India get unexpected win, beat Australia by 59 runs
By A. C. De Silva
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Sunil Gavaskar – 70 in India’s 2nd innings score of 324
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CRICKET: A dramatic collapse by Australia who were shot out for 83
runs needing 143 runs for victory saw them tumble to defeat in their
Test match against India at the Melbourne Cricket Grounds in the 1980-81
series. This was truly a fine display of bowling by the Indians in their
second innings.
Though the Aussies target was only 143 runs, they just could not get
going in the second innings, though it was a different story in the
first innings. After India made a moderate score of 237 runs in the
first innings with a fine knock of 114 by Gundappa Visvanath who rescued
the Indians from 99 for 5 wickets to get to their ultimate total, the
Australians made merry in their first innings running up the massive
score of 419 in their first innings with some fine batting displays by
Alan Border (124), Greg Chappel (76), Walters (78) and Marsh (45)
getting runs against a not effective Indian attack.
The Indian bowlers apart from Dilip Doshi (3 for 109)didn’t impress
and the Aussies scored freely.
India in their first turn made 237, but in their second innings they
had a effervescent start to their second innings with openers Sunil
Gavaskar (70) and Chetan Chauhan (85) getting into their stride with a
fine stroke-play and their carefree batting helped India to get on with
the game with a fine opening partnership of 165 runs and this helped
them to get to 324 runs in their second innings.
Though Australia had to make only 143 runs for victory, this proved
to be too much of a task for the Aussie batsmen in the second innings
and they were shot out for 83 runs which gave the Indians somewhat of a
unexpected win in this game.
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G.R. Visvanath – 114 in India’s first innings score of 237 |
Kapil Dev 5 for 28 in Australia’s 2nd innings score of 83
all out. |
Allan Border 124 in Australia’s first innings score of 419. |
Greg Chappell – 76 in Australia’s first innings score of
419. |
SCOREBOARD
India 1st Innings
S.M. Gavaskar c Hughes b Pascoe 10
C.P.S. Chauhan c Yardley b Pascoe 00
D.B. Vengsakar c Border b Lillee 12
G.R. Visvanath c Chappell b Yardley 114
S.M. Patil c Hughes b Lillee 23
Yaspal Sharma Marsh b Lillee 04
Kapil Dev c Hughes b Pascoe 05
S.M.H. Kirmani c Marsh b Lillee 25
K.D. Ghavri run out 00
N.S. Yadev not out 20
D.R. Doshi Walters b Yardley 00
Extras 24
Total 237
Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-22, 3-43, 4-91, 5-99, 6-115
7-164, 8-190, 9-230.
Bowling: Lillee 25-6-65-4
Pascoe 22-11-29-3
Chappell 5-2-9-0
Yardley 13-3-45-2
Higgs 19-2-65-0
Australia 1st Innings
J. Dyson c Kirmani b Kapil Dev 16
G.M. Wood c Doshi b Ghavri 10
G.S. Chappell c and b Ghavri 76
K.J. Hughes c Chauhan b Yadav 24
A.R. Border b Yadav 124
K.D. Walters St. Kirmani b Doshi 78
R.W. Marsh c sub (Azad)b Doshi 45
B. Yardley lbw b Doshi 00
D.K. Lillee c and b Patil 19
L.S. Pascoe lbw b Patil 03
J.D. Higgs not out 01
Extras 23
Total 419
Fall of Wickets: 1-30, 2-32, 3-81, 4-189, 5-320, 6-356
7-356, 8-413, 9-413
Bowling: Kapil Dev 19-7-41-1
Doshi 52-14-109-3
Ghavri 39-4-110-2
Yadav 32-6-100-2
Chauhan 2-0-8-0
Patil 12.3-4-38-2
India 2nd Innings
S.M. Gavaskar lbw b Lillee 70
C.P.S. Chauhan c Yardley b Lillee 85
D.B.Vengsakar c Marsh b Pascoe 41
G.R. Visvanath b Lillee 30
S.M. Patil c Chappell b Yardley 36
Yaspal Sharma b Pascoe 09
Kapil Dev b Yardley 00
S.M.H. Kirmani run out 09
K.D. Ghavri not out 11
N.S. Yadev absent -hurt 00
D.R. Doshi b Lillee 07
Extras 26
Total 324
Fall of wickets: 1-165, 2-176, 3-243, 4-245, 5-260
6-296, 7-296, 8-308, 9-324
Bowling: Lillee 32.1-5-104-4
Pascoe 29-4-80-2
Yardley 31-11-65-2
Higgs 15-3-41-0
Border 2-0-8-0
Australia 2nd Innings
J. Dyson c Kirmani b Ghavri 03
G.M. Wood St. Kirmani b Doshi 10
G.S. Chappell b Ghavri 00
K.J. Hughes b Doshi 16
A.R. Border c Kirmani b Kapil Dev 09
K.D. Walters not out 18
R.W. Marsh b Kapil Dev 03
B. Yardley b Kapil Dev 07
D.K. Lillee b Kapil Dev 04
L.S. Pascoe run out 06
J.D. Higgs lbw b Kapil Dev 00
Extras 07
Total 83
Fall of Wickets: 1-11, 2-11, 3-18, 4-40, 5-50, 6-55
7-61, 8-69, 9-79
Bowling: Kapil Dev 16.4-4-28-5
Doshi 22-9-33-2
Ghavri 8-4-10-2
Patil 2-0-5-0
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