New Zealand v India 3rd Test
India tour of New Zealand - 1981 (1980/81) · Eden Park, Auckland · 13 March 1981 · India won the toss and chose to bat
Match drawn · Man of the Match: John Wright
Match drawn. John Wright top-scored with 110 for New Zealand. Man of the Match: John Wright.
India, 224 (10 wkts)
| Sunil Gavaskar | caught (Ian Smith) | 5 | 21 |
| Chetan Chauhan | caught (Lance Cairns) | 36 | 132 |
| Dilip Vengsarkar | caught (Geoff Howarth) | 0 | 6 |
| Sandeep Patil | caught (Ian Smith) | 19 | 18 |
| Gundappa Viswanath | lbw | 2 | 17 |
| Tirumalai Srinivasan | caught (Ian Smith) | 29 | 81 |
| Ravi Shastri | caught (Lance Cairns) | 5 | 45 |
| Syed Kirmani | bowled | 78 | 230 |
| Kapil Dev | bowled | 4 | 10 |
| Shivlal Yadav | caught (Richard Hadlee) | 43 | 213 |
| Dilip Doshi | not out | 3 | 16 |
Richard Hadlee 27.00-11-49-1Martin Snedden 22.00-7-52-2Lance Cairns 27.00-13-37-3Jeremy Coney 9.00-1-14-0John Bracewell 42.30-17-61-4Geoff Howarth 3.00-0-11-0
New Zealand, 335 (10 wkts)
| John Wright | caught (Syed Kirmani) | 110 | 434 |
| Bruce Edgar | caught (Ravi Shastri) | 0 | 2 |
| John Reid | caught (Gundappa Viswanath) | 74 | 269 |
| Geoff Howarth | caught | 0 | 17 |
| Jeremy Coney | caught (Dilip Doshi) | 65 | 207 |
| Jock Edwards | caught (Dilip Doshi) | 34 | 50 |
| Richard Hadlee | caught (Chetan Chauhan) | 0 | 7 |
| Lance Cairns | caught (Sunil Gavaskar) | 41 | 72 |
| Ian Smith | bowled | 10 | 23 |
| John Bracewell | lbw | 1 | 38 |
| Martin Snedden | not out | 0 | 7 |
Kapil Dev 20.00-6-34-0Sandeep Patil 6.00-4-2-1Shivlal Yadav 33.00-8-91-1Dilip Doshi 69.00-34-79-2Ravi Shastri 56.00-13-125-5Chetan Chauhan 2.00-0-4-1
India, 241 (10 wkts)
| Sunil Gavaskar | caught (John Wright) | 33 | 101 |
| Chetan Chauhan | caught (Lance Cairns) | 7 | 52 |
| Tirumalai Srinivasan | caught (John Wright) | 19 | 105 |
| Gundappa Viswanath | run out | 46 | 137 |
| Dilip Vengsarkar | not out | 52 | 184 |
| Sandeep Patil | bowled | 57 | 93 |
| Kapil Dev | caught (Bruce Edgar) | 14 | 17 |
| Syed Kirmani | bowled | 1 | 5 |
| Ravi Shastri | run out | 9 | 34 |
| Shivlal Yadav | caught (Ian Smith) | 1 | 5 |
| Dilip Doshi | bowled | 2 | 4 |
Richard Hadlee 21.00-3-65-0Martin Snedden 13.00-4-40-0Lance Cairns 35.50-16-47-3Jeremy Coney 4.00-1-3-0John Bracewell 41.00-19-75-5Geoff Howarth 6.00-3-11-0
New Zealand, 85 (5 wkts)
| John Wright | not out | 33 | 194 |
| Bruce Edgar | caught (Syed Kirmani) | 1 | 7 |
| Jock Edwards | caught (Ravi Shastri) | 47 | 96 |
| Richard Hadlee | bowled | 2 | 11 |
| Geoff Howarth | caught (Chetan Chauhan) | 2 | 49 |
| John Reid | lbw | 0 | 6 |
| Jeremy Coney | not out | 0 | 1 |
| Lance Cairns | did not bat | 0 | 0 |
| Ian Smith | did not bat | 0 | 0 |
| John Bracewell | did not bat | 0 | 0 |
| Martin Snedden | did not bat | 0 | 0 |
Kapil Dev 10.00-6-15-1Sandeep Patil 4.00-0-8-0Shivlal Yadav 11.00-4-20-0Dilip Doshi 19.00-9-18-2Ravi Shastri 18.00-8-24-2
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