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Test no. 897

India in New Zealand Test Series - 1st Test
New Zealand v India

1980/81 season

Played at Basin Reserve, Wellington, on 21,22,23,25 February 1981 (5-day match)

Result New Zealand won by 62 runs


New Zealand 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	JG Wright	c Binny b Yograj Singh	32	97	64	4	0	50.00
	BA Edgar	c Kirmani b Patil	39	167	97	3	0	40.20
	JF Reid	c Kirmani b Patil	46	202	163	4	0	28.22
	GP Howarth	not out	137	353	237	15	0	57.80
	JV Coney	c & b Shastri	4	23	26	0	0	15.38
	GN Edwards	c Kirmani b Kapil Dev	23	49	46	5	0	50.00
	IDS Smith	c Vengsarkar b Kapil Dev	20	50	36	3	0	55.55
	RJ Hadlee	c Kirmani b Binny	20	36	22	2	0	90.90
	BL Cairns	c Gavaskar b Kapil Dev	13	38	31	0	1	41.93
	MC Snedden	b Shastri	2	18	14	0	0	14.28
	GB Troup	c Gavaskar b Shastri	0	1	1	0	0	0.00
	Extras	(b 4, lb 17, w 1, nb 17)	39

	Total	(all out; 119 overs)	375	(3.15 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-60 (Wright), 2-101 (Edgar), 3-200 (Reid), 4-215 (Coney), 5-245 (Edwards), 6-292 (Smith), 7-331 (Hadlee), 8-364 (Cairns), 9-375 (Snedden), 10-375 (Troup)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
N Kapil Dev	38	9	112	3	2.94
B Yograj Singh	15	3	63	1	4.20
RMH Binny	22	4	67	1	3.04
RJ Shastri	28	9	54	3	1.92
SM Patil	16	3	40	2	2.50


India 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	SM Gavaskar	b Cairns	23	111	74	3	0	31.08
	CPS Chauhan	c Coney b Troup	17	55	37	3	0	45.94
	DB Vengsarkar	lbw b Cairns	39	105	70	5	0	55.71
	GR Viswanath	b Cairns	0	2	3	0	0	0.00
	SM Patil	c Smith b Troup	64	137	113	10	0	56.63
	KBJ Azad	b Cairns	20	117	67	2	0	29.85
	N Kapil Dev	c Smith b Troup	0	1	1	0	0	0.00
	SMH Kirmani	run out	13		21	1	0	61.90
	RMH Binny	b Snedden	11		18	2	0	61.11
	RJ Shastri	not out	3		17	0	0	17.64
	B Yograj Singh	c Smith b Cairns	4		22	0	0	18.18
	Extras	(b 10, lb 13, nb 6)	29

	Total	(all out; 72.4 overs)	223	(3.06 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-32 (Chauhan), 2-70 (Gavaskar), 3-70 (Viswanath), 4-116 (Vengsarkar), 5-183 (Patil), 6-183 (Kapil Dev), 7-198 (Azad), 8-213 (Kirmani), 9-218 (Binny), 10-223 (Yograj Singh)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
RJ Hadlee	16	4	62	0	3.87
BL Cairns	19.4	8	33	5	1.67
MC Snedden	20	7	56	1	2.80
GB Troup	17	5	43	3	2.52


New Zealand 2nd innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	JG Wright	c Viswanath b Kapil Dev	8		28	1	0	28.57
	BA Edgar	c Patil b Binny	28	103	75	2	0	37.33
	JF Reid	lbw b Kapil Dev	7		24	1	0	29.16
	GP Howarth	c Kirmani b Patil	7		27	0	0	25.92
	JV Coney	c sub b Kapil Dev	8		35	1	0	22.85
	GN Edwards	c sub b Kapil Dev	6		18	1	0	33.33
	IDS Smith	not out	15		39	2	0	38.46
	RJ Hadlee	c Kirmani b Binny	7		37	1	0	18.91
	BL Cairns	c Vengsarkar b Shastri	0		4	0	0	0.00
	MC Snedden	c Vengsarkar b Shastri	0		4	0	0	0.00
	GB Troup	c Vengsarkar b Shastri	0		1	0	0	0.00
	Extras	(lb 10, w 2, nb 2)	14

	Total	(all out; 49 overs)	100	(2.04 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-17 (Wright), 2-35 (Reid), 3-57 (Howarth), 4-58 (Edgar), 5-73 (Coney), 6-78 (Edwards), 7-99 (Hadlee), 8-100 (Cairns), 9-100 (Snedden), 10-100 (Troup)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
N Kapil Dev	16	4	34	4	2.12
RMH Binny	12	4	26	2	2.16
RJ Shastri	3	0	9	3	3.00
SM Patil	17	10	12	1	0.70
KBJ Azad	1	0	5	0	5.00


India 2nd innings (target: 253 runs)			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	SM Gavaskar	b Snedden	12	48	33	0	0	36.36
	CPS Chauhan	b Hadlee	1	19	12	0	0	8.33
	DB Vengsarkar	c Smith b Hadlee	26	99	59	1	0	44.06
	GR Viswanath	b Troup	9	36	23	1	0	39.13
	SM Patil	c Smith b Cairns	42	89	62	7	0	67.74
	KBJ Azad	b Hadlee	16	46	43	3	0	37.20
	SMH Kirmani	b Cairns	11	50	36	1	0	30.55
	N Kapil Dev	c Hadlee b Troup	9	36	26	1	0	34.61
	RMH Binny	not out	26	111	86	2	0	30.23
	RJ Shastri	c Smith b Snedden	19	70	54	3	0	35.18
	B Yograj Singh	c Smith b Hadlee	6	37	28	1	0	21.42
	Extras	(b 2, lb 5, nb 6)	13

	Total	(all out; 75.3 overs)	190	(2.51 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-10 (Chauhan), 2-30 (Gavaskar), 3-50 (Viswanath), 4-75 (Vengsarkar), 5-111 (Azad), 6-117 (Patil), 7-136 (Kirmani), 8-136 (Kapil Dev), 9-170 (Shastri), 10-190 (Yograj Singh)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
RJ Hadlee	22.3	7	65	4	2.88
BL Cairns	19	8	30	2	1.57
MC Snedden	17	4	39	2	2.29
GB Troup	13	4	34	2	2.61
JV Coney	4	1	9	0	2.25

Toss India, who chose to field first
Series New Zealand led the 3-match series 1-0

Test debuts KBJ Azad, RJ Shastri and B Yograj Singh (India); MC Snedden (New Zealand)
Players of the match GP Howarth (New Zealand) and SM Patil (India)

Umpires FR Goodall and SJ Woodward

Close of play
21 Feb day 1 - New Zealand 1st innings 241/4 (GP Howarth 77*, GN Edwards 19*)
22 Feb day 2 - India 1st innings 133/4 (SM Patil 30*, KBJ Azad 6*)
23 Feb day 3 - New Zealand 2nd innings 100
24 Feb rest day
25 Feb day 4 - India 2nd innings 190 (75.3 ov) - end of match

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