- Test no. 692 | 1971 season
- Played at Kennington Oval, London
- 19,20,21,23,24 August 1971 (5-day match)
| England 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| BW Luckhurst | c Gavaskar b Solkar | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16.66 | |
| JA Jameson | run out | 82 | 162 | 152 | 10 | 2 | 53.94 | |
| JH Edrich | c †Engineer b Bedi | 41 | 124 | 118 | 4 | 0 | 34.74 | |
| KWR Fletcher | c Gavaskar b Bedi | 1 | 21 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 6.66 | |
| BL D'Oliveira | c Mankad b Chandrasekhar | 2 | 16 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 10.52 | |
| APE Knott† | c & b Solkar | 90 | 117 | 116 | 11 | 1 | 77.58 | |
| R Illingworth* | b Chandrasekhar | 11 | 39 | 35 | 1 | 0 | 31.42 | |
| RA Hutton | b Venkataraghavan | 81 | 132 | 125 | 13 | 0 | 64.80 | |
| JA Snow | c †Engineer b Solkar | 3 | 15 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 18.75 | |
| DL Underwood | c Wadekar b Venkataraghavan | 22 | 54 | 47 | 2 | 0 | 46.80 | |
| JSE Price | not out | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 15, w 1) | 20 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 108.4 overs) | 355 | (3.26 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-5 (Luckhurst), 2-111 (Edrich), 3-135 (Fletcher), 4-139 (Jameson), 5-143 (D'Oliveira), 6-175 (Illingworth), 7-278 (Knott), 8-284 (Snow), 9-352 (Underwood), 10-355 (Hutton) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| S Abid Ali | 12 | 2 | 47 | 0 | 3.91 | |||
| ED Solkar | 15 | 4 | 28 | 3 | 1.86 | |||
| SM Gavaskar | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.00 | |||
| BS Bedi | 36 | 5 | 120 | 2 | 3.33 | |||
| BS Chandrasekhar | 24 | 6 | 76 | 2 | 3.16 | |||
| S Venkataraghavan | 20.4 | 3 | 63 | 2 | 3.04 |
| India 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| SM Gavaskar | b Snow | 6 | 49 | 35 | 1 | 0 | 17.14 | |
| AV Mankad | b Price | 10 | 38 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 35.71 | |
| AL Wadekar* | c Hutton b Illingworth | 48 | 171 | 133 | 2 | 0 | 36.09 | |
| DN Sardesai | b Illingworth | 54 | 135 | 139 | 7 | 0 | 38.84 | |
| GR Viswanath | b Illingworth | 0 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| ED Solkar | c Fletcher b D'Oliveira | 44 | 129 | 125 | 3 | 0 | 35.20 | |
| FM Engineer† | c Illingworth b Snow | 59 | 124 | 111 | 0 | 0 | 53.15 | |
| S Abid Ali | b Illingworth | 26 | 60 | 40 | 3 | 0 | 65.00 | |
| S Venkataraghavan | lbw b Underwood | 24 | 62 | 66 | 4 | 0 | 36.36 | |
| BS Bedi | c D'Oliveira b Illingworth | 2 | 17 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 11.11 | |
| BS Chandrasekhar | not out | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (b 6, lb 4, nb 1) | 11 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 117.3 overs) | 284 | (2.41 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-17 (Mankad), 2-21 (Gavaskar), 3-114 (Sardesai), 4-118 (Viswanath), 5-125 (Wadekar), 6-222 (Solkar), 7-230 (Engineer), 8-278 (Abid Ali), 9-284 (Venkataraghavan), 10-284 (Bedi) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| JA Snow | 24 | 5 | 68 | 2 | 2.83 | |||
| JSE Price | 15 | 2 | 51 | 1 | 3.40 | |||
| RA Hutton | 12 | 2 | 30 | 0 | 2.50 | |||
| BL D'Oliveira | 7 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0.71 | |||
| R Illingworth | 34.3 | 12 | 70 | 5 | 2.02 | |||
| DL Underwood | 25 | 6 | 49 | 1 | 1.96 |
| England 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| BW Luckhurst | c Venkataraghavan b Chandrasekhar | 33 | 110 | 111 | 3 | 0 | 29.72 | |
| JA Jameson | run out (Chandrasekhar) | 16 | 35 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 64.00 | |
