- Test no. 1033 | 1985/86 season
- Played at Melbourne Cricket Ground
- 26,27,28,29,30 December 1985 (5-day match)
| Australia 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| WB Phillips† | b Yadav | 7 | 77 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 10.76 | |
| DC Boon | lbw b Shastri | 14 | 57 | 46 | 1 | 0 | 30.43 | |
| GR Marsh | c Sivaramakrishnan b Yadav | 30 | 163 | 131 | 3 | 0 | 22.90 | |
| AR Border* | c & b Sivaramakrishnan | 11 | 17 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 91.66 | |
| DW Hookes | b Shastri | 42 | 66 | 67 | 6 | 0 | 62.68 | |
| SR Waugh | c Kapil Dev b Sivaramakrishnan | 13 | 32 | 32 | 2 | 0 | 40.62 | |
| GRJ Matthews | not out | 100 | 195 | 152 | 9 | 2 | 65.78 | |
| RJ Bright | b Shastri | 28 | 86 | 76 | 2 | 0 | 36.84 | |
| CJ McDermott | c Kapil Dev b Shastri | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| BA Reid | c Srikkanth b Kapil Dev | 1 | 29 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 4.76 | |
| DR Gilbert | c †Kirmani b Yadav | 4 | 49 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 21.05 | |
| Extras | (b 5, lb 6) | 11 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 103.5 overs) | 262 | (2.52 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-22 (Boon), 2-26 (Phillips), 3-41 (Border), 4-90 (Hookes), 5-109 (Waugh), 6-127 (Marsh), 7-193 (Bright), 8-195 (McDermott), 9-216 (Reid), 10-262 (Gilbert) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| N Kapil Dev | 23 | 6 | 38 | 1 | 1.65 | |||
| RMH Binny | 3 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 3.66 | |||
| RJ Shastri | 37 | 13 | 87 | 4 | 2.35 | |||
| NS Yadav | 27.5 | 10 | 64 | 3 | 2.29 | |||
| L Sivaramakrishnan | 13 | 2 | 51 | 2 | 3.92 |
| India 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| SM Gavaskar | b Gilbert | 6 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 120.00 | |
| K Srikkanth | lbw b Gilbert | 86 | 105 | 89 | 16 | 0 | 96.62 | |
| M Amarnath | c †Phillips b Reid | 45 | 163 | 128 | 5 | 0 | 35.15 | |
| DB Vengsarkar | c & b Matthews | 75 | 320 | 239 | 6 | 0 | 31.38 | |
| M Azharuddin | b Matthews | 37 | 145 | 111 | 2 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| RJ Shastri | c †Phillips b Waugh | 49 | 230 | 173 | 1 | 0 | 28.32 | |
| N Kapil Dev* | c Hookes b Reid | 55 | 78 | 76 | 6 | 0 | 72.36 | |
| RMH Binny | c Matthews b Reid | 0 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| SMH Kirmani† | c †Phillips b Waugh | 35 | 59 | 45 | 4 | 0 | 77.77 | |
| L Sivaramakrishnan | c †Phillips b Reid | 15 | 38 | 28 | 2 | 0 | 53.57 | |
| NS Yadav | not out | 6 | 30 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 22.22 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 15, nb 17) | 36 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 148.2 overs) | 445 | (3.00 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| CJ McDermott | 15 | 5 | 52 | 0 | 3.46 | |||
| DR Gilbert | 22 | 1 | 81 | 2 | 3.68 | |||
| BA Reid | 38.2 | 11 | 100 | 4 | 2.60 | |||
| RJ Bright | 31 | 8 | 76 | 0 | 2.45 | |||
| GRJ Matthews | 31 | 7 | 81 | 2 | 2.61 | |||
| SR Waugh | 11 | 5 | 36 | 2 | 3.27 |
| Australia 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GR Marsh | c Sivaramakrishnan b Shastri | 19 | 66 | 40 | 3 | 0 | 47.50 | |
| DC Boon | c & b Kapil Dev | 19 | 43 | 43 | 2 | 0 | 44.18 | |
| AR Border* | st †Kirmani b Yadav | 163 | 410 | 358 | 16 | 0 | 45.53 | |
| DW Hookes | c Srikkanth b Shastri | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| SR Waugh | b Shastri | 5 | 31 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| GRJ Matthews | c Azharuddin b Sivaramakrishnan | 16 | 71 | 65 | 1 | 0 | 24.61 | |
| WB Phillips† | c Srikkanth b Yadav | 13 | 48 | 42 | 2 | 0 | 30.95 | |
| RJ Bright | lbw b Kapil Dev | 20 | 71 | 78 | 3 | 0 | 25.64 | |
| CJ McDermott | c & b Shastri | 2 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 22.22 | |
| BA Reid | c Sivaramakrishnan b Yadav | 13 | 36 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 54.16 | |
| DR Gilbert | not out | 10 | 113 | 65 | 1 | 0 | 15.38 | |
| Extras | (b 11, lb 16, nb 1) | 28 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 123.5 overs) | 308 | (2.48 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-32 (Boon), 2-54 (Marsh), 3-54 (Hookes), 4-84 (Waugh), 5-126 (Matthews), 6-161 (Phillips), 7-202 (Bright), 8-205 (McDermott), 9-231 (Reid), 10-308 (Border) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| N Kapil Dev | 22 | 7 | 53 | 2 | 2.40 | |||
| M Amarnath | 3 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 3.00 | |||
| RJ Shastri | 47 | 13 | 92 | 4 | 1.95 | |||
| NS Yadav | 38.5 | 15 | 84 | 3 | 2.16 | |||
| L Sivaramakrishnan | 13 | 1 | 43 | 1 | 3.30 |
| India 2nd innings (target: 126 runs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| SM Gavaskar | b Reid | 8 | 68 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 14.81 | |
| K Srikkanth | c Bright b Reid | 38 | 94 | 61 | 3 | 0 | 62.29 | |
| M Amarnath | not out | 3 | 40 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 11.11 | |
| DB Vengsarkar | not out | 1 | 14 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 8.33 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 1, nb 4) | 9 | ||||||
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| Total | (2 wickets; 25 overs) | 59 | (2.36 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat M Azharuddin, RJ Shastri, N Kapil Dev*, RMH Binny, SMH Kirmani†, L Sivaramakrishnan, NS Yadav |
| Fall of wickets1-39 (Gavaskar), 2-57 (Srikkanth) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| CJ McDermott | 6 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 2.83 | |||
| DR Gilbert | 4 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 2.25 | |||
| BA Reid | 8 | 1 | 23 | 2 | 2.87 | |||
| RJ Bright | 7 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0.71 |
| Match details |
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Toss India, who chose to field Series 3-match series level 0-0 |
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Test debut
SR Waugh
(Australia) Player of the match AR Border (Australia) |
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Umpires
RA French and RC Isherwood |
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Close of play 26 Dec day 1 - Australia 1st innings 210/8 (GRJ Matthews 54*, BA Reid 0*) 27 Dec day 2 - India 1st innings 187/3 (DB Vengsarkar 38*, M Azharuddin 5*) 28 Dec day 3 - India 1st innings 431/9 (L Sivaramakrishnan 6*, NS Yadav 2*) 29 Dec day 4 - Australia 2nd innings 228/8 (AR Border 98*, BA Reid 11*) 30 Dec day 5 - India 2nd innings 59/2 (25 ov) - end of match |
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