- Test no. 703 | 1972/73 season
- Played at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
- 20,21,23,24,25 December 1972 (5-day match)
| India 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| SM Gavaskar | c Greig b Arnold | 12 | 53 | 35 | 1 | 0 | 34.28 | |
| RD Parkar | c Pocock b Arnold | 4 | 20 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 21.05 | |
| AL Wadekar* | b Arnold | 3 | 17 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 27.27 | |
| DN Sardesai | b Arnold | 12 | 93 | 66 | 1 | 0 | 18.18 | |
| GR Viswanath | c †Knott b Greig | 27 | 117 | 83 | 4 | 0 | 32.53 | |
| ED Solkar | c †Knott b Greig | 20 | 124 | 79 | 4 | 0 | 25.31 | |
| FM Engineer† | b Cottam | 15 | 28 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 88.23 | |
| S Abid Ali | c Greig b Cottam | 58 | 154 | 103 | 9 | 0 | 56.31 | |
| S Venkataraghavan | c Greig b Arnold | 17 | 102 | 35 | 2 | 0 | 48.57 | |
| BS Bedi | not out | 4 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 44.44 | |
| BS Chandrasekhar | b Arnold | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 1) | 1 | ||||||
 |
||||||||
| Total | (all out; 84.4 overs) | 173 | (2.04 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-7 (Parkar), 2-15 (Wadekar), 3-20 (Gavaskar), 4-43 (Sardesai), 5-59 (Viswanath), 6-80 (Engineer), 7-123 (Solkar), 8-169 (Abid Ali), 9-169 (Venkataraghavan), 10-173 (Chandrasekhar) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| GG Arnold | 23.4 | 7 | 45 | 6 | 1.90 | |||
| RMH Cottam | 23 | 5 | 66 | 2 | 2.86 | |||
| AW Greig | 23 | 8 | 32 | 2 | 1.39 | |||
| PI Pocock | 6 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 2.16 | |||
| DL Underwood | 9 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 1.77 |
| England 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| B Wood | c Venkataraghavan b Chandrasekhar | 19 | 92 | 84 | 3 | 0 | 22.61 | |
| DL Amiss | st †Engineer b Bedi | 46 | 98 | 73 | 7 | 0 | 63.01 | |
| KWR Fletcher | b Chandrasekhar | 2 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| MH Denness | c †Engineer b Bedi | 16 | 81 | 73 | 3 | 0 | 21.91 | |
| AR Lewis* | lbw b Chandrasekhar | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| AW Greig | not out | 68 | 273 | 242 | 8 | 1 | 28.09 | |
| APE Knott† | c Solkar b Chandrasekhar | 4 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| GG Arnold | c Abid Ali b Chandrasekhar | 12 | 96 | 80 | 1 | 0 | 15.00 | |
| PI Pocock | lbw b Chandrasekhar | 0 | 34 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| DL Underwood | c Solkar b Chandrasekhar | 6 | 33 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 17.64 | |
| RMH Cottam | c Abid Ali b Chandrasekhar | 3 | 21 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 14.28 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 17, nb 3) | 24 | ||||||
|
||||||||
| Total | (all out; 108.5 overs) | 200 | (1.83 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-61 (Wood), 2-69 (Amiss), 3-71 (Fletcher), 4-71 (Lewis), 5-119 (Denness), 6-123 (Knott), 7-152 (Arnold), 8-160 (Pocock), 9-180 (Underwood), 10-200 (Cottam) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| S Abid Ali | 9 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 1.44 | |||
| ED Solkar | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 2.66 | |||
| BS Bedi | 47 | 23 | 59 | 2 | 1.25 | |||
| BS Chandrasekhar | 41.5 | 18 | 79 | 8 | 1.88 | |||
| S Venkataraghavan | 8 | 2 | 17 | 0 | 2.12 |
| India 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| SM Gavaskar | c Greig b Underwood | 8 | 60 | 46 | 1 | 0 | 17.39 | |
| RD Parkar | lbw b Arnold | 35 | 99 | 72 | 5 | 0 | 48.61 | |
| AL Wadekar* | st †Knott b Pocock | 24 | 76 | 60 | 3 | 0 | 40.00 | |
