TestNo. 853MenScorecard

England v India

Match drawn

16 to 21 August 1979Leeds

England

27080.5 ov

India

223/6110 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.

England innings

27080.5 ov

England batting
Batter	Dismissal	R	B	Mins	4s	6s	SR
Geoff Boycott	caught	31	65	86	4	0	47.7
Mike Brearley	caught	15	70	102	1	0	21.4
Graham Gooch	caught	4	10	9	0	0	40.0
David Gower	lbw	0	6	9	0	0	0.0
Derek Randall	bowled	11	57	68	0	0	19.3
Ian Botham	caught	137	152	201	10	5	90.1
Geoff Miller	caught	27	53	79	3	0	50.9
Phil Edmonds	run out	18	49	54	2	0	36.7
Bob Taylor	caught	1	15	10	0	0	6.7
Bob Willis	not out	4*	11	13	0	0	36.4
Mike Hendrick	caught	0	8	5	0	0	0.0
Extras	b 4, lb 6, w 4, nb 8	22
Total	all out, 80.5 overs	270

Fall of wicketsruns, 0 to 270

1-53 Geoff Boycott2-57 Graham Gooch3-57 Mike Brearley4-58 David Gower5-89 Derek Randall6-176 Geoff Miller7-264 Phil Edmonds8-264 Ian Botham9-266 Bob Taylor10-270 Mike Hendrick

Bowling to England
Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
Kapil Dev	27	7	84	3	3.11
Karsan Ghavri	18	4	60	1	3.33
Mohinder Amarnath	20	7	53	2	2.65
Srinivas Venkataraghavan	7	2	25	1	3.57
Bishan Bedi	8.5	2	26	2	2.94

India innings

223/6110 ov

India batting
Batter	Dismissal	R	B	Mins	4s	6s	SR
Sunil Gavaskar	bowled	78	209	240	9	0	37.3
Chetan Chauhan	caught	0	1	1	0	0	0.0
Mohinder Amarnath	caught	0	18	14	0	0	0.0
Gundappa Viswanath	caught	1	18	26	0	0	5.6
Yashpal Sharma	caught	40	125	133	2	0	32.0
Dilip Vengsarkar	not out	65*	183	178	6	0	35.5
Kapil Dev	caught	3	10	14	0	0	30.0
Karsan Ghavri	not out	20*	97	99	1	0	20.6
Extras	b 11, lb 4, w 1	16
Total	6 wickets, 110 overs	223

Fall of wicketsruns, 0 to 270

1-1 Chetan Chauhan2-9 Mohinder Amarnath3-12 Gundappa Viswanath4-106 Yashpal Sharma5-156 Sunil Gavaskar6-160 Kapil Dev

Bowling to India
Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
Bob Willis	18	5	42	2	2.33
Mike Hendrick	14	6	13	1	0.93
Ian Botham	13	3	39	0	3.00
Phil Edmonds	28	8	59	1	2.11
Geoff Miller	32	13	52	2	1.63
Graham Gooch	3	1	2	0	0.67
Geoff Boycott	2	2	0	0	0.00

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. 853
Dates: 16 to 21 August 1979
Ground: Leeds
Result: Match drawn
In the database: Scorecard

GET/v1/matches/1979-08-16-england-v-india/scorecard200

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  "coverage": "scorecard",
  "balls_per_over": 6,
  "innings": [{
    "team": "england", "runs": 270,
    "batting": [{"player": "Ian Botham", "dismissal": "caught",
      "runs": 137, "balls": 152, "minutes": 201, ...}, ...],
    "bowling": [{"player": "Kapil Dev", "overs": "27", "wickets": 3, ...}, ...]
  }, ...]
}

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