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England v India, 1974, 1st test
Manchester (Old Trafford), 06/06/1974 - 11/06/1974

Toss: England
Umpires: HD Bird, DJ Constant
Result: England won by 113 runs

England
G Boycott             lbw                b Abid Ali              10
DL Amiss              c Madan Lal        b Chandrasekhar         56
JH Edrich                                b Abid Ali               7
*MH Denness                              b Bedi                  26
KWR Fletcher          not out                                   123
DL Underwood          c Solkar           b Bedi                   7
AW Greig              c Engineer         b Madan Lal             53
+APE Knott            lbw                b Madan Lal              0
CM Old                c Engineer         b Chandrasekhar         12
RGD Willis            lbw                b Abid Ali              24
Extras                b 1, lb 7, w 1, nb 1                       10
Total                 for 9 wickets                             328

Fall Of Wickets
1-18 (Boycott)                2-28 (Edrich)                 
3-90 (Denness)                4-104 (Amiss)                 
5-127 (Underwood)             6-231 (Greig)                 
7-231 (Knott)                 8-265 (Old)                   
9-328 (Willis)                

Bowling
Abid Ali            30.3    6    79     3
Solkar              13      4    33     0
Madan Lal           31     11    56     2
Venkataraghavan      5      1     8     0
Bedi                43     14    87     2
Chandrasekhar       21      4    55     2

India
SM Gavaskar           run out                                   101
ED Solkar             c Willis           b Hendrick               7
S Venkataraghavan                        b Willis                 3
*AL Wadekar           c Hendrick         b Old                    6
GR Viswanath                             b Underwood             40
BP Patel              c Knott            b Willis                 5
+FM Engineer                             b Willis                 0
S Madan Lal                              b Hendrick               2
S Abid Ali            c Knott            b Hendrick              71
BS Bedi                                  b Willis                 0
BS Chandrasekhar      not out                                     0
Extras                b 3, lb 3, w 0, nb 5                       11
Total                 all out                                   246

Fall Of Wickets
1-22 (Solkar)                 2-25 (Venkataraghavan)        
3-32 (Wadekar)                4-105 (Viswanath)             
5-129 (Patel)                 6-135 (Engineer)              
7-143 (Madan Lal)             8-228 (Gavaskar)              
9-228 (Bedi)                  10-246 (Abid Ali)             

Bowling
Willis              24      3    64     4
Old                 16      0    46     1
Hendrick            20      4    57     3
Underwood           19      7    50     1
Greig                5      1    18     0

England
G Boycott             c Engineer         b Solkar                 6
DL Amiss              c Gavaskar         b Bedi                  47
DL Underwood          c Engineer         b Abid Ali               9
JH Edrich             not out                                   100
*MH Denness           not out                                    45
Extras                b 4, lb 2, w 0, nb 0                        6
Total                 for 3 wickets                             213

Fall Of Wickets
1-13 (Boycott)                2-30 (Underwood)              
3-104 (Amiss)                 

Bowling
Abid Ali            11      2    31     1
Solkar               7      0    24     1
Madan Lal           12      2    39     0
Venkataraghavan      9      1    17     0
Bedi                20      2    58     1
Chandrasekhar       11      2    38     0

India
SM Gavaskar           c Hendrick         b Old                   58
ED Solkar             c Hendrick         b Underwood             19
*AL Wadekar           c Knott            b Greig                 14
GR Viswanath          c Knott            b Old                   50
BP Patel              c Knott            b Old                    3
+FM Engineer          c Knott            b Hendrick              12
S Madan Lal           hit wicket         b Willis                 7
S Abid Ali            c Boycott          b Greig                  4
S Venkataraghavan     not out                                     5
BS Bedi                                  b Old                    0
BS Chandrasekhar      st Knott           b Greig                  0
Extras                b 1, lb 2, w 0, nb 7                       10
Total                 all out                                   182

Fall Of Wickets
1-32 (Solkar)                 2-68 (Wadekar)                
3-103 (Gavaskar)              4-111 (Patel)                 
5-139 (Engineer)              6-157 (Madan Lal)             
7-165 (Abid Ali)              8-180 (Viswanath)             
9-180 (Bedi)                  10-182 (Chandrasekhar)        

Bowling
Willis              12      5    33     1
Old                 16      7    20     4
Hendrick            17      1    39     1
Underwood           15      4    45     1
Greig               25.1    8    35     3