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| Venue | Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney on 8th, 9th, 10th, 12th, 13th January 1972 (5-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Australia won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | TF Brooks, PR Enright |
| Close of play day 1 | World XI (1) 6/1 (Gavaskar 4*, Asif Masood 0*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Australia (2) 11/0 (Inverarity 3*, Stackpole 5*) |
| Close of play day 3 | Australia (2) 414/6 (GS Chappell 107*, O'Keeffe 30*) |
| Close of play day 4 | World XI (2) 173/5 (Gavaskar 68*, Intikhab Alam 1*) |
| Australia first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| KR Stackpole | b Bedi | 104 | |||||
| RJ Inverarity | c Pollock b Cunis | 12 | |||||
| *IM Chappell | b Bedi | 17 | |||||
| J Benaud | c and b Intikhab Alam | 54 | |||||
| GS Chappell | b Bedi | 0 | |||||
| KD Walters | c Pollock b Asif Masood | 8 | |||||
| +RW Marsh | not out | 77 | |||||
| KJ O'Keeffe | run out (Sobers->Engineer) | 20 | |||||
| TJ Jenner | c Engineer b Bedi | 7 | |||||
| RAL Massie | b Intikhab Alam | 1 | |||||
| DK Lillee | c Cunis b Intikhab Alam | 5 | |||||
| Extras | (2 b, 3 lb, 2 nb) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 330 minutes, 69.2 overs) | 312 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-55, 2-101, 3-148, 4-148, 5-163, 6-232, 7-269, 8-281, 9-306, 10-312 (69.2 ov) | |||||||
| World XI bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Sobers | 6 | 1 | 33 | 0 | - | - | |
| Asif Masood | 8 | 0 | 36 | 1 | - | 2 | |
| Cunis | 9 | 0 | 48 | 1 | - | - | |
| Greig | 6 | 1 | 28 | 0 | - | - | |
| Bedi | 20 | 3 | 85 | 4 | - | - | |
| Intikhab Alam | 20.2 | 1 | 75 | 3 | - | - | |
| World XI first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| HM Ackerman | c Inverarity b Massie | 1 | |||||
| SM Gavaskar | c Stackpole b Massie | 6 | |||||
| Asif Masood | c Lillee b Massie | 0 | |||||
| Zaheer Abbas | c Stackpole b Massie | 0 | |||||
| RG Pollock | c Stackpole b Massie | 37 | |||||
| *GS Sobers | c Marsh b Massie | 15 | |||||
| AW Greig | c Marsh b Lillee | 70 | |||||
| +FM Engineer | c Inverarity b Jenner | 36 | |||||
| Intikhab Alam | not out | 73 | |||||
| RS Cunis | c Marsh b Inverarity | 6 | |||||
| BS Bedi | c O'Keeffe b Massie | 19 | |||||
| Extras | (3 b, 8 lb, 2 nb, 1 w) | 14 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 352 minutes, 69.6 overs) | 277 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-6, 2-6, 3-8, 4-21, 5-61, 6-68, 7-134, 8-216, 9-230, 10-277 (69.6 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Lillee | 19 | 4 | 70 | 1 | 1 | - | |
| Massie | 20.6 | 5 | 76 | 7 | - | - | |
| GS Chappell | 3 | 0 | 17 | 0 | - | - | |
| Jenner | 18 | 2 | 69 | 1 | - | - | |
| O'Keeffe | 7 | 2 | 25 | 0 | - | 2 | |
| Inverarity | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | - | - | |
| Australia second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RJ Inverarity | b Cunis | 9 | |||||
| KR Stackpole | b Sobers | 95 | |||||
| *IM Chappell | c Engineer b Asif Masood | 119 | |||||
| J Benaud | c Ackerman b Bedi | 17 | |||||
| GS Chappell | not out | 197 | |||||
| KD Walters | b Intikhab Alam | 4 | |||||
| +RW Marsh | c Gavaskar b Asif Masood | 22 | |||||
| KJ O'Keeffe | st Engineer b Bedi | 54 | |||||
| TJ Jenner | c Sobers b Intikhab Alam | 14 | |||||
| RAL Massie | c Ackerman b Intikhab Alam | 0 | |||||
| DK Lillee | b Intikhab Alam | 2 | |||||
| Extras | (6 b, 3 lb, 4 nb) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 482 minutes, 102.4 overs) | 546 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-32, 2-185, 3-207, 4-294, 5-301, 6-350, 7-484, 8-541, 9-541, 10-546 (102.4 ov) | |||||||
| World XI bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Asif Masood | 13 | 0 | 84 | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Cunis | 15 | 1 | 80 | 1 | - | - | |
| Sobers | 13 | 0 | 63 | 1 | - | - | |
| Bedi | 29 | 2 | 144 | 2 | - | - | |
| Greig | 8 | 2 | 30 | 0 | - | 1 | |
| Intikhab Alam | 24.4 | 1 | 132 | 4 | - | 1 | |
| World XI second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| HM Ackerman | c IM Chappell b Inverarity | 87 | |||||
| SM Gavaskar | not out | 68 | |||||
| Zaheer Abbas | b O'Keeffe | 1 | |||||
| RG Pollock | c Inverarity b O'Keeffe | 0 | |||||
| *GS Sobers | b Inverarity | 2 | |||||
| +FM Engineer | c Stackpole b O'Keeffe | 2 | |||||
| Intikhab Alam | not out | 1 | |||||
| Asif Masood | did not bat | ||||||
| AW Greig | did not bat | ||||||
| RS Cunis | did not bat | ||||||
| BS Bedi | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 7 lb, 1 nb, 2 w) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 211 minutes, 48 overs) | 173 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-155, 2-156, 3-156, 4-159, 5-164 | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Lillee | 7 | 2 | 28 | 0 | 1 | - | |
| Massie | 4 | 1 | 19 | 0 | 1 | - | |
| GS Chappell | 5 | 1 | 29 | 0 | - | 1 | |
| Jenner | 6 | 1 | 20 | 0 | - | - | |
| Inverarity | 14 | 6 | 31 | 2 | - | - | |
| O'Keeffe | 12 | 1 | 34 | 3 | - | - | |
Notes
--> There was no play on the final day.
--> KR Stackpole (1) passed 6500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 100
--> RG Pollock (1) passed 10000 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 5
--> GS Chappell (2) passed his previous highest score of 156 in First-Class matches
--> HM Ackerman (2) passed 8000 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 68
--> RAL Massie achieved his best innings bowling analysis in First-Class matches in the World XI first innings (previous best was 4-18)
--> RAL Massie achieved his first five wickets in an innings in First-Class matches in the World XI first innings
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