Indian cricket team in Australia in 1977–78
International cricket tour
Cricket series
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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
1st Test
2–6 December 1977 Scorecard |
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166 (46.7 overs) Peter Toohey 82 (142) Bishan Singh Bedi 5/55 (13.7 overs) | 153 (50 overs) Dilip Vengsarkar 48 (115) Wayne Clark 4/46 (18 overs) | |
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.
2nd Test
16–21 December 1977 Scorecard |
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- India won the toss and decided to bat.
3rd Test
30 December 1977–4 January 1978 Scorecard |
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India won by 222 runs Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Umpires: Dick French (Aus) and Max O'Connell (Aus) |
- India won the toss and decided to bat.
- This was India's first Test win in Australia.[1]
4th Test
7–12 January 1978 Scorecard |
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India won by an innings and 2 runs Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Umpires: Robin Bailhache (Aus) and Tom Brooks (Aus) |
- Australia won the toss and decided to bat.
5th Test
28 January–3 February 1978 Scorecard |
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- 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. ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
External sources
- India in Australia, 1977/78 at ESPNcricinfo archive
- India in Australia 1977/78 at CricketArchive (subscription required)
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