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| Venue | Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain on 3rd, 4th, 5th March 1978 (5-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | West Indies won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | West Indies won by an innings and 106 runs |
| Umpires | RG Gosein, D Sang Hue |
| Close of play day 1 | West Indies (1) 79/0 (Greenidge 26*, Haynes 53*) |
| Close of play day 2 | West Indies (1) 391/9 (Roberts 2*, Croft 0*) |
| Australia first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| GM Wood | c Haynes b Croft | 2 | 25 | - | - | ||
| CS Serjeant | c Murray b Croft | 3 | 64 | - | - | ||
| GN Yallop | c Richards b Croft | 2 | 18 | - | - | ||
| PM Toohey | b Garner | 20 | 66 | 2 | - | ||
| *RB Simpson | lbw b Garner | 0 | 13 | - | - | ||
| GJ Cosier | c Greenidge b Croft | 46 | 88 | 7 | - | ||
| +SJ Rixon | run out | 1 | 9 | - | - | ||
| B Yardley | c Murray b Roberts | 2 | 19 | - | - | ||
| JR Thomson | c Austin b Roberts | 0 | 4 | - | - | ||
| WM Clark | b Garner | 0 | 15 | - | - | ||
| JD Higgs | not out | 0 | 6 | - | - | ||
| Extras | (4 b, 6 lb, 4 nb) | 14 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 35.1 overs) | 90 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-7 (Wood), 2-10 (Yallop), 3-16 (Serjeant), 4-23 (Simpson), 5-45 (Rixon), 6-75 (Yardley), 7-75 (Thomson), 8-84 (Clark), 9-90 (Toohey), 10-90 (Cosier, 35.1 ov) | |||||||
| West Indies bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Roberts | 12 | 4 | 26 | 2 | - | - | |
| Croft | 9.1 | 5 | 15 | 4 | - | - | |
| Garner | 14 | 6 | 35 | 3 | - | - | |
| West Indies first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| CG Greenidge | b Yardley | 43 | 145 | 8 | - | ||
| DL Haynes | c Rixon b Higgs | 61 | 75 | 7 | 2 | ||
| IVA Richards | lbw b Thomson | 39 | 64 | 5 | - | ||
| AI Kallicharran | b Yardley | 127 | 258 | 17 | - | ||
| *CH Lloyd | b Thomson | 86 | 160 | 10 | 1 | ||
| RA Austin | c sub (TJ Laughlin) b Thomson | 2 | 26 | - | - | ||
| +DL Murray | c Rixon b Higgs | 21 | 70 | 1 | - | ||
| DR Parry | b Yardley | 0 | 2 | - | - | ||
| AME Roberts | st Rixon b Higgs | 7 | 39 | - | - | ||
| J Garner | c Cosier b Higgs | 0 | 3 | - | - | ||
| CEH Croft | not out | 4 | 20 | - | - | ||
| Extras | (9 lb, 6 nb) | 15 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 109.5 overs) | 405 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-87 (Haynes), 2-143 (Richards), 3-143 (Greenidge), 4-313 (Lloyd), 5-324 (Austin), 6-385 (Kallicharran), 7-385 (Parry), 8-391 (Murray), 9-391 (Garner), 10-405 (Roberts, 109.5 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Thomson | 21 | 6 | 84 | 3 | - | - | |
| Clark | 16 | 3 | 41 | 0 | - | - | |
| Higgs | 24.5 | 3 | 91 | 4 | - | - | |
| Simpson | 16 | 2 | 65 | 0 | - | - | |
| Yardley | 19 | 1 | 64 | 3 | - | - | |
| Cosier | 13 | 2 | 45 | 0 | - | - | |
| Australia second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| GM Wood | lbw b Roberts | 32 | 54 | 4 | - | ||
| CS Serjeant | lbw b Garner | 40 | 79 | 7 | - | ||
| GN Yallop | b Roberts | 81 | 195 | 7 | - | ||
| GJ Cosier | lbw b Garner | 19 | 110 | - | 1 | ||
| *RB Simpson | b Parry | 14 | 68 | - | - | ||
| +SJ Rixon | lbw b Roberts | 0 | 2 | - | - | ||
| B Yardley | not out | 7 | 18 | 1 | - | ||
| JR Thomson | b Parry | 4 | 2 | - | - | ||
| WM Clark | b Roberts | 0 | 3 | - | - | ||
| JD Higgs | b Roberts | 2 | 6 | - | - | ||
| PM Toohey | absent hurt | ||||||
| Extras | (6 b, 1 lb, 2 nb, 1 w) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 63.2 overs) | 209 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-59 (Wood), 2-90 (Serjeant), 3-149 (Cosier), 4-194 (Yallop), 5-194 (Rixon), 6-194 (Simpson), 7-200 (Thomson), 8-201 (Clark), 9-209 (Higgs, 63.2 ov) | |||||||
| West Indies bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Roberts | 16.2 | 3 | 56 | 5 | - | - | |
| Croft | 13 | 1 | 55 | 0 | - | - | |
| Garner | 17 | 5 | 39 | 2 | - | - | |
| Parry | 17 | 1 | 49 | 2 | - | - | |
Notes
--> The match was scheduled for five days but completed in three.
--> JD Higgs made his debut in Test matches
--> DL Haynes made his debut in Test matches
--> RA Austin made his debut in Test matches
--> DR Parry made his debut in Test matches
--> DL Haynes (1) 50 in 38 balls, 57 minutes
--> AI Kallicharran (1) 50 in 97 balls
--> AI Kallicharran (1) 100 in 174 balls, 223 minutes with 13 fours
--> AI Kallicharran (1) passed 3000 runs in Test matches when he reached 77
--> CH Lloyd (1) 50 in 79 balls
--> CH Lloyd (1) passed 4500 runs in Test matches when he reached 34
--> GN Yallop (2) 50 in 107 balls
--> RA Austin made his debut for West Indies in First-Class matches
--> DL Haynes made his debut for West Indies in First-Class matches
--> JD Higgs made his debut for Australia in First-Class matches
--> DR Parry made his debut for West Indies in First-Class matches
--> JR Thomson made his debut in West Indies in Test matches
--> GJ Cosier made his debut in West Indies in First-Class matches
--> GJ Cosier made his debut in West Indies in Test matches
--> GN Yallop made his debut in West Indies in Test matches
--> CS Serjeant made his debut in West Indies in Test matches
--> WM Clark made his debut in West Indies in Test matches
--> SJ Rixon made his debut in West Indies in Test matches
--> PM Toohey made his debut in West Indies in Test matches
--> GM Wood made his debut in West Indies in Test matches
--> B Yardley made his debut in West Indies in Test matches
--> DR Parry reached 50 wickets in First-Class matches when he dismissed RB Simpson, his 1st wicket in the Australia second innings
--> PM Toohey retired hurt in the Australia first innings having scored 15 (team score 37/4) - he returned when the score was 84/8
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