| DN Sardesai | c Greig b Underwood | 10 | 42 | 36 | 2 | 0 | 27.77 | |
| GR Viswanath | b Underwood | 3 | 31 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 14.28 | |
| ED Solkar | c sub b Arnold | 75 | 246 | 197 | 11 | 0 | 38.07 | |
| FM Engineer† | c †Knott b Underwood | 63 | 170 | 132 | 9 | 0 | 47.72 | |
| S Abid Ali | c Fletcher b Pocock | 0 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| S Venkataraghavan | b Pocock | 0 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| BS Bedi | b Arnold | 2 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| BS Chandrasekhar | not out | 1 | 23 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 7.69 | |
| Extras | (b 8, lb 2, nb 2) | 12 | ||||||
|
||||||||
| Total | (all out; 98.4 overs) | 233 | (2.36 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-26 (Gavaskar), 2-59 (Parkar), 3-82 (Wadekar), 4-86 (Sardesai), 5-103 (Viswanath), 6-206 (Engineer), 7-207 (Abid Ali), 8-211 (Venkataraghavan), 9-215 (Bedi), 10-233 (Solkar) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| GG Arnold | 20.4 | 6 | 46 | 3 | 2.22 | |||
| RMH Cottam | 7 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 2.57 | |||
| AW Greig | 6 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 2.66 | |||
| PI Pocock | 33 | 7 | 72 | 3 | 2.18 | |||
| DL Underwood | 30 | 13 | 56 | 4 | 1.86 | |||
| B Wood | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 6.50 |
| England 2nd innings (target: 207 runs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| B Wood | c Solkar b Bedi | 45 | 152 | 149 | 5 | 0 | 30.20 | |
| DL Amiss | c Chandrasekhar b Bedi | 9 | 40 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 36.00 | |
| KWR Fletcher | c Wadekar b Bedi | 0 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| MH Denness | c Viswanath b Chandrasekhar | 35 | 61 | 63 | 6 | 0 | 55.55 | |
| AR Lewis* | not out | 70 | 165 | 158 | 7 | 0 | 44.30 | |
| AW Greig | not out | 40 | 124 | 120 | 4 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| Extras | (lb 9) | 9 | ||||||
|
||||||||
| Total | (4 wickets; 88.5 overs) | 208 | (2.34 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat APE Knott†, GG Arnold, PI Pocock, DL Underwood, RMH Cottam |
| Fall of wickets1-18 (Amiss), 2-20 (Fletcher), 3-76 (Denness), 4-107 (Wood) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| S Abid Ali | 4 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 1.50 | |||
| ED Solkar | 3 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 4.33 | |||
| BS Bedi | 39 | 20 | 50 | 3 | 1.28 | |||
| BS Chandrasekhar | 24 | 7 | 70 | 1 | 2.91 | |||
| S Venkataraghavan | 16 | 0 | 47 | 0 | 2.93 | |||
| DN Sardesai | 1.5 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 6.54 | |||
| SM Gavaskar | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.00 |
| Match details |
|
Toss India, who chose to bat Series England led the 5-match series 1-0 |
|
Test debuts
AR Lewis
(England);
RD Parkar
(India) |
|
Umpires
MV Nagendra and B Satyaji Rao |
|
Close of play 20 Dec day 1 - India 1st innings 156/7 (S Abid Ali 47*, S Venkataraghavan 15*) 21 Dec day 2 - England 1st innings 151/6 (AW Greig 43*, GG Arnold 12*) 22 Dec rest day 23 Dec day 3 - India 2nd innings 123/5 (ED Solkar 30*, FM Engineer 3*) 24 Dec day 4 - England 2nd innings 106/3 (B Wood 45*, AR Lewis 17*) 25 Dec day 5 - England 2nd innings 208/4 (88.5 ov) - end of match |
|
|||
Match Coverage
Series Results
Sponsored Links
Access your Indian Rupee earnings from anywhere in the world.
Who is the best footballer in Europe?
Debate now on the new ESPN Soccernet Castrol Rankings Blog
Buy official cricket kit, DVDs and merchandise
at Cricshop
Formula 1 news & live race coverage
on www.f1-live.com
