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Test no. 899

India in New Zealand Test Series - 3rd Test
New Zealand v India

1980/81 season

Played at Eden Park, Auckland, on 13,14,15,17,18 March 1981 (5-day match)

Result Match drawn


India 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	SM Gavaskar	c Smith b Snedden	5	22	21	1	0	23.80
	CPS Chauhan	c Cairns b Bracewell	36	165	132	4	0	27.27
	DB Vengsarkar	c Howarth b Snedden	0	8	6	0	0	0.00
	SM Patil	c Smith b Cairns	19	28	18	4	0	105.55
	GR Viswanath	lbw b Hadlee	2	23	17	0	0	11.76
	TE Srinivasan	c Smith b Bracewell	29	98	81	3	0	35.80
	RJ Shastri	c & b Cairns	5	52	45	0	0	11.11
	SMH Kirmani	b Bracewell	78	278	230	5	0	33.91
	N Kapil Dev	b Cairns	4	12	10	1	0	40.00
	NS Yadav	c Hadlee b Bracewell	43	213	213	3	0	20.18
	DR Doshi	not out	3	16	16	0	0	18.75
	Extras	(b 5, lb 3, nb 6)	14

	Total	(all out; 130.3 overs)	238	(1.82 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-9 (Gavaskar), 2-10 (Vengsarkar), 3-43 (Patil), 4-50 (Viswanath), 5-97 (Chauhan), 6-100 (Srinivasan), 7-114 (Shastri), 8-124 (Kapil Dev), 9-229 (Yadav), 10-238 (Kirmani)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
RJ Hadlee	27	11	49	1	1.81
MC Snedden	22	7	52	2	2.36
BL Cairns	27	13	37	3	1.37
JV Coney	9	1	14	0	1.55
JG Bracewell	42.3	17	61	4	1.43
GP Howarth	3	0	11	0	3.66


New Zealand 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	JG Wright	c Kirmani b Chauhan	110	460	434	10	1	25.34
	BA Edgar	c Shastri b Patil	0	5	2	0	0	0.00
	JF Reid	c Viswanath b Shastri	74	272	269	5	0	27.50
	GP Howarth	c sub b Shastri	0	15	17	0	0	0.00
	JV Coney	c & b Doshi	65	261	207	7	0	31.40
	GN Edwards	c & b Doshi	34	61	50	4	0	68.00
	RJ Hadlee	c Chauhan b Yadav	0	5	7	0	0	0.00
	BL Cairns	c Gavaskar b Shastri	41	98	72	4	1	56.94
	IDS Smith	b Shastri	10	27	23	2	0	43.47
	JG Bracewell	lbw b Shastri	1	31	38	0	0	2.63
	MC Snedden	not out	0	10	7	0	0	0.00
	Extras	(b 14, lb 10, nb 7)	31

	Total	(all out; 186 overs)	366	(1.96 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-0 (Edgar), 2-148 (Reid), 3-152 (Howarth), 4-251 (Wright), 5-301 (Edwards), 6-302 (Hadlee), 7-332 (Coney), 8-354 (Smith), 9-365 (Bracewell), 10-366 (Cairns)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
N Kapil Dev	20	6	34	0	1.70
SM Patil	6	4	2	1	0.33
NS Yadav	33	8	91	1	2.75
DR Doshi	69	34	79	2	1.14
RJ Shastri	56	13	125	5	2.23
CPS Chauhan	2	0	4	1	2.00


India 2nd innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	SM Gavaskar	c Wright b Bracewell	33	115	101	5	0	32.67
	CPS Chauhan	c Cairns b Bracewell	7	86	52	0	0	13.46
	TE Srinivasan	c Wright b Cairns	19	119	105	3	0	18.09
	GR Viswanath	run out	46	153	137	6	0	33.57
	DB Vengsarkar	not out	52	242	184	5	0	28.26
	SM Patil	b Bracewell	57	100	93	8	1	61.29
	N Kapil Dev	c Edgar b Cairns	14	24	17	2	1	82.35
	SMH Kirmani	b Bracewell	1	3	5	0	0	20.00
	RJ Shastri	run out	9	30	34	2	0	26.47
	NS Yadav	c Smith b Bracewell	1	4	5	0	0	20.00
	DR Doshi	b Cairns	2	6	4	0	0	50.00
	Extras	(b 23, lb 7, nb 13)	43

	Total	(all out; 120.5 overs)	284	(2.35 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-43 (Chauhan), 2-50 (Gavaskar), 3-93 (Srinivasan), 4-143 (Viswanath), 5-236 (Patil), 6-260 (Kapil Dev), 7-261 (Kirmani), 8-277 (Shastri), 9-279 (Yadav), 10-284 (Doshi)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
RJ Hadlee	21	3	65	0	3.09
MC Snedden	13	4	40	0	3.07
BL Cairns	35.5	16	47	3	1.31
JV Coney	4	1	3	0	0.75
JG Bracewell	41	19	75	5	1.82
GP Howarth	6	3	11	0	1.83


New Zealand 2nd innings (target: 157 runs)			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	JG Wright	not out	33	218	194	2	0	17.01
	BA Edgar	c Kirmani b Kapil Dev	1	9	7	0	0	14.28
	GN Edwards	c & b Shastri	47	132	96	2	1	48.95
	RJ Hadlee	b Shastri	2	12	11	0	0	18.18
	GP Howarth	c Chauhan b Doshi	2	52	49	0	0	4.08
	JF Reid	lbw b Doshi	0	6	6	0	0	0.00
	JV Coney	not out	0	2	1	0	0	0.00
	Extras	(b 3, lb 4, nb 3)	10

	Total	(5 wickets; 62 overs)	95	(1.53 runs per over)

Did not bat BL Cairns,

IDS Smith, JG Bracewell, MC Snedden

Fall of wickets1-1 (Edgar), 2-83 (Edwards), 3-87 (Hadlee), 4-94 (Howarth), 5-95 (Reid)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
N Kapil Dev	10	6	15	1	1.50
SM Patil	4	0	8	0	2.00
NS Yadav	11	4	20	0	1.81
DR Doshi	19	9	18	2	0.94
RJ Shastri	18	8	24	2	1.33

Toss India, who chose to bat first
Series New Zealand won the 3-match series 1-0

Test debut TE Srinivasan (India)
Players of the match RJ Shastri (India) and JG Wright (New Zealand)
Player of the series JF Reid (New Zealand)

Umpires FR Goodall and SJ Woodward

Close of play
13 Mar day 1 - India 1st innings 184/8 (SMH Kirmani 42*, NS Yadav 28*)
14 Mar day 2 - New Zealand 1st innings 127/1 (JG Wright 55*, JF Reid 66*)
15 Mar day 3 - New Zealand 1st innings 357/8 (BL Cairns 34*, JG Bracewell 0*)
16 Mar rest day
17 Mar day 4 - India 2nd innings 197/4 (DB Vengsarkar 20*, SM Patil 36*)
18 Mar day 5 - New Zealand 2nd innings 95/5 (62 ov) - end of match

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