- Test no. 404 | 1954/55 season
- Played at Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad
- 11,12,13,14,15,16 April 1955 (6-day match)
| West Indies 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| JKC Holt | c Johnston b Lindwall | 25 | 0 | |||||
| JB Stollmeyer* | b Lindwall | 14 | 0 | |||||
| CL Walcott | st †Langley b Benaud | 126 | 17 | 0 | ||||
| ED Weekes | c Johnson b Benaud | 139 | 210 | 24 | 1 | |||
| OG Smith | b Benaud | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| GS Sobers | c †Langley b Lindwall | 47 | 0 | |||||
| CA McWatt† | c Benaud b Miller | 4 | 0 | |||||
| FM King | b Lindwall | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| S Ramadhin | b Lindwall | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| LS Butler | c Johnson b Lindwall | 16 | 0 | |||||
| AL Valentine | not out | 4 | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (b 1, lb 3, nb 1) | 5 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 104.5 overs) | 382 | (3.64 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-39 (Stollmeyer), 2-40 (Holt), 3-282 (Weekes), 4-282 (Smith), 5-323 (Walcott), 6-355 (McWatt), 7-360 (King), 8-360 (Ramadhin), 9-361 (Sobers), 10-382 (Butler) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| RR Lindwall | 24.5 | 3 | 95 | 6 | 3.82 | |||
| KR Miller | 28 | 8 | 96 | 1 | 3.42 | |||
| RG Archer | 9 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 4.66 | |||
| WA Johnston | 7 | 2 | 29 | 0 | 4.14 | |||
| IWG Johnson | 19 | 5 | 72 | 0 | 3.78 | |||
| R Benaud | 17 | 3 | 43 | 3 | 2.52 |
| Australia 1st innings | R | M | 4s | 6s | |||
| CC McDonald | c Walcott b Valentine | 110 | 256 | 0 | |||
| AR Morris | c King b Butler | 111 | 0 | ||||
| RN Harvey | lbw b King | 133 | 242 | 0 | |||
| WJ Watson | lbw b Ramadhin | 27 | 79 | 0 | |||
| R Benaud | c Walcott b Ramadhin | 5 | 1 | 0 | |||
| KR Miller | run out | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||
| RG Archer | c †McWatt b Valentine | 84 | 12 | 1 | |||
| IWG Johnson* | c †McWatt b Butler | 66 | 0 | ||||
| RR Lindwall | not out | 37 | 0 | ||||
| GRA Langley† | c King b Walcott | 9 | 0 | ||||
| WA Johnston | not out | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Extras | (b 5, lb 6, w 1, nb 2) | 14 | |||||
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| Total | (9 wickets dec; 201 overs) | 600 | (2.98 runs per over) | ||||
| Fall of wickets1-191 (McDonald), 2-259 (Morris), 3-328 (Watson), 4-336 (Benaud), 5-345 (Miller), 6-439 (Harvey), 7-529 (Archer), 8-570 (Johnson), 9-594 (Langley) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| LS Butler | 40 | 7 | 151 | 2 | 3.77 | |||
| FM King | 37 | 7 | 98 | 1 | 2.64 | |||
| JKC Holt | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |||
| S Ramadhin | 32 | 8 | 90 | 2 | 2.81 | |||
| AL Valentine | 49 | 12 | 133 | 2 | 2.71 | |||
| CL Walcott | 19 | 5 | 45 | 1 | 2.36 | |||
| GS Sobers | 3 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 3.33 | |||
| OG Smith | 15 | 1 | 48 | 0 | 3.20 | |||
| JB Stollmeyer | 5 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 2.20 |
| West Indies 2nd innings | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
| JKC Holt | lbw b Archer | 21 | 0 | |||||
| JB Stollmeyer* | b Johnson | 42 | 0 | |||||
| CL Walcott | c Watson b Archer | 110 | 13 | 0 | ||||
| ED Weekes | not out | 87 | 1 | |||||
| OG Smith | c †Langley b Archer | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| GS Sobers | not out | 8 | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (lb 3, nb 2) | 5 | ||||||
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| Total | (4 wickets; 62 overs) | 273 | (4.40 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat CA McWatt†, FM King, S Ramadhin, LS Butler, AL Valentine |
| Fall of wickets1-40 (Holt), 2-103 (Stollmeyer), 3-230 (Walcott), 4-236 (Smith) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| RR Lindwall | 17 | 0 | 70 | 0 | 4.11 | |||
| KR Miller | 11 | 0 | 52 | 0 | 4.72 | |||
| RG Archer | 8 | 1 | 37 | 3 | 4.62 | |||
| WA Johnston | 7 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 4.42 | |||
| IWG Johnson | 7 | 2 | 26 | 1 | 3.71 | |||
| R Benaud | 12 | 2 | 52 | 0 | 4.33 |
| Match details |
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Toss West Indies, who chose to bat Series Australia led the 5-match series 1-0 |
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Test debut
LS Butler
(West Indies) |
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Umpires
HBD Jordan and EN Lee Kow |
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Close of play 11 Apr day 1 - West Indies 1st innings 73/2 (CL Walcott 7*, ED Weekes 27*) 12 Apr day 2 - West Indies 1st innings 355/5 (GS Sobers 43*, CA McWatt 4*) 13 Apr day 3 - Australia 1st innings 147/0 (CC McDonald 90*, AR Morris 50*) 14 Apr day 4 - Australia 1st innings 447/6 (RG Archer 47*, IWG Johnson 0*) 15 Apr day 5 - West Indies 2nd innings 40/1 (JB Stollmeyer 17*) 16 Apr day 6 - West Indies 2nd innings 273/4 (62 ov) - end of match |
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