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India vs England Scorecard, India vs England, 16 August, 1979, Headingley & Match Stats

England vs India | August 16, 1979, 07:30 PM | Headingley

Abandoned, Canceled, No Result
England
England

270/10 (80.5 ov)

vs
India

223/6 (110.0 ov)

India

Match drawn

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Player of the Match

Sir Ian Botham - England

England 1st Innings Inning

270/10 (80.5 ov)
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Batter R B 4s 6s SR
Geoff Boycott
c Viswanath b Kapil Dev
31 65 4 0 47.69
Mike Brearley
c Viswanath b Amarnath
15 70 1 0 21.43
Graham Gooch
c Vengsarkar b Kapil Dev
4 10 0 0 40.00
David Gower
lbw b Kapil Dev
0 6 0 0 0.00
Derek Randall
b Ghavri
11 57 0 0 19.30
Sir Ian Botham
c Ghavri b Venkataraghavan
137 152 10 5 90.13
Geoff Miller
c †Reddy b Amarnath
27 53 3 0 50.94
Phil Edmonds
run out
18 49 2 0 36.73
Bob Taylor
c Chauhan b Bedi
1 15 0 0 6.67
Bob Willis
not out
4 11 0 0 36.36
Mike Hendrick
c sub b Bedi
0 8 0 0 0.00
EXTRAS ( b 4, lb 6, w 4, nb 8, p 0) 22
TOTAL (3.35 RUNS PER OVER) 270/10 (80.5 ov)

FALL OF WICKETS

53-1 (Geoff Boycott, 0 ov), 57-3 (Mike Brearley, 0 ov), 57-2 (Graham Gooch, 0 ov), 58-4 (David Gower, 0 ov), 89-5 (Derek Randall, 0 ov), 264-8 (Sir Ian Botham, 0 ov), 176-6 (Geoff Miller, 0 ov), 264-7 (Phil Edmonds, 0 ov), 266-9 (Bob Taylor, 0 ov), 270-10 (Mike Hendrick, 0 ov)

Bowling Stats

Bowler O M R W Dots NB WD ECO
Kapil Dev 27 7 84 3 0 0 0 3.11
Karsan Devjibhai Ghavri 18 4 60 1 0 0 0 3.33
Mohinder Amarnath 20 7 53 2 0 0 0 2.65
Srinivas Venkataraghavan 7 2 25 1 0 0 0 3.57
Bishan Singh Bedi 8.5 2 26 2 0 0 0 2.94

India 1st Innings Inning

223/6 (110.0 ov)
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DATE & TIME

Thursday, August 16, 1979 - 07:30 PM

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Toss England won the toss and elected to bat

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Headingley , Leeds

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