- Test no. 487 | 1959/60 season
- Played at Eden Gardens, Calcutta
- 23,24,25,27,28 January 1960 (5-day match)
| India 1st innings | R | 4s | 6s | |||
| BK Kunderan† | b Mackay | 12 | 0 | |||
| NJ Contractor | b Benaud | 36 | 0 | |||
| P Roy | c †Grout b Davidson | 33 | 0 | |||
| RG Nadkarni | c Burge b Lindwall | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| RB Kenny | c †Grout b Lindwall | 7 | 0 | |||
| CD Gopinath | b Benaud | 39 | 0 | |||
| CG Borde | b Benaud | 6 | 0 | |||
| GS Ramchand* | b Davidson | 12 | 0 | |||
| ML Jaisimha | not out | 20 | 0 | |||
| RB Desai | c †Grout b Davidson | 17 | 0 | |||
| JM Patel | run out | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Extras | (b 5, lb 1, w 1, nb 3) | 10 | ||||
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| Total | (all out; 89.3 overs) | 194 | (2.16 runs per over) | |||
| Fall of wickets1-30 (Kunderan), 2-59 (Contractor), 3-71 (Nadkarni), 4-83 (Kenny), 5-112 (Roy), 6-131 (Borde), 7-142 (Gopinath), 8-158 (Ramchand), 9-194 (Desai), 10-194 (Patel) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| AK Davidson | 16 | 2 | 37 | 3 | 2.31 | |||
| I Meckiff | 17 | 5 | 28 | 0 | 1.64 | |||
| KD Mackay | 11 | 5 | 16 | 1 | 1.45 | |||
| RR Lindwall | 16 | 6 | 44 | 2 | 2.75 | |||
| R Benaud | 29.3 | 12 | 59 | 3 | 2.00 |
| Australia 1st innings | R | 4s | 6s | |||
| LE Favell | b Desai | 26 | 0 | |||
| ATW Grout† | b Patel | 50 | 0 | |||
| RN Harvey | c Jaisimha b Patel | 17 | 0 | |||
| NC O'Neill | c †Kunderan b Desai | 113 | 15 | 0 | ||
| PJP Burge | b Desai | 60 | 0 | |||
| CC McDonald | lbw b Borde | 27 | 0 | |||
| KD Mackay | b Patel | 18 | 0 | |||
| RR Lindwall | c †Kunderan b Desai | 10 | 0 | |||
| AK Davidson | b Borde | 4 | 0 | |||
| R Benaud* | c & b Borde | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| I Meckiff | not out | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Extras | (lb 3) | 3 | ||||
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| Total | (all out; 111.1 overs) | 331 | (2.97 runs per over) | |||
| Fall of wickets1-76 (Grout), 2-76 (Favell), 3-116 (Harvey), 4-266 (O'Neill), 5-273 (Burge), 6-299 (Mackay), 7-323 (McDonald), 8-325 (Lindwall), 9-328 (Benaud), 10-331 (Davidson) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| RB Desai | 36 | 4 | 111 | 4 | 3.08 | |||
| GS Ramchand | 10 | 1 | 37 | 0 | 3.70 | |||
| JM Patel | 26 | 2 | 104 | 3 | 4.00 | |||
| RG Nadkarni | 22 | 10 | 36 | 0 | 1.63 | |||
| CG Borde | 13.1 | 4 | 23 | 3 | 1.74 | |||
| ML Jaisimha | 4 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 4.25 |
| India 2nd innings | R | 4s | 6s | |||
| BK Kunderan† | b Davidson | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| NJ Contractor | c Davidson b Benaud | 30 | 0 | |||
| P Roy | lbw b Benaud | 39 | 0 | |||
| ML Jaisimha | b Mackay | 74 | 0 | |||
| CD Gopinath | c †Grout b Benaud | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| RG Nadkarni | c †Grout b Lindwall | 29 | 0 | |||
| CG Borde | b Meckiff | 50 | 0 | |||
| RB Kenny | c †Grout b Mackay | 62 | 0 | |||
| GS Ramchand* | b Benaud | 9 | 0 | |||
| RB Desai | not out | 17 | 0 | |||
| JM Patel | c Benaud b Davidson | 12 | 0 | |||
| Extras | (b 11, lb 4, nb 2) | 17 | ||||
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| Total | (all out; 146.2 overs) | 339 | (2.31 runs per over) | |||
| Fall of wickets1-0 (Kunderan), 2-67 (Contractor), 3-78 (Roy), 4-78 (Gopinath), 5-123 (Nadkarni), 6-206 (Borde), 7-289 (Jaisimha), 8-294 (Kenny), 9-316 (Ramchand), 10-339 (Patel) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| AK Davidson | 36.2 | 13 | 76 | 2 | 2.09 | |||
| I Meckiff | 21 | 2 | 41 | 1 | 1.95 | |||
| KD Mackay | 21 | 7 | 36 | 2 | 1.71 | |||
| RR Lindwall | 20 | 3 | 66 | 1 | 3.30 | |||
| R Benaud | 48 | 23 | 103 | 4 | 2.14 |
| Australia 2nd innings (target: 203 runs) | R | 6s | |||
| LE Favell | not out | 62 | 0 | ||
| CC McDonald | run out | 6 | 0 | ||
| RN Harvey | c & b Contractor | 36 | 0 | ||
| R Benaud* | not out | 10 | 0 | ||
| Extras | (b 1, lb 5, nb 1) | 7 | |||
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| Total | (2 wickets; 52 overs) | 121 | (2.32 runs per over) | ||
| Did not bat ATW Grout†, NC O'Neill, PJP Burge, KD Mackay, RR Lindwall, AK Davidson, I Meckiff |
| Fall of wickets1-20 (McDonald), 2-104 (Harvey) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| RB Desai | 11 | 4 | 18 | 0 | 1.63 | |||
| GS Ramchand | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1.33 | |||
| JM Patel | 7 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 2.14 | |||
| RG Nadkarni | 7 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 1.42 | |||
| CG Borde | 13 | 1 | 45 | 0 | 3.46 | |||
| ML Jaisimha | 6 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 2.16 | |||
| NJ Contractor | 5 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 1.80 |
| Match details |
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Toss India, who chose to bat Series Australia won the 5-match series 2-1 |
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Umpires
SK Ganguli and ND Sane |
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Close of play 23 Jan day 1 - India 1st innings 158/7 (GS Ramchand 12*, ML Jaisimha 2*) 24 Jan day 2 - Australia 1st innings 229/3 (NC O'Neill 93*, PJP Burge 43*) 25 Jan day 3 - India 2nd innings 67/2 (P Roy 31*, ML Jaisimha 0*) 26 Jan rest day 27 Jan day 4 - India 2nd innings 243/6 (ML Jaisimha 59*, RB Kenny 26*) 28 Jan day 5 - Australia 2nd innings 121/2 (52 ov) - end of match |
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