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Test no. 230

England in India Test Series - 1st Test India v England

1933/34 season

Played at Gymkhana Ground, Bombay, on 15,16,17,18 December 1933 (4-day match) Result England won by 9 wickets

	India 1st innings			R	4s	6s
		S Wazir Ali	lbw b Nichols	36		0
		JG Navle	c Nichols b Verity	13		0
		L Amarnath	lbw b Langridge	38		0
		CK Nayudu	lbw b Clark	28		1
		LP Jai	c Mitchell b Langridge	19		0
		VM Merchant	lbw b Nichols	23		0
		SHM Colah	c Elliott b Nichols	31		0
		L Amar Singh	st Elliott b Langridge	0	0	0
		M Nissar	c Mitchell b Verity	13		0
		L Ramji	b Verity	1	0	0
		RJD Jamshedji	not out	4		0
		Extras	(b 2, lb 5, nb 6)	13
		Total	(all out; 91.2 overs)	219	(2.39 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-44 (Navle), 2-71 (Wazir Ali), 3-117 (Nayudu), 4-135 (Amarnath), 5-148 (Jai), 6-175 (Merchant), 7-186 (Amar Singh), 8-209 (Nissar), 9-212 (Ramji), 10-219 (Colah)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	MS Nichols	23.2	8	53	3	2.27
	EW Clark	13	3	41	1	3.15
	CJ Barnett	2	1	1	0	0.50
	H Verity	27	11	44	3	1.62
	James Langridge	17	4	42	3	2.47
	LF Townsend	9	2	25	0	2.77

	England 1st innings			R	M	4s	6s
		A Mitchell	b Nissar	5			0
		CF Walters	c Merchant b Amar Singh	78			0
		CJ Barnett	c & b Jamshedji	33			0
		James Langridge	lbw b Nissar	31			0
		DR Jardine	b Nissar	60	180		0
		BH Valentine	c Merchant b Jamshedji	136	180	12	1
		LF Townsend	c & b Jamshedji	15			0
		MS Nichols	run out	2		0	0
		H Verity	c Ramji b Nissar	24			0
		H Elliott	not out	37			0
		EW Clark	b Nissar	1		0	0
		Extras	(b 7, lb 9)	16
		Total	(all out; 136.5 overs)	438	(3.20 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-12 (Mitchell), 2-67 (Barnett), 3-143 (Walters), 4-164 (Langridge), 5-309 (Jardine), 6-362 (Townsend), 7-371 (Valentine), 8-373 (Nichols), 9-431 (Verity), 10-438 (Clark)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	M Nissar	33.5	3	90	5	2.66
	L Ramji	23	5	64	0	2.78
	L Amar Singh	36	5	119	1	3.30
	RJD Jamshedji	35	4	137	3	3.91
	CK Nayudu	7	2	10	0	1.42
	L Amarnath	2	1	2	0	1.00

	India 2nd innings			R	M	4s	6s
		S Wazir Ali	c Nichols b Clark	5			0
		JG Navle	c Elliott b Clark	4			0
		L Amarnath	c Nichols b Clark	118	185	21	0
		CK Nayudu	c Valentine b Nichols	67			0
		LP Jai	c Jardine b Nichols	0		0	0
		VM Merchant	c Elliott b Langridge	30			0
		L Amar Singh	lbw b Verity	1		0	0
		SHM Colah	c Elliott b Nichols	12			0
		M Nissar	lbw b Nichols	1		0	0
		RJD Jamshedji	not out	1		0	0
		L Ramji	lbw b Nichols	0		0	0
		Extras	(b 4, lb 6, w 1, nb 8)	19
		Total	(all out; 90.5 overs)	258	(2.84 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-9 (Wazir Ali), 2-21 (Navle), 3-207 (Nayudu), 4-208 (Amarnath), 5-208 (Jai), 6-214 (Amar Singh), 7-248 (Merchant), 8-249 (Nissar), 9-258 (Colah), 10-258 (Ramji)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	MS Nichols	23.5	7	55	5	2.30
	EW Clark	19	5	69	3	3.63
	H Verity	20	9	50	1	2.50
	James Langridge	16	7	32	1	2.00
	LF Townsend	12	5	33	0	2.75

	England 2nd innings (target: 40 runs)			R	6s
		A Mitchell	lbw b Amar Singh	9	0
		CF Walters	not out	14	0
		CJ Barnett	not out	17	2
		Extras		0
		Total	(1 wicket; 7.2 overs)	40	(5.45 runs per over)

Did not bat James Langridge, DR Jardine, BH Valentine, LF Townsend, MS Nichols, H Verity, H Elliott, EW Clark

Fall of wickets1-15 (Mitchell)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	M Nissar	4	1	25	0	6.25
	L Amar Singh	3.2	1	15	1	4.50

Toss India, who chose to bat first Series England led the 3-match series 1-0 Test debuts A Mitchell and BH Valentine (England); L Amarnath, LP Jai, RJD Jamshedji, VM Merchant and L Ramji (India) Umpires JW Hitch (England) and FA Tarrant (Australia) Close of play 15 Dec day 1 - India 1st innings 212/9 (SHM Colah 28*, RJD Jamshedji 0*) 16 Dec day 2 - England 1st innings 294/4 (DR Jardine 53*, BH Valentine 79*) 17 Dec day 3 - India 2nd innings 159/2 (L Amarnath 102*, CK Nayudu 44*) 18 Dec day 4 - England 2nd innings 40/1 (7.2 ov) - end of match

Match notes

First ever test match in India

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