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Test no. 467

West Indies in India Test Series - 5th Test
India v West Indies

1958/59 season

Played at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi, on 6,7,8,10,11 February 1959 (5-day match)

Result Match drawn


India 1st innings			R	M	4s	6s
	P Roy	c Solomon b Gilchrist	1		0	0
	NJ Contractor	lbw b Hall	92			0
	PR Umrigar	b Hall	76	185	10	0
	VL Manjrekar	c Alexander b Hall	6			0
	CG Borde	c Alexander b Smith	109	240	16	0
	DK Gaekwad	c Holt b Gilchrist	6			0
	HR Adhikari	c Alexander b Smith	63	203		0
	MH Mankad	c sub b Gilchrist	21			0
	NS Tamhane	c Gilchrist b Smith	3		0	0
	SP Gupte	b Hall	5			0
	RB Desai	not out	2		0	0
	Extras	(b 6, lb 15, nb 10)	31

	Total	(all out; 141.3 overs)	415	(2.93 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-6 (Roy), 2-143 (Umrigar), 3-170 (Manjrekar), 4-208 (Contractor), 5-242 (Gaekwad), 6-376 (Borde), 7-399 (Adhikari), 8-407 (Tamhane), 9-413 (Gupte), 10-415 (Mankad)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
R Gilchrist	30.3	8	90	3	2.95
WW Hall	26	4	66	4	2.53
ES Atkinson	14	4	44	0	3.14
OG Smith	40	7	94	3	2.35
GS Sobers	24	3	66	0	2.75
JS Solomon	7	2	24	0	3.42


West Indies 1st innings			R	M	4s	6s
	CC Hunte	lbw b Adhikari	92	177		1
	JKC Holt	c Roy b Desai	123	255	21	0
	RB Kanhai	lbw b Desai	40			0
	BF Butcher	lbw b Adhikari	71			0
	OG Smith	c Tamhane b Desai	100			2
	JS Solomon	not out	100			0
	GS Sobers	c Tamhane b Desai	44			0
	FCM Alexander	run out	25			1
	ES Atkinson	c & b Adhikari	37			0
	WW Hall	not out	0		0	0
	Extras	(b 2, lb 8, w 1, nb 1)	12

	Total	(8 wickets dec; 214 overs)	644	(3.00 runs per over)

Did not bat R Gilchrist

Fall of wickets1-159 (Hunte), 2-244 (Kanhai), 3-263 (Holt), 4-390 (Butcher), 5-455 (Smith), 6-524 (Sobers), 7-565 (Alexander), 8-635 (Atkinson)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
RB Desai	49	10	169	4	3.44
P Roy	2	0	12	0	6.00
MH Mankad	55	12	167	0	3.03
SP Gupte	60	16	144	0	2.40
HR Adhikari	26	2	68	3	2.61
DK Gaekwad	1	0	8	0	8.00
NJ Contractor	4	1	11	0	2.75
CG Borde	17	3	53	0	3.11


India 2nd innings			R	M	4s	6s
	P Roy	c Holt b Smith	58			0
	NJ Contractor	run out	4			0
	DK Gaekwad	c Hunte b Smith	52			0
	CG Borde	hit wicket b Gilchrist	96	195		0
	HR Adhikari	c sub b Smith	40			1
	MH Mankad	b Smith	0		0	0
	NS Tamhane	hit wicket b Smith	5			0
	SP Gupte	b Gilchrist	0		0	0
	RB Desai	b Gilchrist	5			0
	VL Manjrekar	not out	0		0	0
	PR Umrigar	absent hurt	-
	Extras	(b 2, lb 6, nb 7)	15

	Total	(all out; 111.2 overs)	275	(2.47 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-5 (Contractor), 2-98 (Roy), 3-135 (Gaekwad), 4-243 (Adhikari), 5-247 (Mankad), 6-260 (Tamhane), 7-264 (Gupte), 8-274 (Desai), 9-275 (Borde)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
R Gilchrist	24.2	6	62	3	2.54
WW Hall	13	5	39	0	3.00
ES Atkinson	1	0	4	0	4.00
OG Smith	42	19	90	5	2.14
JS Solomon	21	9	44	0	2.09
BF Butcher	6	1	17	0	2.83
CC Hunte	4	2	4	0	1.00

Toss India, who chose to bat first
Series West Indies won the 5-match series 3-0

Test debut RB Desai (India)

Umpires SK Ganguli and ND Nagarwala

Close of play
6 Feb day 1 - India 1st innings 236/4 (CG Borde 34*, DK Gaekwad 6*)
7 Feb day 2 - West Indies 1st innings 64/0 (CC Hunte 44*, JKC Holt 20*)
8 Feb day 3 - West Indies 1st innings 408/4 (OG Smith 70*, JS Solomon 4*)
9 Feb rest day
10 Feb day 4 - India 2nd innings 31/1 (P Roy 9*, DK Gaekwad 16*)
11 Feb day 5 - India 2nd innings 275 (111.2 ov) - end of match

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