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Date Venue Captains Scores Result Player of the Match
12 Jul 1979
 
Birmingham
 
JM Brearley (Eng)
S Venkataraghavan (Ind)
Eng 633-5d
Ind 297 & 253
England
Innings & 83 runs
2 Aug 1979
 
Lord's
 
JM Brearley (Eng)
S Venkataraghavan (Ind)
Ind 96 & 318-4
Eng 419-9d
Match Drawn
 
16 Aug 1979
 
Leeds
 
JM Brearley (Eng)
S Venkataraghavan (Ind)
Eng 270
Ind 223-6
Match Drawn
 
30 Aug 1979
 
The Oval
 
JM Brearley (Eng)
S Venkataraghavan (Ind)
Eng 305 & 334-8d
Ind 202 & 429-8
Match Drawn
 


England Batting and Fielding

  Mat Inn no Runs Avg 50 100 HS S/R 4s/6s Ct/St
G Boycott 4 5 0 378 75.60 0 2 155 42.91 31 1
DI Gower 4 5 1 289 72.25 1 1 200* 71.01 34/2 2
IT Botham 4 5 0 244 48.80 0 1 137 78.21 21/7 10
GA Gooch 4 5 0 207 41.40 2 0 83 46.83 24/2 6
G Miller 3 3 1 152 76.00 2 0 63* 46.20 12 1
JM Brearley 4 5 0 96 19.20 0 0 34 30.48 8 7
P Willey 1 2 0 83 41.50 1 0 52 47.43 12 0
DW Randall 3 3 0 83 27.66 1 0 57 37.22 11 4
PH Edmonds 4 4 1 81 27.00 0 0 27* 46.55 12/1 1
DL Bairstow 1 2 0 68 34.00 1 0 59 45.95 8 3
RW Taylor 3 2 0 65 32.50 1 0 64 51.18 9 5
AR Butcher 1 2 0 34 17.00 0 0 20 21.79 3 0
RGD Willis 3 2 2 14 - 0 0 10* 35.90 2 0
JK Lever 1 1 1 6 - 0 0 6* 75.00 1 0
M Hendrick 4 2 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0.00 0 2


England Bowling

  Ov M R Wkt Avg BBi Econ 5/10 nb wd
IT Botham 179 49 472 20 23.60 5/35 2.64 2 0 0
M Hendrick 129.2 51 218 12 18.16 4/45 1.69 0 1 0
RGD Willis 102 23 298 10 29.80 3/53 2.92 0 0 0
PH Edmonds 161 56 323 6 53.83 2/60 2.01 0 0 0
P Willey 47.5 16 106 2 53.00 2/96 2.22 0 0 0
G Miller 69 23 134 2 67.00 2/52 1.94 0 0 0
JK Lever 33.5 10 98 2 49.00 1/29 2.90 0 0 1
GA Gooch 25 9 49 1 49.00 1/16 1.96 0 0 0
G Boycott 7 3 8 0 - - 1.14 0 0 0
AR Butcher 2 0 9 0 - - 4.50 0 0 0


India Batting and Fielding

  Mat Inn no Runs Avg 50 100 HS S/R 4s/6s Ct/St
SM Gavaskar 4 7 0 542 77.42 4 1 221 45.20 55 3
GR Viswanath 4 7 0 341 48.71 3 1 113 39.98 39 3
DB Vengsarkar 4 7 1 249 41.50 2 1 103 34.92 28 2
CPS Chauhan 4 7 0 179 25.57 2 0 80 33.09 21 1
Yashpal Sharma 3 5 1 102 25.50 0 0 40 36.82 7 0
AD Gaekwad 2 4 1 54 18.00 0 0 25 19.29 7 0
Kapil Dev 4 6 0 45 7.50 0 0 21 56.25 6 1
Yajurvindra Singh 1 2 1 44 44.00 0 0 43* 36.07 1 2
KD Ghavri 4 6 3 43 14.33 0 0 20* 23.37 2 1
M Amarnath 2 3 0 41 13.66 0 0 31 30.60 7 0
B Reddy 4 5 1 38 9.50 0 0 21 38.00 6 9/2
S Venkataraghavan 4 5 0 36 7.20 0 0 28 57.14 3/2 1
BS Bedi 3 2 0 1 0.50 0 0 1 11.11 0 0
BS Chandrasekhar 1 2 2 0 - 0 0 0* 0.00 0 0


India Bowling

  Ov M R Wkt Avg BBi Econ 5/10 nb wd
Kapil Dev 173.5 49 495 16 30.93 5/146 2.85 1 0 2
KD Ghavri 147 30 448 8 56.00 3/76 3.05 0 4 0
BS Bedi 103.3 23 249 7 35.57 2/26 2.41 0 0 0
S Venkataraghavan 115 21 345 6 57.50 3/59 3.00 0 0 0
M Amarnath 33.2 9 100 2 50.00 2/53 3.00 0 0 0
BS Chandrasekhar 29 1 113 0 - - 3.90 0 0 0
CPS Chauhan 3 0 19 0 - - 6.33 0 0 0
AD Gaekwad 3 0 12 0 - - 4.00 0 0 0
Yajurvindra Singh 10 2 19 0 - - 1.90 0 0 0


Partnerships

  Avg 0-9 10-49 50-99 100+ Best Test Batsmen
England
1st 45.6 - 3 2 - 66 1(1) Brearley & Boycott
2nd 27.4 2 2 1 - 64 4(2) Boycott & Gooch
3rd 34.8 2 2 - 1 145 1(1) Gooch & Boycott
4th 94.0 1 - 2 2 191 1(1) Gower & Boycott
5th 34.2 1 3 1 - 55 4(1) Botham & Gooch
6th 85.5 - 3 1 1 165* 1(1) Gower & Miller
7th 57.2 - 2 2 - 88 3(1) Botham & Edmonds
8th 37.2 2 1 - 1 103 2(1) Miller & Taylor
9th 18.7 1 2 - - 29 4(1) Edmonds & Willis
10th 2.5 2 - - - 4 3(1) Willis & Hendrick
   11 18 9 5
 
India
1st 64.7 2 2 1 2 213 4(2) Gavaskar & Chauhan
2nd 35.4 2 4 - 1 153 4(2) Gavaskar & Vengsarkar
3rd 50.0 3 2 1 1 210 2(2) Viswanath & Vengsarkar
4th 44.1 1 4 2 - 94 3(1) Gavaskar & Sharma
5th 28.2 3 3 1 - 50 3(1) Gavaskar & Vengsarkar
6th 10.0 3 3 - - 31 4(1) Singh & Dev
7th 23.4 3 2 1 - 63* 3(1) Ghavri & Vengsarkar
8th 9.4 3 2 - - 22 1(1) Reddy & Amarnath
9th 14.5 4 1 - - 43 1(1) Reddy & Venkataraghavan
10th 1.8 4 - - - 3 1(1) Reddy & Chandrasekhar
   28 23 6 4


Overall Summary

    Eng Ind
Runs Scored   1961 1818
Wickets lost   42 58
Overs faced   617.4 756
Runs per wicket   46.69 31.34
Runs per over   3.17 2.40
Innings  48 68
Ducks  5 10
Fifties  9 11
Centuries  4 3
5 w/inn  2 1
10 w/mat  0 0

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