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Test no. 819

The Frank Worrell Trophy - 1st Test
West Indies v Australia

1977/78 season

Played at Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad, on 3,4,5 March 1978 (5-day match)

Result West Indies won by an innings and 106 runs


Australia 1st innings			R	M	4s	6s
	GM Wood	c Haynes b Croft	2	25	0	0
	CS Serjeant	c Murray b Croft	3	64	0	0
	GN Yallop	c Richards b Croft	2	18	0	0
	PM Toohey	b Garner	20	66	2	0
	RB Simpson	lbw b Garner	0	13	0	0
	GJ Cosier	c Greenidge b Croft	46	88	7	0
	SJ Rixon	run out	1	9	0	0
	B Yardley	c Murray b Roberts	2	19	0	0
	JR Thomson	c Austin b Roberts	0	4	0	0
	WM Clark	b Garner	0	15	0	0
	JD Higgs	not out	0	6	0	0
	Extras	(b 4, lb 6, nb 4)	14

	Total	(all out; 35.1 overs)	90	(2.55 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-7 (Wood), 2-10 (Yallop), 3-16 (Serjeant), 4-23 (Simpson), 4-37* (Toohey, retired not out), 5-45 (Rixon), 6-75 (Yardley), 7-75 (Thomson), 8-84 (Clark), 9-90 (Toohey), 10-90 (Cosier)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
AME Roberts	12	4	26	2	2.16
CEH Croft	9.1	5	15	4	1.63
J Garner	14	6	35	3	2.50


West Indies 1st innings			R	M	4s	6s
	CG Greenidge	b Yardley	43	145	8	0
	DL Haynes	c Rixon b Higgs	61	75	7	2
	IVA Richards	lbw b Thomson	39	64	5	0
	AI Kallicharran	b Yardley	127	258	17	0
	CH Lloyd	b Thomson	86	160	10	1
	RA Austin	c sub (TJ Laughlin) b Thomson	2	26	0	0
	DL Murray	c Rixon b Higgs	21	70	1	0
	DR Parry	b Yardley	0	2	0	0
	AME Roberts	st Rixon b Higgs	7	39	0	0
	J Garner	c Cosier b Higgs	0	3	0	0
	CEH Croft	not out	4	20	0	0
	Extras	(lb 9, nb 6)	15

	Total	(all out; 109.5 overs)	405	(3.68 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-87 (Haynes), 2-143 (Richards), 3-143 (Greenidge), 4-313 (Lloyd), 5-324 (Austin), 6-385 (Kallicharran), 7-385 (Parry), 8-391 (Murray), 9-391 (Garner), 10-405 (Roberts)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
JR Thomson	21	6	84	3	4.00
WM Clark	16	3	41	0	2.56
JD Higgs	24.5	3	91	4	3.66
RB Simpson	16	2	65	0	4.06
B Yardley	19	1	64	3	3.36
GJ Cosier	13	2	45	0	3.46


Australia 2nd innings			R	M	4s	6s
	GM Wood	lbw b Roberts	32	54	4	0
	CS Serjeant	lbw b Garner	40	79	7	0
	GN Yallop	b Roberts	81	195	7	0
	GJ Cosier	lbw b Garner	19	110	0	1
	RB Simpson	b Parry	14	68	0	0
	SJ Rixon	lbw b Roberts	0	2	0	0
	B Yardley	not out	7	18	1	0
	JR Thomson	b Parry	4	2	0	0
	WM Clark	b Roberts	0	3	0	0
	JD Higgs	b Roberts	2	6	0	0
	PM Toohey	absent hurt	-
	Extras	(b 6, lb 1, w 1, nb 2)	10

	Total	(all out; 63.2 overs)	209	(3.30 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-59 (Wood), 2-90 (Serjeant), 3-149 (Cosier), 4-194 (Yallop), 5-194 (Rixon), 6-194 (Simpson), 7-200 (Thomson), 8-201 (Clark), 9-209 (Higgs)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
AME Roberts	16.2	3	56	5	3.42
CEH Croft	13	1	55	0	4.23
J Garner	17	5	39	2	2.29
DR Parry	17	1	49	2	2.88

Toss West Indies, who chose to field first
Series West Indies led the 5-match series 1-0

Test debuts JD Higgs (Australia); RA Austin, DL Haynes and DR Parry (West Indies)

Umpires RR Gosein and D Sang Hue

Close of play
3 Mar day 1 - West Indies 1st innings 79/0 (CG Greenidge 26*, DL Haynes 53*)
4 Mar day 2 - West Indies 1st innings 391/9 (AME Roberts 2*, CEH Croft 0*)
5 Mar day 3 - Australia 2nd innings 209 (63.2 ov) - end of match

Match notes

PM Toohey (1) retired hurt on 15* from 37/4 to 84/8

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