Thu, 12 Jul - Mon, 16 Jul 1979 - 00:00 – 1st Test • Edgbaston, Birmingham
England won by an innings and 83 runs
EnglandEngland
633/10 (34.00)
IndiaIndia
452/8 (20.00) & 253/10 (95.4)
Stat #1 #2 #3 #4 #5
Most 50s 2 Chetan Chauhan 2 Gundappa Viswanath 2 Sunil Gavaskar 1 Graham Gooch 1 Geoff Miller
Best Average 13.5 Mike Hendrick 22.29 Sir Ian Botham
Most Runs Conceed 146 Kapil Dev 129 Karsan Ghavri 113 Bhagwath Chandrasekhar
Best Average 28.5 Bob Willis
Most Wickets 7 Sir Ian Botham 6 Mike Hendrick
Best Averages 64.5 Gundappa Viswanath 64.5 Sunil Gavaskar 30 Chetan Chauhan
Most Wickets 4 Bob Willis
Best Bowling Fig 5 Sir Ian Botham 4 Mike Hendrick
Highest Score 78 Gundappa Viswanath 68 Sunil Gavaskar 56 Chetan Chauhan
Best Bowling Fig 3 Bob Willis
Most Runs Conceed 156 Sir Ian Botham 114 Bob Willis
Most Runs 129 Gundappa Viswanath 129 Sunil Gavaskar 60 Chetan Chauhan
Most Runs Conceed 97 Phil Edmonds
Best Economy 1.33 Graham Gooch 1.6 Geoff Boycott
Best Bowling Fig 5 Kapil Dev
Most Not Outs 2 Bhagwath Chandrasekhar
Most Wickets 5 Kapil Dev
Best Economy 1.82 Mike Hendrick 2.25 Geoff Miller 2.26 Phil Edmonds
Most Runs Conceed 107 Srinivas Venkataraghavan
Most Fours 15 Gundappa Viswanath 13 Sunil Gavaskar
Best Economy 2.84 Sir Ian Botham
Best Strike Rate 0.85 Sir Ian Botham 0.76 Graham Gooch
Most Fours 9 Chetan Chauhan
Best Strike Rate 0.96 Kapil Dev 0.54 Srinivas Venkataraghavan 0.72 David Gower
Best Averages 155 Geoff Boycott 83 Graham Gooch 20.5 Mohinder Amarnath
Worst Bowling Fig 146 Kapil Dev 129 Karsan Ghavri
Best Averages 33 Sir Ian Botham
Highest Score 200 David Gower 155 Geoff Boycott
Best Average 29.2 Kapil Dev
Most Runs 41 Mohinder Amarnath
Most Ducks 2 Srinivas Venkataraghavan 2 Bharath Reddy
Best Strike Rate 57.6 Kapil Dev
Worst Bowling Fig 113 Bhagwath Chandrasekhar 107 Srinivas Venkataraghavan
Most sixes 2 Srinivas Venkataraghavan
Most Fours 7 Mohinder Amarnath
Highest Score 83 Graham Gooch
Most Runs 200 David Gower 155 Geoff Boycott
Most Fours 6 Anshuman Gaekwad
Most Balls Faced 300 Gundappa Viswanath 277 Sunil Gavaskar 178 Anshuman Gaekwad 150 Chetan Chauhan 116 Mohinder Amarnath
Most Runs 83 Graham Gooch
Best Bowling Fig 2 Phil Edmonds
Most Not Outs 1 Geoff Miller 1 David Gower
Most Wickets 2 Phil Edmonds
Most Fours 24 David Gower 13 Graham Gooch 12 Geoff Boycott
Best Economy 3 Bob Willis
Best Strike Rate 47.14 Sir Ian Botham 57 Bob Willis
Best Strike Rate 0.54 Geoff Miller 0.48 Derek Randall
Best Averages 24 Mike Brearley
Most 100s 1 David Gower 1 Geoff Boycott
Worst Bowling Fig 86 Sir Ian Botham 69 Bob Willis 60 Phil Edmonds
Best Average 48.5 Phil Edmonds
Best Strike Rate 129 Phil Edmonds 44.5 Mike Hendrick
Most Runs 63 Geoff Miller
Highest Score 63 Geoff Miller
Most sixes 1 Graham Gooch 1 Sir Ian Botham
Gundappa Viswanath vs Sir Ian Botham
Dismissals 9
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 73.7
✔ Batsman advantage
Sunil Gavaskar vs Sir Ian Botham
Dismissals 8
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 131.6
✔ Batsman advantage
Dilip Vengsarkar vs Phil Edmonds
Dismissals 8
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 106.3
✔ Batsman advantage
Kapil Dev vs Sir Ian Botham
Dismissals 7
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 25.4
Balanced matchup
Sunil Gavaskar vs Bob Willis
Dismissals 6
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 35.7
✔ Batsman advantage
Mohinder Amarnath vs Phil Edmonds
Dismissals 5
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 148.8
