India beat Australia by 59 runs in Melbourne!

FLASHBACK: India has something to figure about in their clashes against Australia in the early 1980s. It was Melbourne and one never thought that India would be able to pull off this match, after Australia had made 419 in their first innings and India 237 in their first turn when they batted first.

India kept improving in their batting. G.R. Visvanath made a solid 114 in the first innings for India to make somewhat of a comfortable first innings total of 237.

But Australia did well when it was their turn and they piled up 419 runs in their first innings with the star batsmen – Alan Border making 124 and together with Greg Chappell who made 76, Walters 78, Marsh 45 the Aussies kept on piling on the runs.

However, the Aussies first innings score was something like a flash in the pan and the Indian batsmen made a determined effort to pile on the runs in their second turn and their top order batsmen did not disappoint with Sunil Gavaskar (70) Chatan Chauhan (85) engaged in a glorious opening partnership of 165 runs that paved the way for them to force themselves to be in with a chance.

The Indian openers played solidly in the second innings to make the Aussies think hard as to what the outcome of the match will finally be.So, with openers Gavaskar and Chauhan will away with the run-making the Indians were able to pile up 324 runs in their second innings and they had a total of 567, but that was not enough as the Australia had made 419 runs in their first innings. So, Australia had to make 143 runs to clinch victory. In normal circumstances, the target that the Aussies had to make looked simple.

However, the glorious uncertainties of cricket prevailed in the end and the Australia stumped in their second innings and they were shot out for just 83 runs in their second turn, a collapse that no one expected. So, finally the Indian had climbed the ladder of success with their paceman Kapil Dev in rip-roaring form and grabbing 5 for 28 and being the chief wrecker of the Australian team in what out to be a historic match for the Indian team.

Dennis Lillee- Reached top form and bowled well in both innings. He took 4 for 65 in the first innings of India who were all out 237 and then in the second innings he took 4 for 104 in India’s score of 324.	Greg Chappel made 76 in Australia’s first innings score of 419.	Kapil Dev – Came into top form with the ball in Australia’s second innings and made a match-winning effort taking 5 for 28 and Australia were shot out for 83 in their second innings and this effort took the Indians to victory.
C.P.S. Chauhan – Scored an elegant 85 in India’s second innings total of 324 after being out without scoring in the first innings.	Len Pascoe took 3 for 29 in India’s first innings score of 237 and had 2 for 80 in India’s second innings score of 324.	Sunil Gavaskar – Made a elegant knock of 70 runs in India’s second innings total of 324 against Australia.

SCOREBOARD

INDIA 1ST INNINGS 
S.M. Gavaskar c Hughes b Pascoe	 		10
C.P.S. Chauhan c Yardley b Pascoe 	  	00
D.B. Vangsarkar c Border b Lillee	 	12
G.R. Visvanath c Chappell b Yardley 	       114 
S.M. Patil c Hughes B Lillee 	 		23
Yaspal Sharma c 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. Yadav not out 	 			20
D.R. Doshi c 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 (Australia): D.K. Lillee 25-6-65-4
		     L.S. Pascoe 22-11-29-3
	             G.S. Chappell 5-2-9-0
		     Norman Yardley 13-3-45-2
	  	     J.D. 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 (India): Kapil Dev 19-7-41-1
		 D.R. Doshi 52-14-108-3
		 K.D. Ghavri 39-4-110-2
		 N.S. Yadav 32-6-100-2
		 C.A.S. Chauhan 2-0-8-0
		 S.M. 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. Vangsarkar 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. Yadav 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 (Australia): D.K. Lillee 32.1-5-104-4
		     L.S. Pascoe 29-4-80-2
		     B. Yardley 31-11-65-2
		     B. Yardley 31-11-65-2
		     J.D. Higgs 15-3-41-0
		     A.R. 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 (India): Kapil Dev 16.4-4-28-5
		 Doshi 22-9-33-2
		 Ghavri 8-4-10-2
		 Patil 2-0-5-0