English cricket team in India in 1979–80

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English cricket team in India in 1979–80
Date	15–19 February 1980
Location	India
Result	England won the only Test
Teams  India  England Captains Gundappa Viswanath Mike Brearley Most runs Sunil Gavaskar (73) Yashpal Sharma (48) Kapil Dev (45) Ian Botham (114) Geoff Boycott (65) Graham Gooch (57) Most wickets Karsan Ghavri (5) Kapil Dev (3) Dilip Doshi (1) Ian Botham (13) John Lever (4) Graham Stevenson (2)
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The England national cricket team visited India in February 1980 and played a single Test match against the India national cricket team. It was played to celebrate the golden jubilee of the formation of Board of Control for Cricket in India.^[1]

Test series[]

Only Test[]

15–19 February 1980 Scorecard

India	v	England
242 (69.5 overs) Sunil Gavaskar 49 (68) Ian Botham 6/58 (22.5 overs)		296 (97.1 overs) Ian Botham 114 (144) Karsan Ghavri 5/52 (20.1 overs)
149 (52.1 overs) Kapil Dev 45* (82) Ian Botham 7/48 (26 overs)		98/0 (29.3 overs) Graham Gooch 49* (85) Sunil Gavaskar 0/4 (1 overs)

England won by 10 wickets Wankhede Stadium, Bombay Umpires: Jiban Ghosh (Ind) and SN Hanumantha Rao (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to bat.
• Graham Stevenson (Eng) made his Test debut.
• 16 February was a rest day.

References[]

External links[]

• Cricarchive
• Tour page CricInfo
• Record CricInfo

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