Australia in India Test Series - 1st Test
Australia won by an innings and 127 runs
- Test no. 482 | 1959/60 season
- Played at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
- 12,13,14,16 December 1959 (5-day match)
| India 1st innings | R | M | 4s | 6s | |||
| P Roy | c †Grout b Davidson | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| NJ Contractor | b Davidson | 41 | 130 | 0 | |||
| PR Umrigar | c †Grout b Davidson | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| AA Baig | b Rorke | 9 | 0 | ||||
| CG Borde | c †Grout b Meckiff | 14 | 0 | ||||
| GS Ramchand* | c †Grout b Kline | 20 | 0 | ||||
| RG Nadkarni | b Rorke | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| PG Joshi† | b Benaud | 15 | 0 | ||||
| Surendranath | not out | 24 | 0 | ||||
| VM Muddiah | lbw b Benaud | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| RB Desai | c O'Neill b Benaud | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Extras | (b 6, lb 2, nb 3) | 11 | |||||
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| Total | (all out; 59.4 overs) | 135 | (2.26 runs per over) | ||||
| Fall of wickets1-4 (Roy), 2-8 (Umrigar), 3-32 (Baig), 4-66 (Borde), 5-69 (Contractor), 6-70 (Nadkarni), 7-100 (Ramchand), 8-131 (Joshi), 9-135 (Muddiah), 10-135 (Desai) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| AK Davidson | 14 | 9 | 22 | 3 | 1.57 | |||
| I Meckiff | 17 | 4 | 52 | 1 | 3.05 | |||
| GF Rorke | 14 | 5 | 30 | 2 | 2.14 | |||
| LF Kline | 9 | 3 | 15 | 1 | 1.66 | |||
| R Benaud | 3.4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0.00 | |||
| KD Mackay | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.00 | |||
| NC O'Neill | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4.00 |
| Australia 1st innings | R | M | 6s | |||
| CC McDonald | b Surendranath | 20 | 0 | |||
| LE Favell | b Surendranath | 39 | 0 | |||
| RN Harvey | lbw b Nadkarni | 114 | 230 | 0 | ||
| NC O'Neill | run out | 39 | 0 | |||
| KD Mackay | c †Joshi b Umrigar | 78 | 0 | |||
| AK Davidson | c Baig b Desai | 25 | 1 | |||
| R Benaud* | c Borde b Umrigar | 20 | 0 | |||
| ATW Grout† | b Umrigar | 42 | 0 | |||
| LF Kline | c & b Ramchand | 14 | 0 | |||
| I Meckiff | not out | 45 | 0 | |||
| GF Rorke | c sub b Umrigar | 7 | 0 | |||
| Extras | (b 11, lb 13, nb 1) | 25 | ||||
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| Total | (all out; 143 overs) | 468 | (3.27 runs per over) | |||
| Fall of wickets1-53 (McDonald), 2-64 (Favell), 3-143 (O'Neill), 4-275 (Harvey), 5-318 (Davidson), 6-353 (Mackay), 7-398 (Benaud), 8-402 (Grout), 9-443 (Kline), 10-468 (Rorke) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| RB Desai | 34.3 | 3 | 123 | 1 | 3.56 | |||
| Surendranath | 38 | 8 | 101 | 2 | 2.65 | |||
| CG Borde | 15 | 3 | 49 | 0 | 3.26 | |||
| VM Muddiah | 13 | 4 | 32 | 0 | 2.46 | |||
| RG Nadkarni | 20 | 6 | 62 | 1 | 3.10 | |||
| GS Ramchand | 7 | 1 | 27 | 1 | 3.85 | |||
| PR Umrigar | 15.3 | 1 | 49 | 4 | 3.16 |
| India 2nd innings | R | 4s | 6s | |||
| P Roy | c Benaud b Kline | 99 | 0 | |||
| NJ Contractor | c Favell b Benaud | 34 | 0 | |||
| AA Baig | run out | 5 | 0 | |||
| CG Borde | c Davidson b Benaud | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| PR Umrigar | c Favell b Kline | 32 | 0 | |||
| GS Ramchand* | c Davidson b Kline | 6 | 0 | |||
| RG Nadkarni | lbw b Benaud | 7 | 0 | |||
| PG Joshi† | c Davidson b Kline | 8 | 0 | |||
| Surendranath | c Davidson b Benaud | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| VM Muddiah | not out | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| RB Desai | c Meckiff b Benaud | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Extras | (b 8, lb 5, nb 2) | 15 | ||||
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| Total | (all out; 111 overs) | 206 | (1.85 runs per over) | |||
| Fall of wickets1-121 (Contractor), 2-132 (Baig), 3-132 (Borde), 4-172 (Roy), 5-187 (Umrigar), 6-192 (Ramchand), 7-202 (Nadkarni), 8-206 (Joshi), 9-206 (Surendranath), 10-206 (Desai) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| AK Davidson | 14 | 5 | 16 | 0 | 1.14 | |||
| I Meckiff | 14 | 3 | 33 | 0 | 2.35 | |||
| GF Rorke | 7 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0.71 | |||
| LF Kline | 24 | 12 | 42 | 4 | 1.75 | |||
| R Benaud | 46 | 18 | 76 | 5 | 1.65 | |||
| NC O'Neill | 5 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 3.80 | |||
| RN Harvey | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss India, who chose to bat Series Australia led the 5-match series 1-0 |
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Test debut
VM Muddiah
(India) |
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Umpires
SK Ganguli and Mohammad Yunus |
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Close of play 12 Dec day 1 - Australia 1st innings 22/0 (CC McDonald 9*, LE Favell 13*) 13 Dec day 2 - Australia 1st innings 293/4 (KD Mackay 50*, AK Davidson 12*) 14 Dec day 3 - India 2nd innings 46/0 (P Roy 25*, NJ Contractor 12*) 15 Dec rest day 16 Dec day 4 - India 2nd innings 206 (111 ov) - end of match |
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