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England v India, 1979, 1st test
Birmingham (Edgbaston), 12/07/1979 - 16/07/1979

Toss: England
Umpires: DJ Constant, BJ Meyer
Result: England won by an inns & 83 runs

England
*JM Brearley          c Reddy            b Kapil Dev             24
G Boycott             lbw                b Kapil Dev            155
DW Randall            c Reddy            b Kapil Dev             15
GA Gooch              c Reddy            b Kapil Dev             83
DI Gower              not out                                   200
IT Botham                                b Kapil Dev             33
G Miller              not out                                    63
Extras                b 4, lb 27, w 11, nb 18                    60
Total                 for 5 wickets                             633

Fall Of Wickets
1-66 (Brearley)               2-90 (Randall)                
3-235 (Gooch)                 4-426 (Boycott)               
5-468 (Botham)                

Bowling
Kapil Dev           48     15   146     5
Ghavri              38      5   129     0
Amarnath            13.2    2    47     0
Chandrasekhar       29      1   113     0
Venkataraghavan     31      4   107     0
Gaekwad              3      0    12     0
Chauhan              3      0    19     0

India
SM Gavaskar           run out                                    61
CPS Chauhan           c Gooch            b Botham                 4
DB Vengsarkar         c Gooch            b Edmonds               22
GR Viswanath          c Botham           b Edmonds               78
AD Gaekwad            c Botham           b Willis                25
M Amarnath                               b Willis                31
N Kapil Dev           lbw                b Botham                 1
KD Ghavri             c Brearley         b Willis                 6
+B Reddy                                 b Hendrick              21
*S Venkataraghavan    c Botham           b Hendrick              28
BS Chandrasekhar      not out                                     0
Extras                b 1, lb 4, w 3, nb 12                      20
Total                 all out                                   297

Fall Of Wickets
1-15 (Chauhan)                2-59 (Vengsarkar)             
3-129 (Gavaskar)              4-205 (Viswanath)             
5-209 (Gaekwad)               6-210 (Kapil Dev)             
7-229 (Ghavri)                8-251 (Amarnath)              
9-294 (Venkataraghavan)       10-297 (Reddy)                

Bowling
Willis              24      9    69     3
Botham              26      4    86     2
Hendrick            24.1    9    36     2
Edmonds             26     11    60     2
Boycott              5      1     8     0
Miller              11      3    18     0

India
SM Gavaskar           c Gooch            b Hendrick              68
CPS Chauhan           c Randall          b Willis                56
DB Vengsarkar         c Edmonds          b Hendrick               7
GR Viswanath          c Taylor           b Botham                51
AD Gaekwad            c Gooch            b Botham                15
M Amarnath            lbw                b Botham                10
N Kapil Dev           c Hendrick         b Botham                21
KD Ghavri             c Randall          b Hendrick               4
+B Reddy              lbw                b Hendrick               0
*S Venkataraghavan    lbw                b Botham                 0
BS Chandrasekhar      not out                                     0
Extras                b 7, lb 12, w 0, nb 2                      21
Total                 all out                                   253

Fall Of Wickets
1-124 (Gavaskar)              2-136 (Chauhan)               
3-136 (Vengsarkar)            4-182 (Gaekwad)               
5-227 (Viswanath)             6-240 (Amarnath)              
7-249 (Kapil Dev)             8-250 (Reddy)                 
9-251 (Venkataraghavan)       10-253 (Ghavri)               

Bowling
Willis              14      3    45     1
Botham              29      8    70     5
Hendrick            20.4    8    45     4
Edmonds             17      6    37     0
Miller               9      1    27     0
Gooch                6      3     8     0