| Venue | Eden Gardens, Calcutta on 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st March 1998 (5-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Australia won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | India won by an innings and 219 runs |
| Umpires | BC Cooray, K Parthasarathy |
| Third umpire | S Choudhary |
| Referee | PL van der Merwe |
| Close of play day 1 | Australia (1) 233 all out |
| Close of play day 2 | India (1) 369/3 (Dravid 76*, Azharuddin 9*; 90 overs) |
| Close of play day 3 | Australia (2) 38/1 (Taylor 11*, Blewett 19*; 19 overs) |
| Man of the Match | J Srinath |
| Australia first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| MJ Slater | c Dravid b Srinath | 0 | 6 | 3 | - | - | |
| *MA Taylor | c Mongia b Ganguly | 3 | 21 | 49 | - | - | |
| GS Blewett | b Srinath | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| ME Waugh | lbw b Srinath | 10 | 19 | 27 | 2 | - | |
| SR Waugh | run out (Dravid->Kumble) | 80 | 175 | 229 | 13 | - | |
| RT Ponting | b Kumble | 60 | 127 | 149 | 7 | - | |
| +IA Healy | c Laxman b Kumble | 1 | 6 | 12 | - | - | |
| SK Warne | c Azharuddin b Kumble | 11 | 17 | 23 | 2 | - | |
| GR Robertson | lbw b Ganguly | 29 | 99 | 127 | 3 | - | |
| MS Kasprowicz | c Azharuddin b Ganguly | 25 | 83 | 92 | 3 | - | |
| P Wilson | not out | 0 | 2 | 7 | - | - | |
| Extras | (2 lb, 12 nb) | 14 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 367 minutes, 89.4 overs) | 233 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Slater, 0.5 ov), 2-1 (Blewett, 0.6 ov), 3-15 (ME Waugh, 6.4 ov), 4-29 (Taylor, 9.2 ov), 5-141 (Ponting, 46.4 ov), 6-151 (Healy, 50.1 ov), 7-168 (Warne, 56.1 ov), 8-178 (SR Waugh, 62.5 ov), 9-232 (Kasprowicz, 87.5 ov), 10-233 (Robertson, 89.4 ov) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Srinath | 17 | 0 | 80 | 3 | - | 10 |
| Ganguly | 13.4 | 3 | 28 | 3 | - | 1 |
| Kumble | 28 | 11 | 44 | 3 | - | 1 |
| Tendulkar | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | - | - |
| Raju | 17 | 2 | 42 | 0 | - | - |
| Chauhan | 11 | 2 | 30 | 0 | - | - |
| Laxman | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - |
| India first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| VVS Laxman | c Healy b Robertson | 95 | 161 | 225 | 16 | - | |
| NS Sidhu | lbw b ME Waugh | 97 | 152 | 204 | 16 | - | |
| RS Dravid | c and b Blewett | 86 | 150 | 209 | 12 | - | |
| SR Tendulkar | c Blewett b Kasprowicz | 79 | 86 | 109 | 12 | 2 | |
| *M Azharuddin | not out | 163 | 246 | 311 | 18 | 3 | |
| SC Ganguly | c sub (DS Lehmann) b Robertson | 65 | 128 | 175 | 6 | 1 | |
| +NR Mongia | not out | 30 | 44 | 56 | 5 | - | |
| J Srinath | did not bat | ||||||
| RK Chauhan | did not bat | ||||||
| SLV Raju | did not bat | ||||||
| A Kumble | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 7 lb, 9 nb) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, declared, 647 minutes, 159 overs) | 633 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: 1-191 (Sidhu, 49.2 ov), 2-207 (Laxman, 54.1 ov), 3-347 (Tendulkar, 81.3 ov), 4-400 (Dravid, 101.4 ov), 5-558 (Ganguly, 144.3 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Kasprowicz | 34 | 6 | 122 | 1 | - | 3 |