| JH Edrich | b Chandrasekhar | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| KWR Fletcher | c Solkar b Chandrasekhar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| BL D'Oliveira | c sub b Venkataraghavan | 17 | 26 | 28 | 2 | 0 | 60.71 | |
| APE Knott† | c Solkar b Venkataraghavan | 1 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| R Illingworth* | c & b Chandrasekhar | 4 | 15 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 23.52 | |
| RA Hutton | not out | 13 | 49 | 44 | 1 | 0 | 29.54 | |
| JA Snow | c & b Chandrasekhar | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| DL Underwood | c Mankad b Bedi | 11 | 28 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 40.74 | |
| JSE Price | lbw b Chandrasekhar | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 60.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 3) | 3 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 45.1 overs) | 101 | (2.23 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-23 (Jameson), 2-24 (Edrich), 3-24 (Fletcher), 4-49 (D'Oliveira), 5-54 (Knott), 6-65 (Illingworth), 7-72 (Luckhurst), 8-72 (Snow), 9-96 (Underwood), 10-101 (Price) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| S Abid Ali | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1.66 | |||
| ED Solkar | 3 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 3.33 | |||
| BS Bedi | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | |||
| BS Chandrasekhar | 18.1 | 3 | 38 | 6 | 2.09 | |||
| S Venkataraghavan | 20 | 4 | 44 | 2 | 2.20 |
| India 2nd innings (target: 173 runs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| SM Gavaskar | lbw b Snow | 0 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| AV Mankad | c Hutton b Underwood | 11 | 78 | 74 | 0 | 0 | 14.86 | |
| AL Wadekar* | run out | 45 | 125 | 118 | 4 | 0 | 38.13 | |
| DN Sardesai | c †Knott b Underwood | 40 | 159 | 156 | 4 | 0 | 25.64 | |
| GR Viswanath | c †Knott b Luckhurst | 33 | 175 | 171 | 0 | 0 | 19.29 | |
| ED Solkar | c & b Underwood | 1 | 22 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 6.25 | |
| FM Engineer† | not out | 28 | 50 | 59 | 3 | 0 | 47.45 | |
| S Abid Ali | not out | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Extras | (b 6, lb 5, nb 1) | 12 | ||||||
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| Total | (6 wickets; 101 overs) | 174 | (1.72 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat S Venkataraghavan, BS Bedi, BS Chandrasekhar |
| Fall of wickets1-2 (Gavaskar), 2-37 (Mankad), 3-76 (Wadekar), 4-124 (Sardesai), 5-134 (Solkar), 6-170 (Viswanath) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| JA Snow | 11 | 7 | 14 | 1 | 1.27 | |||
| JSE Price | 5 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 2.00 | |||
| BL D'Oliveira | 9 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 1.88 | |||
| R Illingworth | 36 | 15 | 40 | 0 | 1.11 | |||
| DL Underwood | 38 | 14 | 72 | 3 | 1.89 | |||
| BW Luckhurst | 2 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 4.50 |
| Match details |
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Toss England, who chose to bat Series India won the 3-match series 1-0 |
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Umpires
CS Elliott and AEG Rhodes |
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Close of play 19 Aug day 1 - England 1st innings 355 20 Aug day 2 - no play 21 Aug day 3 - India 1st innings 234/7 (S Abid Ali 2*, S Venkataraghavan 3*) 22 Aug rest day 23 Aug day 4 - India 2nd innings 76/2 (AL Wadekar 45*, DN Sardesai 13*) 24 Aug day 5 - India 2nd innings 174/6 (101 ov) - end of match |
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Aug 27, 1971 
Eknath Solkar takes a brilliant catch to dismiss Alan Knott © Getty Images |
Aug 24, 1971 
Dilip Sardesai is caught by Alan Knott © Getty Images |
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