✔ Batsman advantage
Gundappa Viswanath vs Mike Hendrick
Dismissals 4
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 39.5
✔ Batsman advantage
Chetan Chauhan vs Bob Willis
Dismissals 4
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 104.8
✔ Batsman advantage
Dilip Vengsarkar vs Sir Ian Botham
Dismissals 4
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 77.3
✔ Batsman advantage
Dilip Vengsarkar vs Bob Willis
Dismissals 3
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 92.0
✔ Batsman advantage
Gundappa Viswanath vs Bob Willis
Dismissals 3
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 208.3
✔ Batsman advantage
Chetan Chauhan vs Sir Ian Botham
Dismissals 2
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 11.0
⚠ Bowler dominance
Bhagwath Chandrasekhar vs Bob Willis
Dismissals 2
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 4.0
⚠ Bowler dominance
Srinivas Venkataraghavan vs Mike Hendrick
Dismissals 2
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 26.0
Balanced matchup
Mohinder Amarnath vs Bob Willis
Dismissals 2
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 32.5
✔ Batsman advantage
Dilip Vengsarkar vs Mike Hendrick
Dismissals 2
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 18.0
Balanced matchup
Sunil Gavaskar vs Phil Edmonds
Dismissals 2
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 132.5
✔ Batsman advantage
Kapil Dev vs Phil Edmonds
Dismissals 2
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 54.0
✔ Batsman advantage
Bharath Reddy vs Mike Hendrick
Dismissals 2
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 29.0
Balanced matchup
Bharath Reddy vs Sir Ian Botham
Dismissals 2
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 18.0
Balanced matchup
Kapil Dev vs Bob Willis
Dismissals 2
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 59.5
✔ Batsman advantage
Anshuman Gaekwad vs Bob Willis
Dismissals 2
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 71.5
✔ Batsman advantage
Anshuman Gaekwad vs Phil Edmonds
Dismissals 2
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 12.0
⚠ Bowler dominance
Anshuman Gaekwad vs Sir Ian Botham
Dismissals 2
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 62.5
✔ Batsman advantage
Karsan Ghavri vs Bob Willis
Dismissals 2
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 45.0
✔ Batsman advantage
Karsan Ghavri vs Mike Hendrick
Dismissals 1
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 25.0
Balanced matchup
Karsan Ghavri vs Sir Ian Botham
Dismissals 1
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 14.0
⚠ Bowler dominance
Kapil Dev vs Mike Hendrick
Dismissals 1
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 37.0
✔ Batsman advantage
Gundappa Viswanath vs Phil Edmonds
Dismissals 1
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 181.0
✔ Batsman advantage
Mohinder Amarnath vs Sir Ian Botham
Dismissals 1
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 69.0
✔ Batsman advantage
Sunil Gavaskar vs Mike Hendrick
Dismissals 1
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 117.0
✔ Batsman advantage
Srinivas Venkataraghavan vs Sir Ian Botham
Dismissals 1
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 6.0
⚠ Bowler dominance
Srinivas Venkataraghavan vs Bob Willis
Dismissals 1
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 5.0
⚠ Bowler dominance
Chetan Chauhan vs Phil Edmonds
Dismissals 1
Avg Balls Before Dismissal 100.0
✔ Batsman advantage