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Test no. 304

West Indies in India Test Series - 1st Test
India v West Indies

1948/49 season

Played at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi, on 10,11,12,13,14 November 1948 (5-day match)

Result Match drawn


West Indies 1st innings			R	M	4s	6s
	AF Rae	c Sen b Rangachari	8			0
	JB Stollmeyer	lbw b Rangachari	13			0
	GA Headley	b Rangachari	2		0	0
	CL Walcott	run out	152	245	12	0
	GE Gomez	st Sen b Amarnath	101		7	0
	JDC Goddard	b Mankad	44			0
	ED Weekes	c Hazare b Mankad	128	194	16	0
	RJ Christiani	c Hazare b Rangachari	107			0
	FJ Cameron	lbw b Sarwate	2		0	0
	DS Atkinson	c Sen b Rangachari	45			0
	PEW Jones	not out	1		0	0
	Extras	(b 20, lb 8)	28

	Total	(all out; 183.4 overs)	631	(3.43 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-15 (Rae), 2-22 (Stollmeyer), 3-27 (Headley), 4-294 (Walcott), 5-302 (Gomez), 6-403 (Goddard), 7-521 (Weekes), 8-524 (Cameron), 9-630 (Christiani), 10-631 (Atkinson)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
DG Phadkar	18	1	61	0	3.38
L Amarnath	25	3	73	1	2.92
CR Rangachari	29.4	4	107	5	3.60
MH Mankad	59	10	176	2	2.98
KK Tarapore	19	2	72	0	3.78
VS Hazare	17	1	62	0	3.64
CT Sarwate	16	0	52	1	3.25


India 1st innings			R	M	4s	6s
	MH Mankad	lbw b Jones	5			0
	KC Ibrahim	lbw b Gomez	85		9	1
	RS Modi	c Rae b Cameron	63			0
	L Amarnath	c Christiani b Jones	62			0
	VS Hazare	c Atkinson b Gomez	18			0
	DG Phadkar	c Weekes b Stollmeyer	41			0
	HR Adhikari	not out	114	245	10	0
	CT Sarwate	st Walcott b Stollmeyer	37			0
	PK Sen	c Walcott b Cameron	22			0
	CR Rangachari	c & b Goddard	0		0	0
	KK Tarapore	c Walcott b Jones	2		0	0
	Extras	(b 1, lb 3, nb 1)	5

	Total	(all out; 158.4 overs)	454	(2.86 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-8 (Mankad), 2-129 (Modi), 3-181 (Ibrahim), 4-223 (Hazare), 5-249 (Amarnath), 6-309 (Phadkar), 7-388 (Sarwate), 8-419 (Sen), 9-438 (Rangachari), 10-454 (Tarapore)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
PEW Jones	28.4	5	90	3	3.13
GE Gomez	39	14	76	2	1.94
DS Atkinson	13	3	27	0	2.07
GA Headley	2	0	13	0	6.50
FJ Cameron	27	3	74	2	2.74
JB Stollmeyer	15	0	80	2	5.33
JDC Goddard	30	7	83	1	2.76
RJ Christiani	4	0	6	0	1.50


India 2nd innings (following on)			R	6s
	MH Mankad	b Goddard	17	0
	KC Ibrahim	run out	44	0
	RS Modi	b Christiani	36	0
	L Amarnath	b Cameron	36	0
	VS Hazare	b Christiani	7	0
	DG Phadkar	c & b Christiani	5	0
	HR Adhikari	not out	29	0
	CT Sarwate	not out	35	0
	Extras	(b 8, lb 3)	11

	Total	(6 wickets; 102 overs)	220	(2.15 runs per over)

Did not bat

PK Sen, CR Rangachari, KK Tarapore

Fall of wickets1-44 (Mankad), 2-102 (Ibrahim), 3-111 (Modi), 4-121 (Hazare), 5-142 (Phadkar), 6-162 (Amarnath)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
PEW Jones	10	2	32	0	3.20
GE Gomez	10	4	17	0	1.70
DS Atkinson	5	0	11	0	2.20
GA Headley	1	0	5	0	5.00
FJ Cameron	27	10	49	1	1.81
JB Stollmeyer	10	2	23	0	2.30
JDC Goddard	15	7	18	1	1.20
RJ Christiani	23	1	52	3	2.26
ED Weekes	1	0	2	0	2.00

Toss West Indies, who chose to bat first
Series 5-match series level 0-0

Test debuts KC Ibrahim and KK Tarapore (India); DS Atkinson, FJ Cameron and AF Rae (West Indies)

Umpires DK Naik and JR Patel

Close of play
10 Nov day 1 - West Indies 1st innings 294/3 (CL Walcott 152*, GE Gomez 99*)
11 Nov day 2 - West Indies 1st innings 623/8 (RJ Christiani 103*, DS Atkinson 42*)
12 Nov day 3 - India 1st innings 223/3 (L Amarnath 50*, VS Hazare 18*)
13 Nov day 4 - India 1st innings 454
14 Nov day 5 - India 2nd innings 220/6 (102 ov) - end of match