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Test no. 624

India in Australia Test Series - 1st Test
Australia v India

1967/68 season

Played at Adelaide Oval on 23,25,26,27,28 December 1967 (5-day match)

Result Australia won by 146 runs


Australia 1st innings			R	M	4s	6s
	RB Simpson	c & b Abid Ali	55	144	2	0
	WM Lawry	c Engineer b Abid Ali	42	125	2	0
	AP Sheahan	lbw b Prasanna	81	121	10	0
	RM Cowper	c Engineer b Abid Ali	92	255	7	0
	IR Redpath	c Borde b Prasanna	0	1	0	0
	IM Chappell	c Borde b Prasanna	2	15	0	0
	BN Jarman	b Abid Ali	34	94	3	0
	GD McKenzie	c Borde b Abid Ali	5	25	0	0
	JW Gleeson	lbw b Abid Ali	1	12	0	0
	AN Connolly	not out	7	13	0	0
	DA Renneberg	b Chandrasekhar	1	9	0	0
	Extras	(b 2, lb 10, nb 3)	15

	Total	(all out; 92.1 overs)	335	(2.72 runs per 6 balls)

Fall of wickets1-99 (Lawry), 2-109 (Simpson), 3-227 (Sheahan), 4-227 (Redpath), 5-235 (Chappell), 6-311 (Jarman), 7-319 (McKenzie), 8-324 (Cowper), 9-330 (Gleeson), 10-335 (Renneberg)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
UN Kulkarni	5	0	25	0	3.75
RF Surti	7	0	30	0	3.21
S Abid Ali	17	2	55	6	2.42
RG Nadkarni	17	2	68	0	3.00
BS Chandrasekhar	27.1	3	72	1	1.99
EAS Prasanna	17	2	60	3	2.64
V Subramanya	2	0	10	0	3.75


India 1st innings			R	M	4s	6s
	FM Engineer	c Jarman b McKenzie	89	110	14	0
	DN Sardesai	c Redpath b Renneberg	1	17	0	0
	AL Wadekar	st Jarman b Connolly	28	51	3	0
	CG Borde	lbw b Gleeson	69	195	7	0
	RF Surti	b Simpson	70	125	9	0
	RG Nadkarni	lbw b Gleeson	3	19	0	0
	S Abid Ali	c & b Connolly	33	68	4	0
	V Subramanya	b Connolly	7	26	1	0
	EAS Prasanna	c Lawry b McKenzie	1	6	0	0
	UN Kulkarni	lbw b Connolly	0	15	0	0
	BS Chandrasekhar	not out	1	9	0	0
	Extras	(nb 5)	5

	Total	(all out; 71.4 overs)	307	(3.22 runs per 6 balls)

Fall of wickets1-19 (Sardesai), 2-80 (Wadekar), 3-129 (Engineer), 4-250 (Surti), 5-259 (Nadkarni), 6-272 (Borde), 7-287 (Subramanya), 8-288 (Prasanna), 9-291 (Kulkarni), 10-307 (Abid Ali)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
GD McKenzie	15	1	70	2	3.50
DA Renneberg	6	0	45	1	5.62
AN Connolly	12.4	1	54	4	3.24
JW Gleeson	13	4	36	2	2.07
IM Chappell	10	1	41	0	3.07
RB Simpson	12	2	42	1	2.62
RM Cowper	3	0	14	0	3.50


Australia 2nd innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	RB Simpson	b Surti	103	232		12	0
	WM Lawry	c Engineer b Kulkarni	0	1	1	0	0	0.00
	AP Sheahan	lbw b Prasanna	35	67		2	0
	RM Cowper	b Abid Ali	108	211		13	0
	IM Chappell	b Surti	13	43		0	0
	BN Jarman	c & b Surti	17	36		1	0
	IR Redpath	lbw b Surti	34	64		4	0
	GD McKenzie	run out	28	79		4	0
	JW Gleeson	not out	18	59		1	0
	AN Connolly	c sub b Surti	0	4		0	0
	DA Renneberg	run out	0	7		0	0
	Extras	(b 5, lb 6, nb 2)	13

	Total	(all out; 88.5 overs)	369	(3.12 runs per 6 balls)

Fall of wickets1-0 (Lawry), 2-61 (Sheahan), 3-233 (Simpson), 4-263 (Chappell), 5-263 (Cowper), 6-295 (Jarman), 7-322 (Redpath), 8-364 (McKenzie), 9-365 (Connolly), 10-369 (Renneberg)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
UN Kulkarni	4	1	12	1	2.25
RF Surti	20.1	6	74	5	2.75
S Abid Ali	16	2	61	1	2.85
RG Nadkarni	9.4	3	24	0	1.89
BS Chandrasekhar	13	1	67	0	3.86
EAS Prasanna	25	2	109	1	3.27
V Subramanya	1	0	9	0	6.75


India 2nd innings (target: 398 runs)			R	M	4s	6s
	FM Engineer	run out	19	53	0	0
	DN Sardesai	c Jarman b Renneberg	11	38	2	0
	AL Wadekar	c Jarman b Renneberg	0	1	0	0
	CG Borde	b Renneberg	12	20	2	0
	RF Surti	c Redpath b Gleeson	53	111	1	0
	S Abid Ali	lbw b Renneberg	33	45	4	0
	V Subramanya	run out	75	146	9	0
	RG Nadkarni	b McKenzie	15	69	2	0
	EAS Prasanna	not out	18	42	3	0
	BS Chandrasekhar	c Simpson b Gleeson	0	1	0	0
	UN Kulkarni	c Chappell b Renneberg	2	18	0	0
	Extras	(b 3, lb 8, nb 2)	13

	Total	(all out; 60.2 overs)	251	(3.12 runs per 6 balls)

Fall of wickets1-24 (Sardesai), 2-24 (Wadekar), 3-46 (Engineer), 4-49 (Borde), 5-104 (Abid Ali), 6-159 (Surti), 7-209 (Nadkarni), 8-232 (Subramanya), 9-236 (Chandrasekhar), 10-251 (Kulkarni)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
GD McKenzie	17	2	91	1	4.01
DA Renneberg	14.2	2	39	5	2.05
AN Connolly	3	0	21	0	5.25
JW Gleeson	16	4	38	2	1.78
IM Chappell	5	0	24	0	3.60
RB Simpson	5	0	25	0	3.75

Balls per over 8

Toss Australia, who chose to bat first
Series Australia led the 4-match series 1-0

Test debuts JW Gleeson and AP Sheahan (Australia); S Abid Ali and UN Kulkarni (India)

Umpires CJ Egar and LP Rowan

Close of play
23 Dec day 1 - Australia 1st innings 311/6 (RM Cowper 85*)
24 Dec rest day
25 Dec day 2 - India 1st innings 288/8 (S Abid Ali 16*)
26 Dec day 3 - Australia 2nd innings 305/6 (IR Redpath 20*, GD McKenzie 5*)
27 Dec day 4 - India 2nd innings 236/9 (EAS Prasanna 5*, UN Kulkarni 0*)
28 Dec day 5 - India 2nd innings 251 (60.2 ov) - end of match

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