| Wilson | 12 | 2 | 50 | 0 | - | - |
| Blewett | 20 | 3 | 65 | 1 | - | - |
| Warne | 42 | 4 | 147 | 0 | - | 7 |
| Robertson | 33 | 2 | 163 | 2 | - | - |
| ME Waugh | 18 | 1 | 77 | 1 | - | 3 |
| Australia second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *MA Taylor | run out (Laxman->Mongia) | 45 | 116 | 187 | 5 | - | |
| MJ Slater | b Srinath | 5 | 14 | 22 | - | - | |
| GS Blewett | lbw b Srinath | 25 | 76 | 94 | 2 | - | |
| ME Waugh | c Laxman b Kumble | 0 | 5 | 6 | - | - | |
| RT Ponting | c Srinath b Kumble | 9 | 25 | 40 | 1 | - | |
| +IA Healy | lbw b Srinath | 38 | 104 | 118 | 6 | - | |
| SR Waugh | lbw b Kumble | 33 | 138 | 173 | 5 | - | |
| SK Warne | c and b Kumble | 9 | 33 | 44 | 1 | - | |
| GR Robertson | c Azharuddin b Kumble | 0 | 3 | 3 | - | - | |
| MS Kasprowicz | c Raju b Chauhan | 10 | 24 | 30 | 1 | - | |
| P Wilson | not out | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | - | |
| Extras | (1 b, 3 lb, 3 nb) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 364 minutes, 88.4 overs) | 181 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: 1-7 (Slater, 4.1 ov), 2-55 (Blewett, 26.3 ov), 3-56 (ME Waugh, 27.5 ov), 4-81 (Ponting, 35.6 ov), 5-91 (Taylor, 41.3 ov), 6-133 (Healy, 68.5 ov), 7-158 (Warne, 79.2 ov), 8-158 (Robertson, 79.5 ov), 9-181 (SR Waugh, 87.6 ov), 10-181 (Kasprowicz, 88.4 ov) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Srinath | 19 | 6 | 44 | 3 | - | 2 |
| Ganguly | 4 | 0 | 9 | 0 | - | 1 |
| Kumble | 31 | 10 | 62 | 5 | - | - |
| Chauhan | 18.4 | 4 | 42 | 1 | - | - |
| Raju | 16 | 7 | 20 | 0 | - | - |
Notes
--> The match was scheduled for five days but completed in four.
--> SR Waugh (1) passed 16500 runs in First-Class Matches when he reached 66
--> RT Ponting (1) passed 1000 runs in Test Matches when he reached 42
--> MS Kasprowicz (1) passed his previous highest Test Matches score of 21
--> P Wilson made his debut in Test Matches
--> VVS Laxman (1) passed his previous highest Test Matches score of 64
--> NS Sidhu (1) passed 3000 runs in Test Matches when he reached 67
--> SR Tendulkar (1) passed 1000 runs in First-Class Matches for the season when he reached 31
--> M Azharuddin (1) passed 5500 runs in Test Matches when he reached 24
--> SC Ganguly achieved his best innings bowling analysis in Test Matches in the Australia first innings (previous best was 3-71)
--> A Kumble reached 550 wickets in First-Class Matches when he dismissed SR Waugh, his 5th wicket in the Australia second innings
Lunch: Australia 67/4 (SR Waugh 29*, Ponting 20*; 29 overs)
Tea: Australia 175/7 (SR Waugh 79*, Robertson 0*; 58 overs)
Srinath took two wickets in the opening over of the Test, only the second such instance (prev. SJ Snooke, South Africa v England at Cape Town, 1909-10)
SR Waugh used a runner (Blewett) due to injury from over 55, when 74*. He was dismissed when the runner was caught out of his ground attempting a single.
Lunch: India 95/0 (Laxman 47*, Sidhu 42*; 29 overs)
Tea: India 228/2 (Dravid 16*, Tendulkar 12*; 58 overs)
