Indian cricket team in Australia in 1977–78
Indian cricket team in Australia in 1977–78 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date | 2 December 1977 – 3 February 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Result | Australia won the 5-match series 3–2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The India national cricket team toured Australia in the 1977–78 season to play 5 Test matches. Australia won the test series 3-2. The matches were played at the same time as the first World Series Cricket matches.
Test series summary[]
First Test[]
2–6 December 1977
Scorecard |
Australia
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v
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India
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327 (91.5 overs)
Bob Simpson 89 (269) Madan Lal 5/72 (19 overs) |
324 (84.7 overs)
Sunil Gavaskar 113 (264) Jeff Thomson 4/76 (19.7 overs) |
- Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
Second Test[]
16–21 December 1977
Scorecard |
India
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v
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Australia
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402 (79.6 overs)
Mohinder Amarnath 90 (156) Jeff Thomson 4/101 (24 overs) |
394 (118.6 overs)
Bob Simpson 176 (355) Bishan Singh Bedi 5/89 (31 overs) | |
- India won the toss and decided to bat.
Third Test[]
30 December 1977–4 January 1978
Scorecard |
India
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v
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Australia
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- India won the toss and decided to bat.
- This was India's first Test win in Australia.[1]
Fourth Test[]
7–12 January 1978
Scorecard |
Australia
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v
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India
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131 (49.4 overs)
Bob Simpson 38 (99) Bhagwat Chandrasekhar 4/30 (15 overs) |
396/8d (101 overs)
Gundappa Viswanath 79 (182) Jeff Thomson 4/83 (27 overs) | |
- Australia won the toss and decided to bat.
Fifth Test[]
28 January–3 February 1978
Scorecard |
Australia
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v
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India
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505 (112.4 overs)
Graham Yallop 121 Bhagwat Chandrasekhar 5/136 (29.4 overs) |
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445 (141.4 overs)
Mohinder Amarnath 86 Bruce Yardley 4/134 (43 overs) |
- Australia won the toss and decided to bat
- Rick Darling, Bruce Yardley, Ian Callen and Graeme Wood (all Aus) made their Test debuts.
Annual reviews[]
Further reading[]
- Chris Harte, A History of Australian Cricket, Andre Deutsch, 1993
- Ramachandra Guha, A Corner of a Foreign Field - An Indian History of a British Sport, Picador, 2001
References[]
- ^ "Third Test Match, Australia v India". Wisden. ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
External sources[]
- India in Australia, 1977/78 at ESPNcricinfo archive
- India to Australia 1977-78 at test-cricket-tours.co.uk
- India in Australia 1977/78 at CricketArchive (subscription required)
Categories:
- 1977 in Australian cricket
- 1977 in Indian cricket
- 1977–78 Australian cricket season
- 1978 in Australian cricket
- 1978 in Indian cricket
- Indian cricket tours of Australia
- International cricket competitions from 1975–76 to 1980