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England v India, 1979, 2nd test
Lord's, 02/08/1979 - 07/08/1979

Toss: India
Umpires: HD Bird, KE Palmer
Result: Match Drawn

India
SM Gavaskar           c Taylor           b Gooch                 42
CPS Chauhan           c Randall          b Botham                 2
DB Vengsarkar         c Botham           b Hendrick               0
GR Viswanath          c Brearley         b Hendrick              21
AD Gaekwad            c Taylor           b Botham                13
Yashpal Sharma        c Taylor           b Botham                11
N Kapil Dev           c Miller           b Botham                 4
KD Ghavri             not out                                     3
+B Reddy              lbw                b Botham                 0
*S Venkataraghavan    run out                                     0
BS Bedi                                  b Lever                  0
Extras                b 0, lb 0, w 0, nb 0                        0
Total                 all out                                    96

Fall Of Wickets
1-12 (Chauhan)                2-23 (Vengsarkar)             
3-51 (Viswanath)              4-75 (Gavaskar)               
5-79 (Gaekwad)                6-89 (Kapil Dev)              
7-96 (Yashpal Sharma)         8-96 (Reddy)                  
9-96 (Venkataraghavan)        10-96 (Bedi)                  

Bowling
Lever                9.5    3    29     1
Botham              19      9    35     5
Hendrick            15      7    15     2
Edmonds              2      1     1     0
Gooch               10      5    16     1

England
*JM Brearley          c Reddy            b Kapil Dev             12
G Boycott             c Gavaskar         b Ghavri                32
GA Gooch                                 b Kapil Dev             10
DI Gower                                 b Ghavri                82
DW Randall            run out                                    57
IT Botham                                b Venkataraghavan       36
G Miller              st Reddy           b Bedi                  62
PH Edmonds            c Reddy            b Kapil Dev             20
+RW Taylor            c Vengsarkar       b Bedi                  64
JK Lever              not out                                     6
Extras                b 11, lb 21, w 2, nb 4                     38
Total                 for 9 wickets                             419

Fall Of Wickets
1-21 (Brearley)               2-60 (Boycott)                
3-71 (Gooch)                  4-185 (Gower)                 
5-226 (Randall)               6-253 (Botham)                
7-291 (Edmonds)               8-394 (Miller)                
9-419 (Taylor)                

Bowling
Kapil Dev           38     11    93     3
Ghavri              31      2   122     2
Bedi                38.5   13    87     2
Venkataraghavan     22      2    79     1

India
SM Gavaskar           c Brearley         b Botham                59
CPS Chauhan           c Randall          b Edmonds               31
DB Vengsarkar         c Boycott          b Edmonds              103
GR Viswanath          c Gower            b Lever                113
AD Gaekwad            not out                                     1
Yashpal Sharma        not out                                     5
Extras                b 2, lb 2, w 1, nb 1                        6
Total                 for 4 wickets                             318

Fall Of Wickets
1-79 (Chauhan)                2-99 (Gavaskar)               
3-309 (Vengsarkar)            4-312 (Viswanath)             

Bowling
Lever               24      7    69     1
Botham              35     13    80     1
Hendrick            25     12    56     0
Edmonds             45     18    62     2
Gooch                2      0     8     0
Miller              17      6    37     0