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Test no. 703

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

1972/73 season

Played at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi, on 20,21,23,24,25 December 1972 (5-day match)

Result England won by 6 wickets


India 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	SM Gavaskar	c Greig b Arnold	12	53	35	1	0	34.28
	RD Parkar	c Pocock b Arnold	4	20	19	0	0	21.05
	AL Wadekar	b Arnold	3	17	11	0	0	27.27
	DN Sardesai	b Arnold	12	93	66	1	0	18.18
	GR Viswanath	c Knott b Greig	27	117	83	4	0	32.53
	ED Solkar	c Knott b Greig	20	124	79	4	0	25.31
	FM Engineer	b Cottam	15	28	17	3	0	88.23
	S Abid Ali	c Greig b Cottam	58	154	103	9	0	56.31
	S Venkataraghavan	c Greig b Arnold	17	102	35	2	0	48.57
	BS Bedi	not out	4	12	9	0	0	44.44
	BS Chandrasekhar	b Arnold	0	7	1	0	0	0.00
	Extras	(lb 1)	1

	Total	(all out; 84.4 overs)	173	(2.04 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-7 (Parkar), 2-15 (Wadekar), 3-20 (Gavaskar), 4-43 (Sardesai), 5-59 (Viswanath), 6-80 (Engineer), 7-123 (Solkar), 8-169 (Abid Ali), 9-169 (Venkataraghavan), 10-173 (Chandrasekhar)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
GG Arnold	23.4	7	45	6	1.90
RMH Cottam	23	5	66	2	2.86
AW Greig	23	8	32	2	1.39
PI Pocock	6	1	13	0	2.16
DL Underwood	9	1	16	0	1.77


England 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	B Wood	c Venkataraghavan b Chandrasekhar	19	92	84	3	0	22.61
	DL Amiss	st Engineer b Bedi	46	98	73	7	0	63.01
	KWR Fletcher	b Chandrasekhar	2	10	6	0	0	33.33
	MH Denness	c Engineer b Bedi	16	81	73	3	0	21.91
	AR Lewis	lbw b Chandrasekhar	0	4	2	0	0	0.00
	AW Greig	not out	68	273	242	8	1	28.09
	APE Knott	c Solkar b Chandrasekhar	4	13	12	1	0	33.33
	GG Arnold	c Abid Ali b Chandrasekhar	12	96	80	1	0	15.00
	PI Pocock	lbw b Chandrasekhar	0	34	29	0	0	0.00
	DL Underwood	c Solkar b Chandrasekhar	6	33	34	1	0	17.64
	RMH Cottam	c Abid Ali b Chandrasekhar	3	21	21	0	0	14.28
	Extras	(b 4, lb 17, nb 3)	24

	Total	(all out; 108.5 overs)	200	(1.83 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-61 (Wood), 2-69 (Amiss), 3-71 (Fletcher), 4-71 (Lewis), 5-119 (Denness), 6-123 (Knott), 7-152 (Arnold), 8-160 (Pocock), 9-180 (Underwood), 10-200 (Cottam)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
S Abid Ali	9	5	13	0	1.44
ED Solkar	3	0	8	0	2.66
BS Bedi	47	23	59	2	1.25
BS Chandrasekhar	41.5	18	79	8	1.88
S Venkataraghavan	8	2	17	0	2.12


India 2nd innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	SM Gavaskar	c Greig b Underwood	8	60	46	1	0	17.39
	RD Parkar	lbw b Arnold	35	99	72	5	0	48.61
	AL Wadekar	st Knott b Pocock	24	76	60	3	0	40.00
	DN Sardesai	c Greig b Underwood	10	42	36	2	0	27.77
	GR Viswanath	b Underwood	3	31	21	0	0	14.28
	ED Solkar	c sub b Arnold	75	246	197	11	0	38.07
	FM Engineer	c Knott b Underwood	63	170	132	9	0	47.72
	S Abid Ali	c Fletcher b Pocock	0	6	9	0	0	0.00
	S Venkataraghavan	b Pocock	0	8	4	0	0	0.00
	BS Bedi	b Arnold	2	8	6	0	0	33.33
	BS Chandrasekhar	not out	1	23	13	0	0	7.69
	Extras	(b 8, lb 2, nb 2)	12

	Total	(all out; 98.4 overs)	233	(2.36 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-26 (Gavaskar), 2-59 (Parkar), 3-82 (Wadekar), 4-86 (Sardesai), 5-103 (Viswanath), 6-206 (Engineer), 7-207 (Abid Ali), 8-211 (Venkataraghavan), 9-215 (Bedi), 10-233 (Solkar)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
GG Arnold	20.4	6	46	3	2.22
RMH Cottam	7	1	18	0	2.57
AW Greig	6	1	16	0	2.66
PI Pocock	33	7	72	3	2.18
DL Underwood	30	13	56	4	1.86
B Wood	2	0	13	0	6.50


England 2nd innings (target: 207 runs)			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	B Wood	c Solkar b Bedi	45	152	149	5	0	30.20
	DL Amiss	c Chandrasekhar b Bedi	9	40	25	2	0	36.00
	KWR Fletcher	c Wadekar b Bedi	0	8	8	0	0	0.00
	MH Denness	c Viswanath b Chandrasekhar	35	61	63	6	0	55.55
	AR Lewis	not out	70	165	158	7	0	44.30
	AW Greig	not out	40	124	120	4	0	33.33
	Extras	(lb 9)	9

	Total	(4 wickets; 88.5 overs)	208	(2.34 runs per over)

Did not bat

APE Knott, GG Arnold, PI Pocock, DL Underwood, RMH Cottam

Fall of wickets1-18 (Amiss), 2-20 (Fletcher), 3-76 (Denness), 4-107 (Wood)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
S Abid Ali	4	2	6	0	1.50
ED Solkar	3	0	13	0	4.33
BS Bedi	39	20	50	3	1.28
BS Chandrasekhar	24	7	70	1	2.91
S Venkataraghavan	16	0	47	0	2.93
DN Sardesai	1.5	0	12	0	6.54
SM Gavaskar	1	0	1	0	1.00

Toss India, who chose to bat first
Series England led the 5-match series 1-0

Test debuts AR Lewis (England); RD Parkar (India)

Umpires MV Nagendra and B Satyaji Rao

Close of play
20 Dec day 1 - India 1st innings 156/7 (S Abid Ali 47*, S Venkataraghavan 15*)
21 Dec day 2 - England 1st innings 151/6 (AW Greig 43*, GG Arnold 12*)
22 Dec rest day
23 Dec day 3 - India 2nd innings 123/5 (ED Solkar 30*, FM Engineer 3*)
24 Dec day 4 - England 2nd innings 106/3 (B Wood 45*, AR Lewis 17*)
25 Dec day 5 - England 2nd innings 208/4 (88.5 ov) - end of match

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