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Test no. 851

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

1979 season

Played at Edgbaston, Birmingham, on 12,13,14,16 July 1979 (5-day match)

Result England won by an innings and 83 runs


England 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	JM Brearley	c Reddy b Kapil Dev	24	116	95	2	0	25.26
	G Boycott	lbw b Kapil Dev	155	458	341	12	0	45.45
	DW Randall	c Reddy b Kapil Dev	15	31	31	3	0	48.38
	GA Gooch	c Reddy b Kapil Dev	83	122	109	13	1	76.14
	DI Gower	not out	200	365	279	24	0	71.68
	IT Botham	b Kapil Dev	33	33	39	4	1	84.61
	G Miller	not out	63	144	116	5	0	54.31
	Extras	(b 4, lb 27, w 11, nb 18)	60

	Total	(5 wickets dec; 165.2 overs)	633	(3.82 runs per over)

Did not bat PH Edmonds,

RW Taylor, RGD Willis, M Hendrick

Fall of wickets1-66 (Brearley), 2-90 (Randall), 3-235 (Gooch), 4-426 (Boycott), 5-468 (Botham)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
N Kapil Dev	48	15	146	5	3.04
KD Ghavri	38	5	129	0	3.39
M Amarnath	13.2	2	47	0	3.52
BS Chandrasekhar	29	1	113	0	3.89
S Venkataraghavan	31	4	107	0	3.45
AD Gaekwad	3	0	12	0	4.00
CPS Chauhan	3	0	19	0	6.33


India 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	SM Gavaskar	run out	61	178	160	3	0	38.12
	CPS Chauhan	c Gooch b Botham	4	16	8	1	0	50.00
	DB Vengsarkar	c Gooch b Edmonds	22	58	57	4	0	38.59
	GR Viswanath	c Botham b Edmonds	78	213	181	9	0	43.09
	AD Gaekwad	c Botham b Willis	25	126	124	3	0	20.16
	M Amarnath	b Willis	31	67	47	6	0	65.95
	N Kapil Dev	lbw b Botham	1	4	6	0	0	16.66
	KD Ghavri	c Brearley b Willis	6	29	25	1	0	24.00
	B Reddy	b Hendrick	21	75	57	3	0	36.84
	S Venkataraghavan	c Botham b Hendrick	28	52	46	3	2	60.86
	BS Chandrasekhar	not out	0	4	0	0	0	-
	Extras	(b 1, lb 4, w 3, nb 12)	20

	Total	(all out; 116.1 overs)	297	(2.55 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-15 (Chauhan), 2-59 (Vengsarkar), 3-129 (Gavaskar), 4-205 (Viswanath), 5-209 (Gaekwad), 6-210 (Kapil Dev), 7-229 (Ghavri), 8-251 (Amarnath), 9-294 (Venkataraghavan), 10-297 (Reddy)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
RGD Willis	24	9	69	3	2.87
IT Botham	26	4	86	2	3.30
M Hendrick	24.1	9	36	2	1.48
PH Edmonds	26	11	60	2	2.30
G Boycott	5	1	8	0	1.60
G Miller	11	3	18	0	1.63


India 2nd innings (following on)			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	SM Gavaskar	c Gooch b Hendrick	68	137	117	10	0	58.11
	CPS Chauhan	c Randall b Willis	56	167	142	8	0	39.43
	DB Vengsarkar	c Edmonds b Hendrick	7	32	24	0	0	29.16
	GR Viswanath	c Taylor b Botham	51	133	119	6	0	42.85
	AD Gaekwad	c Gooch b Botham	15	60	54	3	0	27.77
	M Amarnath	lbw b Botham	10	77	69	1	0	14.49
	N Kapil Dev	c Hendrick b Botham	21	18	17	4	0	123.52
	KD Ghavri	c Randall b Hendrick	4	30	25	0	0	16.00
	B Reddy	lbw b Hendrick	0	7	1	0	0	0.00
	S Venkataraghavan	lbw b Botham	0	4	6	0	0	0.00
	BS Chandrasekhar	not out	0	4	3	0	0	0.00
	Extras	(b 7, lb 12, nb 2)	21

	Total	(all out; 95.4 overs)	253	(2.64 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-124 (Gavaskar), 2-136 (Chauhan), 3-136 (Vengsarkar), 4-182 (Gaekwad), 5-227 (Viswanath), 6-240 (Amarnath), 7-249 (Kapil Dev), 8-250 (Reddy), 9-251 (Venkataraghavan), 10-253 (Ghavri)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
RGD Willis	14	3	45	1	3.21
IT Botham	29	8	70	5	2.41
M Hendrick	20.4	8	45	4	2.17
PH Edmonds	17	6	37	0	2.17
G Miller	9	1	27	0	3.00
GA Gooch	6	3	8	0	1.33

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

Test debut B Reddy (India)
Player of the match DI Gower (England)

Umpires DJ Constant and BJ Meyer

Close of play
12 Jul day 1 - England 1st innings 318/3 (G Boycott 113*, DI Gower 43*)
13 Jul day 2 - India 1st innings 59/2 (SM Gavaskar 25*)
14 Jul day 3 - India 2nd innings 7/0 (SM Gavaskar 3*, CPS Chauhan 2*)
15 Jul rest day
16 Jul day 4 - India 2nd innings 253 (95.4 ov) - end of match

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