure and with Australia looking set for a crushing 17th win in a row. He broke Sunil Gavaskar's long standing Indian Test record score of 236*. This remained the highest ever by an Indian until it was eclipsed by Virender Sehwag's triple ton against Pakistan in Multan in March 2004. The innings also contributed to a record partnership of 376 with Rahul Dravid who made 180 and together they survived the whole 4th day.