India Vs New Zealand 10Th Match
Benson & Hedges World Series Cup Australia, India, New Zealand in Australia - 1980 (1980/81) · Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne · 10 January 1981
New Zealand won by 10 wickets (with 30 balls remaining)
New Zealand won by 10 wickets (with 30 balls remaining). Bruce Edgar top-scored with 65* for New Zealand.
MATCH FACTS
- Ground
- Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne
- Date
- 10 January 1981
- Toss
- New Zealand, chose to field
- Result
- New Zealand won by 10 wickets (with 30 balls remaining)
- Player of the match
- Bruce Edgar
- Captains
- Sunil Gavaskar (India), Geoff Howarth (New Zealand)
- Umpires
- RV Whitehead and RC Bailhache
HOW THE MATCH UNFOLDED
New Zealand won the toss and chose to field.
India batted first and made 112 for 9. Gundappa Viswanath top-scored with 33 off 52 balls. That was well below the 1980s average first-innings total at Melbourne Cricket Ground, 209 across 55 ODIs.
Chasing 113, New Zealand made 113 for 0. Bruce Edgar top-scored with 65 not out off 89 balls, and John Wright made 39. The innings was built on a 113-run stand for the first wicket between John Wright and Bruce Edgar, 100% of the total.
New Zealand won by 10 wickets (with 30 balls remaining).
INDIA: 112 FOR 9
| Batter | How out | R | B |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunil Gavaskar | lbw | 8 | 31 |
| Tirumalai Srinivasan | bowled | 4 | 23 |
| Dilip Vengsarkar | c John Parker | 0 | 2 |
| Gundappa Viswanath | run out | 33 | 52 |
| Sandeep Patil | c Jeremy Coney | 8 | 22 |
| Yashpal Sharma | bowled | 5 | 17 |
| Kapil Dev | run out | 21 | 19 |
| Syed Kirmani | run out | 7 | 8 |
| Karsan Ghavri | c Geoff Howarth | 6 | 11 |
| Roger Binny | not out | 5 | 14 |
| Dilip Doshi | not out | 5 | 5 |
Extras 10 · Total 112 for 9
| Bowler (New Zealand) | O | M | R | W |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Hadlee | 8 | 3 | 15 | 0 |
| Ewen Chatfield | 8 | 2 | 14 | 1 |
| Jeremy Coney | 6 | 3 | 18 | 2 |
| Lance Cairns | 7 | 0 | 39 | 1 |
| Martin Snedden | 5 | 0 | 16 | 2 |
FALL OF WICKETS
1-13 (Tirumalai Srinivasan), 2-13 (Dilip Vengsarkar), 3-13 (Sunil Gavaskar), 4-46 (Sandeep Patil), 5-60 (Yashpal Sharma), 6-66 (Gundappa Viswanath), 7-82 (Syed Kirmani), 8-98 (Karsan Ghavri), 9-100 (Kapil Dev)
| Wkt | Batters | Runs |
|---|---|---|
| first | Sunil Gavaskar and Tirumalai Srinivasan | 13 |
| second | Sunil Gavaskar and Dilip Vengsarkar | 0 |
| third | Gundappa Viswanath and Sunil Gavaskar | 0 |
| fourth | Gundappa Viswanath and Sandeep Patil | 33 |
| fifth | Gundappa Viswanath and Yashpal Sharma | 14 |
| sixth | Gundappa Viswanath and Kapil Dev | 6 |
| seventh | Syed Kirmani and Kapil Dev | 16 |
| eighth | Karsan Ghavri and Kapil Dev | 16 |
| ninth | Kapil Dev and Roger Binny | 2 |
| tenth | Dilip Doshi and Roger Binny | 12 |
NEW ZEALAND: 113 FOR 0
| Batter | How out | R | B |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Wright | not out | 39 | 87 |
| Bruce Edgar | not out | 65 | 89 |
Did not bat: John Parker, Geoff Howarth, Jeremy Coney, Warren Lees, Mark Burgess, Richard Hadlee, Lance Cairns, Martin Snedden, Ewen Chatfield
Extras 9 · Total 113 for 0
| Bowler (India) | O | M | R | W |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kapil Dev | 8 | 0 | 29 | 0 |
| Karsan Ghavri | 7 | 2 | 15 | 0 |
| Roger Binny | 4 | 0 | 23 | 0 |
| Sandeep Patil | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Dilip Doshi | 8 | 0 | 27 | 0 |
| Wkt | Batters | Runs | Balls |
|---|---|---|---|
| first | John Wright and Bruce Edgar | 113 | 174 |
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