The Frank Worrell Trophy - 1st Test
West Indies won by an innings and 106 runs
- Test no. 819 | 1977/78 season
- Played at Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad
- 3,4,5 March 1978 (5-day match)
| Australia 1st innings | R | M | 4s | 6s | |||
| GM Wood | c Haynes b Croft | 2 | 25 | 0 | 0 | ||
| CS Serjeant | c †Murray b Croft | 3 | 64 | 0 | 0 | ||
| GN Yallop | c Richards b Croft | 2 | 18 | 0 | 0 | ||
| PM Toohey | b Garner | 20 | 66 | 2 | 0 | ||
| RB Simpson* | lbw b Garner | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | ||
| GJ Cosier | c Greenidge b Croft | 46 | 88 | 7 | 0 | ||
| SJ Rixon† | run out | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | ||
| B Yardley | c †Murray b Roberts | 2 | 19 | 0 | 0 | ||
| JR Thomson | c Austin b Roberts | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| WM Clark | b Garner | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | ||
| JD Higgs | not out | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Extras | (b 4, lb 6, nb 4) | 14 | |||||
 |
|||||||
| Total | (all out; 35.1 overs) | 90 | (2.55 runs per over) | ||||
| Fall of wickets1-7 (Wood), 2-10 (Yallop), 3-16 (Serjeant), 4-23 (Simpson), 4-37* (Toohey, retired not out), 5-45 (Rixon), 6-75 (Yardley), 7-75 (Thomson), 8-84 (Clark), 9-90 (Toohey), 10-90 (Cosier) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| AME Roberts | 12 | 4 | 26 | 2 | 2.16 | |||
| CEH Croft | 9.1 | 5 | 15 | 4 | 1.63 | |||
| J Garner | 14 | 6 | 35 | 3 | 2.50 |
| West Indies 1st innings | R | M | 4s | 6s | |||
| CG Greenidge | b Yardley | 43 | 145 | 8 | 0 | ||
| DL Haynes | c †Rixon b Higgs | 61 | 75 | 7 | 2 | ||
| IVA Richards | lbw b Thomson | 39 | 64 | 5 | 0 | ||
| AI Kallicharran | b Yardley | 127 | 258 | 17 | 0 | ||
| CH Lloyd* | b Thomson | 86 | 160 | 10 | 1 | ||
| RA Austin | c sub (TJ Laughlin) b Thomson | 2 | 26 | 0 | 0 | ||
| DL Murray† | c †Rixon b Higgs | 21 | 70 | 1 | 0 | ||
| DR Parry | b Yardley | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| AME Roberts | st †Rixon b Higgs | 7 | 39 | 0 | 0 | ||
| J Garner | c Cosier b Higgs | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| CEH Croft | not out | 4 | 20 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Extras | (lb 9, nb 6) | 15 | |||||
|
|||||||
| Total | (all out; 109.5 overs) | 405 | (3.68 runs per over) | ||||
| Fall of wickets1-87 (Haynes), 2-143 (Richards), 3-143 (Greenidge), 4-313 (Lloyd), 5-324 (Austin), 6-385 (Kallicharran), 7-385 (Parry), 8-391 (Murray), 9-391 (Garner), 10-405 (Roberts) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| JR Thomson | 21 | 6 | 84 | 3 | 4.00 | |||
| WM Clark | 16 | 3 | 41 | 0 | 2.56 | |||
| JD Higgs | 24.5 | 3 | 91 | 4 | 3.66 | |||
| RB Simpson | 16 | 2 | 65 | 0 | 4.06 | |||
| B Yardley | 19 | 1 | 64 | 3 | 3.36 | |||
| GJ Cosier | 13 | 2 | 45 | 0 | 3.46 |
| Australia 2nd innings | R | M | 4s | 6s | |||
| GM Wood | lbw b Roberts | 32 | 54 | 4 | 0 | ||
| CS Serjeant | lbw b Garner | 40 | 79 | 7 | 0 | ||
| GN Yallop | b Roberts | 81 | 195 | 7 | 0 | ||
| GJ Cosier | lbw b Garner | 19 | 110 | 0 | 1 | ||
| RB Simpson* | b Parry | 14 | 68 | 0 | 0 | ||
| SJ Rixon† | lbw b Roberts | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| B Yardley | not out | 7 | 18 | 1 | 0 | ||
| JR Thomson | b Parry | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| WM Clark | b Roberts | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| JD Higgs | b Roberts | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| PM Toohey | absent hurt | - | |||||
| Extras | (b 6, lb 1, w 1, nb 2) | 10 | |||||
|
|||||||
| Total | (all out; 63.2 overs) | 209 | (3.30 runs per over) | ||||
| Fall of wickets1-59 (Wood), 2-90 (Serjeant), 3-149 (Cosier), 4-194 (Yallop), 5-194 (Rixon), 6-194 (Simpson), 7-200 (Thomson), 8-201 (Clark), 9-209 (Higgs) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| AME Roberts | 16.2 | 3 | 56 | 5 | 3.42 | |||
| CEH Croft | 13 | 1 | 55 | 0 | 4.23 | |||
| J Garner | 17 | 5 | 39 | 2 | 2.29 | |||
| DR Parry | 17 | 1 | 49 | 2 | 2.88 |
| Match details |
|
Toss West Indies, who chose to field Series West Indies led the 5-match series 1-0 |
|
Test debuts
JD Higgs
(Australia);
RA Austin,
DL Haynes and
DR Parry
(West Indies) |
|
Umpires
RG Gosein and D Sang Hue |
|
Close of play 3 Mar day 1 - West Indies 1st innings 79/0 (CG Greenidge 26*, DL Haynes 53*) 4 Mar day 2 - West Indies 1st innings 391/9 (AME Roberts 2*, CEH Croft 0*) 5 Mar day 3 - Australia 2nd innings 209 (63.2 ov) - end of match |
| Match notes |
|
|
|||
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
FREE Cricket DVD offer at Cricshop
Cricshop.com - leading online cricket store
Rugby Union Autumn Internationals coverage
on www.scrum.com
