TestNo. 898MenScorecard

New Zealand v India

Match drawn

6 to 11 March 1981Christchurch

New Zealand

286/5145 ov

India

255/9127 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

255/9127 ov

India batting
Batter	Dismissal	R	B	Mins	4s	6s	SR
Sunil Gavaskar	caught	53	122	176	7	0	43.4
Chetan Chauhan	caught	78	216	266	9	0	36.1
Dilip Vengsarkar	bowled	61	152	212	8	0	40.1
Gundappa Viswanath	bowled	7	56	78	0	0	12.5
Sandeep Patil	caught	4	9	10	1	0	44.4
Yashpal Sharma	caught	0	8	9	0	0	0.0
Syed Kirmani	not out	9*	29	35	0	0	31.0
Kapil Dev	caught	0	1	1	0	0	0.0
Karsan Ghavri	caught	17	90	104	1	0	18.9
Ravi Shastri	not out	12*	81	100	0	0	14.8
Dilip Doshi	bowled	0	4	2	0	0	0.0
Extras	b 4, lb 5, nb 5	14
Total	9 wickets, 127 overs	255

Fall of wicketsruns, 0 to 290

1-114 Sunil Gavaskar2-168 Chetan Chauhan3-200 Gundappa Viswanath4-210 Sandeep Patil5-210 Yashpal Sharma6-224 Dilip Vengsarkar7-224 Kapil Dev7-226 Syed Kirmani8-255 Karsan Ghavri9-255 Dilip Doshi

Bowling to India
Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
Richard Hadlee	33	12	47	5	1.42
Gary Troup	26	6	60	0	2.31
Lance Cairns	33	16	57	0	1.73
Martin Snedden	23	8	63	2	2.74
Jeremy Coney	9	4	12	2	1.33
Geoff Howarth	3	2	2	0	0.67

New Zealand innings

286/5145 ov

New Zealand batting
Batter	Dismissal	R	B	Mins	4s	6s	SR
John Wright	caught	18	18	25	2	0	100.0
Bruce Edgar	lbw	49	231	247	2	0	21.2
John Reid	not out	123*	429	446	11	0	28.7
Geoff Howarth	caught	26	104	113	1	0	25.0
Jeremy Coney	caught	15	31	36	1	0	48.4
Jock Edwards	bowled	23	39	44	4	0	59.0
Ian Smith	not out	11*	27	27	2	0	40.7
Extras	b 6, lb 8, nb 7	21
Total	5 wickets, 145 overs	286

Fall of wicketsruns, 0 to 290

1-27 John Wright2-152 Bruce Edgar3-201 Geoff Howarth4-235 Jeremy Coney5-265 Jock Edwards

Bowling to New Zealand
Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
Kapil Dev	22	2	60	0	2.73
Karsan Ghavri	10	4	33	1	3.30
Sandeep Patil	12	4	14	1	1.17
Dilip Doshi	49	23	67	1	1.37
Ravi Shastri	42	21	65	2	1.55
Chetan Chauhan	5	1	12	0	2.40
Sunil Gavaskar	3	1	11	0	3.67
Dilip Vengsarkar	2	1	3	0	1.50

Tests in March 1981

4 matches

TestScorecardIndia255/9127New Zealand286/5145Match drawnChristchurch, 6 March TestScorecardIndia238 & 284120.5New Zealand366 & 95/562Match drawnAuckland, 13 March TestScorecardWest Indies265 & 379/7d109England122 & 22491.2West Indies won by 298 runsBridgetown, 13 March TestScorecardEngland271 & 234/393West Indies468/9d155Match drawnSt John's, 27 March

Match facts

Format: Test No. 898
Dates: 6 to 11 March 1981
Ground: Christchurch
Result: Match drawn
In the database: Scorecard

GET/v1/matches/1981-03-06-new-zealand-v-india/scorecard200

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  "balls_per_over": 6,
  "innings": [{
    "team": "india", "runs": 255,
    "batting": [{"player": "Chetan Chauhan", "dismissal": "caught",
      "runs": 78, "balls": 216, "minutes": 266, ...}, ...],
    "bowling": [{"player": "Richard Hadlee", "overs": "33", "wickets": 5, ...}, ...]
  }, ...]
}

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New Zealand v India

Previous meetingTest, New Zealand won by 62 runs, 21 February 1981 Next meetingTest, Match drawn, 13 March 1981