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Test no. 845

West Indies in India Test Series - 6th Test
India v West Indies

1978/79 season

Played at Green Park, Kanpur, on 2,3,4,6,7,8 February 1979 (6-day match)

Result Match drawn


India 1st innings			R	M	4s	6s
	SM Gavaskar	c Murray b Marshall	40		5	2
	CPS Chauhan	st Murray b Parry	79	300		0
	DB Vengsarkar	lbw b Phillip	15			0
	GR Viswanath	c Phillip b Parry	179	420	14	0
	AD Gaekwad	b Jumadeen	102	340	10	0
	M Amarnath	not out	101	265	10	0
	N Kapil Dev	c Greenidge b Jumadeen	62		7	2
	SMH Kirmani	c Phillip b Jumadeen	2		0	0
	KD Ghavri	not out	18			0
	Extras	(b 9, lb 12, nb 25)	46

	Total	(7 wickets dec; 189.4 overs)	644	(3.39 runs per over)

Did not bat S Venkataraghavan, BS Chandrasekhar

Fall of wickets1-51 (Gavaskar), 2-77 (Vengsarkar), 3-221 (Chauhan), 4-393 (Viswanath), 5-502 (Gaekwad), 6-604 (Kapil Dev), 7-609 (Kirmani)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
N Phillip	27	4	89	1	3.29
MD Marshall	34	3	123	1	3.61
VA Holder	43	6	118	0	2.74
HA Gomes	1	0	4	0	4.00
RR Jumadeen	45.4	4	137	3	3.00
DR Parry	39	6	127	2	3.25


West Indies 1st innings			R	M	4s	6s
	AE Greenidge	lbw b Ghavri	20			0
	SFAF Bacchus	hit wicket b Venkataraghavan	250	510	33	0
	HA Gomes	c Vengsarkar b Chandrasekhar	37			0
	RR Jumadeen	b Kapil Dev	56	144		0
	AI Kallicharran	c Kirmani b Ghavri	4			0
	DA Murray	c sub b Ghavri	44	215		0
	S Shivnarine	c Vengsarkar b Amarnath	2		0	0
	DR Parry	c Vengsarkar b Ghavri	4			0
	N Phillip	not out	10			0
	MD Marshall	not out	1		0	0
	Extras	(b 9, lb 9, nb 6)	24

	Total	(8 wickets; 148.1 overs)	452	(3.05 runs per over)

Did not bat VA Holder

Fall of wickets1-37 (Greenidge), 2-134 (Gomes), 3-263 (Jumadeen), 4-268 (Kallicharran), 5-428 (Bacchus), 6-431 (Shivnarine), 7-440 (Murray), 8-443 (Parry)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
N Kapil Dev	20	0	98	1	4.90
KD Ghavri	31	4	118	4	3.80
BS Chandrasekhar	41	10	117	1	2.85
S Venkataraghavan	46.1	16	60	1	1.29
M Amarnath	10	1	35	1	3.50

Toss India, who chose to bat first
Series India won the 6-match series 1-0

Umpires PR Punjabi and B Satyaji Rao

Close of play
2 Feb day 1 - India 1st innings 249/3 (GR Viswanath 94*, AD Gaekwad 0*)
3 Feb day 2 - India 1st innings 498/4 (AD Gaekwad 101*, M Amarnath 48*)
4 Feb day 3 - West Indies 1st innings 137/2 (SFAF Bacchus 72*, RR Jumadeen 2*)
5 Feb rest day
6 Feb day 4 - West Indies 1st innings 373/4 (SFAF Bacchus 204*, DA Murray 35*)
7 Feb day 5 - no play
8 Feb day 6 - West Indies 1st innings 452/8 (148.1 ov) - end of match

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