TestNo. 852MenScorecard

England v India

Match drawn

2 to 7 August 1979Lord's

England

419/9d129.5 ov

India

96 & 318/4148 ov

Scorecard: every batter's and bowler's line, as the scorer kept it

Scorecard. For this match we hold every batter's and every bowler's line as the scorer's card kept it. The card does not name the fielder or the bowler for each dismissal, and older cards often leave balls faced blank (shown as -). There is no ball-by-ball record before December 2001. See the matches held ball by ball.

India innings

9655.5 ov

India batting
Batter	Dismissal	R	B	Mins	4s	6s	SR
Sunil Gavaskar	caught	42	114	139	4	0	36.8
Chetan Chauhan	caught	2	14	29	0	0	14.3
Dilip Vengsarkar	caught	0	12	20	0	0	0.0
Gundappa Viswanath	caught	21	34	38	3	0	61.8
Aunshuman Gaekwad	caught	13	71	93	1	0	18.3
Yashpal Sharma	caught	11	53	65	2	0	20.8
Kapil Dev	caught	4	5	5	0	0	80.0
Karsan Ghavri	not out	3*	19	36	0	0	15.8
Bharath Reddy	lbw	0	8	10	0	0	0.0
Srinivas Venkataraghavan	run out	0	1	1	0	0	0.0
Bishan Bedi	bowled	0	4	2	0	0	0.0
Extras		0
Total	all out, 55.5 overs	96

Fall of wicketsruns, 0 to 420

1-12 Chetan Chauhan2-23 Dilip Vengsarkar3-51 Gundappa Viswanath4-75 Sunil Gavaskar5-79 Aunshuman Gaekwad6-89 Kapil Dev7-96 Yashpal Sharma8-96 Bharath Reddy9-96 Srinivas Venkataraghavan10-96 Bishan Bedi

Bowling to India
Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
John Lever	9.5	3	29	1	2.95
Ian Botham	19	9	35	5	1.84
Mike Hendrick	15	7	15	2	1.00
Phil Edmonds	2	1	1	0	0.50
Graham Gooch	10	5	16	1	1.60

England innings

419/9d129.5 ov

England batting
Batter	Dismissal	R	B	Mins	4s	6s	SR
Mike Brearley	caught	12	28	35	2	0	42.9
Geoff Boycott	caught	32	80	93	5	0	40.0
Graham Gooch	bowled	10	52	76	1	0	19.2
David Gower	bowled	82	94	131	10	2	87.2
Derek Randall	run out	57	135	156	8	0	42.2
Ian Botham	bowled	36	63	74	3	0	57.1
Geoff Miller	stumped	62	160	192	4	0	38.8
Phil Edmonds	caught	20	53	50	4	0	37.7
Bob Taylor	caught	64	112	123	9	0	57.1
John Lever	not out	6*	8	12	1	0	75.0
Extras	b 11, lb 21, w 2, nb 4	38
Total	9 wickets declared, 129.5 overs	419

Fall of wicketsruns, 0 to 420

1-21 Mike Brearley2-60 Geoff Boycott3-71 Graham Gooch4-185 David Gower5-226 Derek Randall6-253 Ian Botham7-291 Phil Edmonds8-394 Geoff Miller9-419 Bob Taylor

Bowling to England
Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
Kapil Dev	38	11	93	3	2.45
Karsan Ghavri	31	2	122	2	3.94
Bishan Bedi	38.5	13	87	2	2.24
Srinivas Venkataraghavan	22	2	79	1	3.59

India innings

318/4148 ov

India batting
Batter	Dismissal	R	B	Mins	4s	6s	SR
Sunil Gavaskar	caught	59	117	142	8	0	50.4
Chetan Chauhan	caught	31	100	114	4	0	31.0
Dilip Vengsarkar	caught	103	295	353	13	0	34.9
Gundappa Viswanath	caught	113	337	351	14	0	33.5
Aunshuman Gaekwad	not out	1*	31	37	0	0	3.2
Yashpal Sharma	not out	5*	9	11	0	0	55.6
Extras	b 2, lb 2, w 1, nb 1	6
Total	4 wickets, 148 overs	318

Fall of wicketsruns, 0 to 420

1-79 Chetan Chauhan2-99 Sunil Gavaskar3-309 Dilip Vengsarkar4-312 Gundappa Viswanath

Bowling to India
Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
Ian Botham	35	13	80	1	2.29
Mike Hendrick	25	12	56	0	2.24
John Lever	24	7	69	1	2.88
Phil Edmonds	45	18	62	2	1.38
Geoff Miller	17	6	37	0	2.18
Graham Gooch	2	0	8	0	4.00

Tests in August 1979

3 matches

TestScorecardIndia96 & 318/4148England419/9d129.5Match drawnLord's, 2 August TestScorecardEngland27080.5India223/6110Match drawnLeeds, 16 August TestScorecardEngland305 & 334/8d116.5India202 & 429/8150.5Match drawnThe Oval, 30 August

Match facts

Format: Test No. 852
Dates: 2 to 7 August 1979
Ground: Lord's
Result: Match drawn
In the database: Scorecard

GET/v1/matches/1979-08-02-england-v-india/scorecard200

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  "balls_per_over": 6,
  "innings": [{
    "team": "india", "runs": 96,
    "batting": [{"player": "Sunil Gavaskar", "dismissal": "caught",
      "runs": 42, "balls": 114, "minutes": 139, ...}, ...],
    "bowling": [{"player": "John Lever", "overs": "9.5", "wickets": 1, ...}, ...]
  }, ...]
}

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England v India

Previous meetingTest, England won by an innings and 83 runs, 12 July 1979 Next meetingTest, Match drawn, 16 August 1979