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| Venue | Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th February 1981 (5-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Australia won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | India won by 59 runs |
| Umpires | MW Johnson, RV Whitehead |
| Scorers | MP Ringham (Australia), MK Walsh (India) |
| Close of play day 1 | Australia (1) 12/0 (Dyson 9*, Wood 1*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Australia (1) 272/4 (Border 95*, Walters 36*) |
| Close of play day 3 | India (2) 108/0 (Gavaskar 59*, Chauhan 41*) |
| Close of play day 4 | Australia (2) 24/3 (Hughes 4*, Yardley 4*) |
| Player of the Match | GR Viswanath |
| India first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *SM Gavaskar | c Hughes b Pascoe | 10 | 70 | 93 | - | - | |
| CPS Chauhan | c Yardley b Pascoe | 0 | 3 | 5 | - | - | |
| DB Vengsarkar | c Border b Lillee | 12 | 28 | 39 | 1 | - | |
| GR Viswanath | c Chappell b Yardley | 114 | 222 | 274 | 11 | - | |
| SM Patil | c Hughes b Lillee | 23 | 33 | 47 | 4 | - | |
| Yashpal Sharma | c Marsh b Lillee | 4 | 9 | 12 | - | - | |
| Kapil Dev | c Hughes b Pascoe | 5 | 13 | 17 | 1 | - | |
| +SMH Kirmani | c Marsh b Lillee | 25 | 44 | 58 | 1 | - | |
| KD Ghavri | run out | 0 | 21 | 25 | - | - | |
| NS Yadav | not out | 20 | 55 | 79 | 2 | - | |
| DR Doshi | c Walters b Yardley | 0 | 16 | 16 | - | - | |
| Extras | (1 b, 8 lb, 9 nb, 6 w) | 24 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 337 minutes, 84 overs) | 237 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Chauhan), 2-22 (Vengsarkar), 3-43 (Gavaskar), 4-91 (Patil), 5-99 (Yashpal Sharma), 6-115 (Kapil Dev), 7-164 (Kirmani), 8-190 (Ghavri), 9-230 (Viswanath), 10-237 (Doshi, 84 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Lillee | 25 | 6 | 65 | 4 | - | - | |
| Pascoe | 22 | 11 | 29 | 3 | - | - | |
| Chappell | 5 | 2 | 9 | 0 | - | - | |
| Yardley | 13 | 3 | 45 | 2 | - | - | |
| Higgs | 19 | 2 | 65 | 0 | - | - | |
| Australia first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| J Dyson | c Kirmani b Kapil Dev | 16 | 41 | 42 | - | - | |
| GM Wood | c Doshi b Ghavri | 10 | 25 | 49 | - | - | |
| *GS Chappell | c and b Ghavri | 76 | 175 | 227 | 6 | - | |
| KJ Hughes | c Chauhan b Yadav | 24 | 64 | 81 | 4 | - | |
| AR Border | b Yadav | 124 | 265 | 303 | 12 | - | |
| KD Walters | st Kirmani b Doshi | 78 | 148 | 209 | 6 | - | |
| +RW Marsh | c sub (KBJ Azad) b Doshi | 45 | 118 | 129 | 3 | - | |
| B Yardley | lbw b Doshi | 0 | 5 | 2 | - | - | |
| DK Lillee | c and b Patil | 19 | 72 | 77 | 2 | - | |
| LS Pascoe | lbw b Patil | 3 | 17 | 18 | - | - | |
| JD Higgs | not out | 1 | 15 | 15 | - | - | |
| Extras | (12 b, 6 lb, 5 nb) | 23 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 580 minutes, 156.3 overs) | 419 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-30 (Dyson), 2-32 (Wood), 3-81 (Hughes), 4-189 (Chappell), 5-320 (Border), 6-356 (Walters), 7-356 (Yardley), 8-413 (Lillee), 9-413 (Marsh), 10-419 (Pascoe, 156.3 ov) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Kapil Dev | 19 | 7 | 41 | 1 | - | - | |
| Doshi | 52 | 14 | 109 | 3 | - | - | |
| Ghavri | 39 | 4 | 110 | 2 | - | - | |
| Yadav | 32 | 6 | 100 | 2 | - | - | |
| Chauhan | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | - | - | |
| Patil | 12.3 | 4 | 28 | 2 | - | - | |
| India second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *SM Gavaskar | lbw b Lillee | 70 | 180 | 226 | 5 | - | |
