This match marked Sunil Gavaskar’s
One-day International debut as skipper, and the One-day International debuts of
Kirti Azad, Roger Binny, Dilip Doshi, Sandeep Patil and Tirumalai Srinivasan
(better known as TE)*.
On winning the toss, Greg Chappell, Australia’s
captain, inserted the Indians. Gavaskar, who faced 11 balls, scored four. He
was caught by Lawson (Ge)off the bowling of Dennis Lillee, who broke the 12-run
stand.
Srinivasan, who faced 12 balls, scored
six. He was caught by Greg off Lillee, who broke the 10-run stand.
The third-wicket (Gundap)pair put on
36. Viswanath, whose 44-ball innings included a boundary, scored 22. He was
dismissed by Trevor, the youngest of the Chappell brothers.
Azad faced 22 balls, scoring four. He
was caught by Lawson. Needless to say, Len Pascoe was in seventh heaven. Dilip
Vengsarkar, who faced 72 balls, scored 22. Greg broke the eight-run stand.
Kapil Dev faced 16 balls, scoring six.
Lawson broke the 38-run stand. Patil, the player of the match, scored 64. His
70-ball innings included four boundaries. Greg broke the 92-run stand.
Syed Kirmani, who faced 52 balls,
scored 48. His innings included four boundaries. He was unbeaten. The
eighth-wicket stand was worth five. Binny, who didn’t face a ball, was run out.
The ninth-wicket pair didn’t open its
account. Karsan Ghavri, who faced a ball, didn’t open his account. He was run
out.
The Aussies conceded 32 extras. India
scored 208 for the loss of nine wickets off 49 overs. Shaun Graf bowled 10
wicketless overs, conceding 30. Trevor, who bowled five overs, conceded 14. He
picked up a wicket.
Lawson bowled nine overs, conceding
46. He picked up a wicket, as did Pascoe, who bowled 10 overs. He conceded 32.
Lillee bowled seven overs, including a
maiden. He conceded 22. He picked up a couple of scalps, as did Greg, who
bowled eight overs, including a maiden. He conceded 32.
Australia’s openers put on 60. Kim
Hughes, who faced 53 balls, scored 35. His innings included four boundaries. He
was dismissed by Patil. The second-wicket stand was worth just a couple. John
Dyson, who faced 66 balls, scored 23. He was run out.
Greg, who faced 19 balls, scored 11.
His innings included a boundary. He was caught by Gavaskar. Doshi broke the
11-run stand. Allan Border, who faced 19 balls, scored six. He was caught by
Azad. Needless to say, Doshi was in seventh heaven.
Doug Walters, who faced 31 balls,
scored 27. His innings included a boundary. He was stumped by Kirmani.
Doshi broke the 38-run stand. The sixth-wicket stand was worth 11. Trevor, who
faced 41 balls, scored 14. He was run out.
Rod Marsh, who scored at a run a ball,
wasn’t in seventh heaven. Ghavri broke the eight-run stand. Graf, who faced 11
balls, scored five. His innings included a boundary. Binny broke the two-run
stand.
The ninth-wicket pair didn’t open its
account. Lawson, who faced a ball, didn’t get off the mark. He was caught by
Doshi off the bowling of Binny.
The last-wicket pair put on three.
Lillee, who faced three balls, scored five. He was run out. Pascoe faced three
balls, didn’t open his account. He was unbeaten.
India conceded nine extras. Australia,
who were dismissed for 142 off 42.1 overs, lost by 66 runs. Dev bowled seven
wicketless overs, including a Kapil of maidens. He conceded 15.
Ghavri bowled 9.1 overs, including a
maiden. He conceded 32. He picked up a wicket, as did Patil, whose 10 overs
included a maiden. He conceded 31.
Binny bowled six overs, conceding 23.
He picked up a couple of wickets. Doshi bowled 10 overs, including a maiden. He
conceded 32 and picked up three scalps.
(*Note: Thirty years to the day,
Srinivasan died of brain cancer. He was 60.)
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