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Test no. 579

New Zealand in India Test Series - 1st Test
India v New Zealand

1964/65 season

Played at Corporation Stadium, Madras, on 27,28 February, 1,2 March 1965 (4-day match)

Result Match drawn


India 1st innings			R	M	4s	6s
	DN Sardesai	b Pollard	22	86	4	0
	ML Jaisimha	c Morgan b Motz	51	160	9	0
	VL Manjrekar	c Dowling b Pollard	19	65	1	0
	CG Borde	c Reid b Motz	68	180	10	0
	Nawab of Pataudi jnr	b Motz	9	13	1	0
	Hanumant Singh	c Ward b Pollard	0	15	0	0
	SA Durani	b Reid	34	96	4	0
	RG Nadkarni	c Collinge b Yuile	75	177	10	0
	FM Engineer	c Pollard b Yuile	90	115	14	0
	RF Surti	not out	9	31	1	0
	S Venkataraghavan	b Collinge	4	24	0	0
	Extras	(b 10, lb 1, nb 5)	16

	Total	(all out; 143.5 overs)	397	(2.76 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-51 (Sardesai), 2-94 (Manjrekar), 3-94 (Jaisimha), 4-107 (Pataudi), 5-114 (Hanumant Singh), 6-202 (Durani), 7-232 (Borde), 8-375 (Engineer), 9-378 (Nadkarni), 10-397 (Venkataraghavan)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
RO Collinge	22.5	5	55	1	2.40
RC Motz	30	6	87	3	2.90
JR Reid	30	11	70	1	2.33
BW Yuile	20	7	62	2	3.10
V Pollard	34	16	90	3	2.64
RW Morgan	7	2	17	0	2.42


New Zealand 1st innings			R	M	4s	6s
	TW Jarvis	b Durani	9	123	0	0
	GT Dowling	b Venkataraghavan	29	75	5	0
	BW Sinclair	b Venkataraghavan	30	145	4	0
	JR Reid	lbw b Nadkarni	42	45	7	1
	RW Morgan	lbw b Durani	39	156	6	0
	B Sutcliffe	b Surti	56	160	9	0
	BW Yuile	c Nadkarni b Durani	0	17	0	0
	V Pollard	c Venkataraghavan b Jaisimha	3	39	0	0
	RC Motz	b Nadkarni	11	60	2	0
	JT Ward	not out	35	130	6	0
	RO Collinge	lbw b Borde	34	72	4	1
	Extras	(b 8, lb 10, w 3, nb 6)	27

	Total	(all out; 179 overs)	315	(1.75 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-38 (Dowling), 2-58 (Jarvis), 3-119 (Reid), 4-139 (Sinclair), 5-200 (Morgan), 6-200 (Yuile), 7-227 (Sutcliffe), 8-227 (Pollard), 9-254 (Motz), 10-315 (Collinge)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
ML Jaisimha	12	4	30	1	2.50
RF Surti	33	12	55	1	1.66
SA Durani	45	23	53	3	1.17
S Venkataraghavan	48	23	90	2	1.87
RG Nadkarni	36	21	42	2	1.16
CG Borde	5	2	18	1	3.60


India 2nd innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	DN Sardesai	retired hurt	0	7	6	0	0	0.00
	ML Jaisimha	c Collinge b Yuile	49	90		9	1
	VL Manjrekar	not out	102	200		14	0
	CG Borde	b Pollard	20	58		3	0
	RF Surti	not out	17	63		3	0
	Extras	(b 3, lb 1, nb 7)	11

	Total	(2 wickets dec; 58.1 overs)	199	(3.42 runs per over)

Did not bat

Nawab of Pataudi jnr, Hanumant Singh, SA Durani, RG Nadkarni,

FM Engineer, S Venkataraghavan

Fall of wickets0-1* (Sardesai, retired not out), 1-88 (Jaisimha), 2-130 (Borde)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
RO Collinge	9	2	29	0	3.22
RC Motz	19	1	57	0	3.00
BW Yuile	11.1	0	53	1	4.74
V Pollard	14	4	32	1	2.28
RW Morgan	5	2	17	0	3.40


New Zealand 2nd innings (target: 282 runs)			R	M	4s	6s
	TW Jarvis	not out	40	60	8	0
	GT Dowling	not out	21	60	4	0
	Extras	(nb 1)	1

	Total	(0 wickets; 21 overs)	62	(2.95 runs per over)

Did not bat BW Sinclair,

JR Reid, RW Morgan, B Sutcliffe, BW Yuile, V Pollard, RC Motz,

JT Ward, RO Collinge


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
ML Jaisimha	4	2	8	0	2.00
RF Surti	1	0	10	0	10.00
SA Durani	1	0	4	0	4.00
Nawab of Pataudi jnr	3	2	9	0	3.00
Hanumant Singh	6	0	19	0	3.16
VL Manjrekar	6	4	11	0	1.83

Toss India, who chose to bat first
Series 4-match series level 0-0

Test debuts S Venkataraghavan (India); TW Jarvis and V Pollard (New Zealand)

Umpires Mohammad Yunus and SK Raghunatha Rao

Close of play
27 Feb day 1 - India 1st innings 225/6 (CG Borde 68*, RG Nadkarni 14*)
28 Feb day 2 - New Zealand 1st innings 93/2 (BW Sinclair 25*, JR Reid 16*)
1 Mar day 3 - New Zealand 1st innings 283/9 (JT Ward 20*, RO Collinge 20*)
2 Mar day 4 - New Zealand 2nd innings 62/0 (21 ov) - end of match

Match notes

DN Sardesai retired hurt at 1/0