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Sat, 21 Feb - Wed, 25 Feb 1981 - 00:00 – 1st Test • Basin Reserve, Wellington
New Zealand won by 62 runs
New Zealand
401/10 (20.00) & 100/10 (49)
India
468/5 (20.00) & 190/10 (75.3)
Summary
Scorecard
Match Stats
Performance
Best Average
Lance Cairns
9.000000
Ravi Shastri
10.500000
Gary Troup
15.400000
Sandeep Patil
17.333333
Kapil Dev
20.857142
Most Wickets
Kapil Dev
7
Lance Cairns
7
Ravi Shastri
6
Gary Troup
5
Sir Richard Hadlee
4
Best Bowling Fig
Lance Cairns
5
Kapil Dev
4
Sir Richard Hadlee
4
Ravi Shastri
3
Gary Troup
3
Most Runs Conceed
Kapil Dev
146
Sir Richard Hadlee
127
Martin Snedden
95
Roger Binny
93
Gary Troup
77
Best Economy
Sandeep Patil
1.575757
Lance Cairns
1.640625
Ravi Shastri
2.032258
Jeremy Coney
2.250000
Gary Troup
2.566666
Most 50s
Sandeep Patil
2
Highest Score
Geoff Howarth
137
Sandeep Patil
64
John Reid
46
Dilip Vengsarkar
39
Bruce Edgar
39
Best Strike Rate
Sandeep Patil
0.605714
Geoff Howarth
0.545454
Dilip Vengsarkar
0.503875
Ian Smith
0.466666
Sir Richard Hadlee
0.457627
Best Averages
Geoff Howarth
144.000000
Sandeep Patil
53.000000
Roger Binny
37.000000
Ian Smith
35.000000
Bruce Edgar
33.500000
Most Runs
Geoff Howarth
144
Sandeep Patil
106
Bruce Edgar
67
Dilip Vengsarkar
65
John Reid
53
Most Fours
John Reid
5
Kirti Azad
5
Roger Binny
4
Ravi Shastri
3
Chetan Chauhan
3
Sunil Gavaskar
3
Sir Richard Hadlee
3
Most Runs Conceed
Lance Cairns
63
Ravi Shastri
63
Yograj Singh
63
Sandeep Patil
52
Most Wickets
Roger Binny
3
Sandeep Patil
3
Martin Snedden
3
Yograj Singh
1
Best Bowling Fig
Martin Snedden
2
Roger Binny
2
Sandeep Patil
2
Yograj Singh
1
Most Not Outs
Roger Binny
2
Best Economy
Martin Snedden
2.567567
Kapil Dev
2.703703
Best Strike Rate
Ravi Shastri
31
Lance Cairns
32.9143
Gary Troup
36
Most Not Outs
Ravi Shastri
2
Geoff Howarth
2
Ian Smith
2
Best Average
Roger Binny
31.000000
Martin Snedden
31.666666
Best Strike Rate
Jock Edwards
0.453125
John Wright
0.434782
Most Runs
John Wright
40
Roger Binny
37
Most Ducks
Gundappa Viswanath
2
Kapil Dev
2
Lance Cairns
2
Best Strike Rate
Kapil Dev
46.2857
Sir Richard Hadlee
57.45
Sandeep Patil
66
Roger Binny
68
Best Averages
Dilip Vengsarkar
32.500000
John Reid
26.500000
Most 100s
Geoff Howarth
2
Worst Bowling Fig
Kapil Dev
112
Roger Binny
67
Sir Richard Hadlee
65
Yograj Singh
63
Martin Snedden
56
Ravi Shastri
54
Gary Troup
43
Highest Score
John Wright
32
Roger Binny
26
Sunil Gavaskar
23
Jock Edwards
23
Most sixes
Lance Cairns
1
Most Ducks
Gary Troup
2
Martin Snedden
2
Most Balls Faced
Geoff Howarth
264
John Reid
187
Sandeep Patil
175
Bruce Edgar
172
Dilip Vengsarkar
129
Kirti Azad
110
Sunil Gavaskar
107