| CPS Chauhan | c Yardley b Lillee | 85 | 198 | 243 | 12 | - | |
| DB Vengsarkar | c Marsh b Pascoe | 41 | 91 | 116 | 3 | - | |
| GR Viswanath | b Lillee | 30 | 72 | 94 | 3 | - | |
| SM Patil | c Chappell b Yardley | 36 | 26 | 46 | 1 | - | |
| Yashpal Sharma | b Pascoe | 9 | 23 | 18 | 1 | - | |
| +SMH Kirmani | run out | 9 | 17 | 42 | - | - | |
| Kapil Dev | b Yardley | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | - | |
| KD Ghavri | not out | 11 | 42 | 39 | 1 | - | |
| DR Doshi | b Lillee | 7 | 12 | 17 | 1 | - | |
| NS Yadav | absent hurt | ||||||
| Extras | (11 b, 8 lb, 7 nb) | 26 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 424 minutes, 109.1 overs) | 324 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-165 (Gavaskar), 2-176 (Chauhan), 3-243 (Viswanath), 4-245 (Vengsarkar), 5-260 (Yashpal Sharma), 6-296 (Patil), 7-296 (Kapil Dev), 8-308 (Kirmani), 9-324 (Doshi, 109.1 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Lillee | 32.1 | 5 | 104 | 4 | - | - | |
| Pascoe | 29 | 4 | 80 | 2 | - | - | |
| Higgs | 15 | 3 | 41 | 0 | - | - | |
| Yardley | 31 | 11 | 65 | 2 | - | - | |
| Border | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | - | - | |
| Australia second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| J Dyson | c Kirmani b Ghavri | 3 | 24 | 27 | - | - | |
| GM Wood | st Kirmani b Doshi | 10 | 41 | 56 | - | - | |
| *GS Chappell | b Ghavri | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| KJ Hughes | b Doshi | 16 | 49 | 65 | 1 | - | |
| B Yardley | b Kapil Dev | 7 | 58 | 73 | 1 | - | |
| AR Border | c Kirmani b Kapil Dev | 9 | 24 | 51 | 1 | - | |
| KD Walters | not out | 18 | 60 | 71 | 1 | - | |
| +RW Marsh | b Kapil Dev | 3 | 8 | 17 | - | - | |
| DK Lillee | b Kapil Dev | 4 | 5 | 7 | 1 | - | |
| LS Pascoe | run out | 6 | 15 | 15 | - | - | |
| JD Higgs | lbw b Kapil Dev | 0 | 9 | 13 | - | - | |
| Extras | (5 lb, 2 nb) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 203 minutes, 48.4 overs) | 83 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-11 (Dyson), 2-11 (Chappell), 3-18 (Wood), 4-40 (Hughes), 5-50 (Yardley), 6-55 (Border), 7-61 (Marsh), 8-69 (Lillee), 9-79 (Pascoe), 10-83 (Higgs, 48.4 ov) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Ghavri | 8 | 4 | 10 | 2 | - | - | |
| Patil | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | - | - | |
| Doshi | 22 | 9 | 33 | 2 | - | - | |
| Kapil Dev | 16.4 | 4 | 28 | 5 | - | - | |
Notes
--> KD Walters made his last appearance in Test matches
--> JD Higgs made his last appearance in Test matches
--> GR Viswanath (1) 50 in 117 balls
--> GR Viswanath (1) 100 in 188 balls, 231 minutes with 10 fours
--> GS Chappell (1) 50 in 100 balls
--> AR Border (1) 50 in 124 balls
--> AR Border (1) 100 in 217 balls, 258 minutes with 10 fours
--> AR Border (1) passed 2000 runs in Test matches when he reached 73
--> AR Border (1) passed 5000 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 96
--> KD Walters (1) 50 in 101 balls
--> SM Gavaskar (2) 50 in 116 balls
--> CPS Chauhan (2) 50 in 127 balls
--> CPS Chauhan (2) passed 9500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 41
--> KJ Hughes (2) passed 5500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 1
--> DK Lillee reached 250 wickets in Test matches when he dismissed GR Viswanath, his 3rd wicket in the India second innings
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