Indian cricket team in New Zealand in 1980–81

Indian cricket team in New Zealand in 1980–81

	India	New Zealand
Dates	14 February – 18 March 1981
Captains	Sunil Gavaskar	Geoff Howarth
Test series
Result	New Zealand won the 3-match series 1–0

The India national cricket team toured New Zealand from 14 February to 18 March 1981 and played a three-match Test series against New Zealand. New Zealand won the series 1–0.

Test Matches

1st Test

21–25 February 1981
Scorecard

New Zealand	v	India
375 (119 overs) Geoff Howarth 137 Ravi Shastri 3/54 (28 overs)		223 (72.4 overs) Sandeep Patil 64 Lance Cairns 5/33 (19.4 overs)
100 (49 overs) Bruce Edgar 28 Kapil Dev 4/34 (16 overs)		190 (75.3 overs) Sandeep Patil 42 Richard Hadlee 4/65 (22.3 overs)

New Zealand won by 62 runs
Basin Reserve, Wellington
Umpires: FR Goodall, SJ Woodward
Player of the match: Geoff Howarth, sandeep Patil

India won the toss and decided to field

2nd Test

6–11 March 1981

India	v	New Zealand
255 (127 overs) Chetan Chauhan 78 Richard Hadlee 5/47 (33 overs)		286/5 (145 overs) John Reid 123 Ravi Shastri 2/65 (42 overs)

Match drawn
Lancaster Park, Christchurch
Umpires: JBR Hastie, DA Kinsella
Player of the match: John Reid

India won the toss and decided to bat

3rd Test

13–18 March 1981
Scorecard

India	v	New Zealand
238 (130.3 overs) Syed Kirmani 78 John Bracewell 4/61 (42.3 overs)		366 (186 overs) John Wright 110 Ravi Shastri 5/125 (56 overs)
284 (120.5 overs) Sandeep Patil 57 John Bracewell 5/75 (41 overs)		95/5 (62 overs) Jock Edwards 47 Dilip Doshi 2/18 (19 overs)

Match drawn
Eden Park, Auckland
Umpires: FR Goodall, SJ Woodward
Player of the match: John Wright, Ravi Shastri

India won the toss and decided to bat

External links

cricketarchive

International cricket tours of New Zealand

Test and LOI tours

Australia	1945–46 1973–74 1976–77 1981–82 1985–86 1989–90 1992–93 1997–98 1999–2000 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2009–10 2015–16 2017–18

Bangladesh	1997–98 2001–02 2007–08 2009–10 2016–17

England	1929–30 1932–33 1946–47 1950–51 1954–55 1958–59 1962–63 1965–66 1970–71 1974–75 1977–78 1983–84 1987–88 1991–92 1996–97 2001–02 2007–08 2012–13 2017–18 2019–20

India	1967–68 1975–76 1980–81 1989–90 1993–94 1998–99 2002–03 2008–09 2013–14 2018–19

Pakistan	1964–65 1972–73 1978–79 1984–85 1988–89 1992–93 1993–94 1995–96 2000–01 2003–04 2009–10 2010–11 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2019–20

South Africa	1931–32 1952–53 1963–64 1994–95 1998–99 2003–04 2011–12 2014–15 2016–17

Sri Lanka	1982–83 1990–91 1994–95 1996–97 2000–01 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2014–15 2015-16 2018–19

West Indies	1930–31 1951–52 1955–56 1968–69 1979–80 1986–87 1994–95 1999–2000 2005–06 2008–09 2013–14 2017–18

Zimbabwe	1995–96 1997–98 2000–01 2011–12

Tournaments hosted

Multiple teams	1991–92 1994–95 2014–15

Other tours

Australian	1877–78 1880–81 1886–87 1896–97 1904–05 1909–10 1913–14 1920–21 1927–28 1949–50 1956–57 1959–60 1966–67 1969–70

Dutch	1987–88 1992–93

English	1863–64 1876–77 1878–79 1881–82 1887–88 1902–03 1906–07 1922–23 1935–36 1936–37 1938–39 1960–61 1979–80

Fijian	1894–95 1947–48 1953–54 1961–62 1967–68 1977–78

Multi-national	1961–62 1978–79

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, July 15, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.