English cricket team in India in 1981–82

English cricket team in India in 1981–82

	England	India
Dates	11 November 1981 – 4 February 1982
Captains	Keith Fletcher	Sunil Gavaskar
Test series
Result	India won the 6-match series 1–0
Most runs	Graham Gooch (487)	Sunil Gavaskar (500)
Most wickets	Ian Botham (17)	Dilip Doshi (22) Kapil Dev (22)
Player of the series	Kapil Dev

The England cricket team toured India from 11 November 1981 to 4 February 1982 and played 6 Test matches.

India won the Test series 1-0.

Test matches

1st Test

27 Nov-1 Dec 1981
scorecard

India	v	England
179 (57 overs) Sunil Gavaskar 55 Graham Dilley 4/47 (13 overs)		166 (100.1 overs) Geoff Boycott 60 Dilip Doshi 5/39 (29.1 overs)
227 (77.3 overs) Kapil Dev 46 Ian Botham 5/61 (22.3 overs)		102 (26.2 overs) Ian Botham 29 Madan Lal 5/23 (12 overs)

India won by 138 runs
Wankhede Stadium, Bombay
Umpires: S Kishen, KB Ramaswami
Player of the match: Kapil Dev

India won the toss and decided to bat

2nd Test

9–14 December 1981
Scorecard

England	v	India
400 (158 overs) David Gower 82 Ravi Shastri 4/83 (43 overs)		428 (150 overs) Sunil Gavaskar 172 John Lever 5/100 (36 overs)
174/3 d. (69 overs) Geoff Boycott 50 Ravi Shastri 1/31 (20 overs)

Match drawn
M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Umpires: MV Gothoskar, PR Punjabi
Player of the match: Sunil Gavaskar

England won the toss and decided to bat

3rd Test

23–28 December 1981
scorecard

England	v	India
476/9 d. (156.4 overs) Chris Tavaré 149 Madan Lal 5/85 (32 overs)		487 (160.1 overs) Gundappa Viswanath 107 Graham Gooch 2/12 (8.1 overs)
68/0 d. (19 overs) Geoff Boycott 34 Madan Lal 0/4 (3 overs)

Match drawn
Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Umpires: SN Hanumantha Rao, S Kishen
Player of the match: Chris Tavaré

England won the toss and decided to bat

4th Test

Eden Gardens, Calcutta
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England	v	India
248 (108.2 overs) Keith Fletcher 69 Kapil Dev 6/91 (31 overs)		208 (100 overs) Dilip Vengsarkar 70 Derek Underwood 3/45 (29 overs)
265/5 d. (90 overs) David Gower 74 Dilip Doshi 2/63 (27 overs)		170/3 (83 overs) Sunil Gavaskar 83 John Emburey 2/62 (30 overs)

Match drawn
Eden Gardens, Calcutta
Umpires: MV Gothoskar, S Kishen
Player of the match: Keith Fletcher

England won the toss and decided to bat

5th Test

13–18 January 1982
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India	v	England
481/4 d. (152.1 overs) Gundappa Viswanath 222 Bob Willis 2/79 (28.1 overs)		328 (155.5 overs) Graham Gooch 127 Dilip Doshi 4/69 (57 overs)
160/3 d. (50 overs) Pankaj Roy 60 Bob Willis 1/15 (7 overs)

Match drawn
MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Madras
Umpires: B Ganguli, SN Hanumantha Rao
Player of the match: Gundappa Viswanath

England won the toss and decided to field

6th Test

30 Jan-4 Feb 1982
scorecard

England	v	India
378/9 d. (115.2 overs) Ian Botham 142 Dilip Doshi 4/81 (34.2 overs)		377/7 d. (122 overs) Kapil Dev 116 Bob Willis 3/75 (23 overs)

Match drawn
Modi Stadium, Kanpur
Umpires: DN Dotiwalla, MV Gothoskar

England won the toss and decided to bat

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