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England v India @ Headingley, Leeds
16, 17, 18, 20, 21 August 1979 (five-day match)
Toss: England (bat)
Umpires: HD Bird, BJ Meyer
Match Result: Match Drawn
1st Innings
England
| Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| 1. Geoff Boycott | c Gundappa Viswanath b Kapil Dev | 31 | 0 | 86 | 4 | - |
| *2. Mike Brearley | c Gundappa Viswanath b Mohinder Amarnath | 15 | 70 | 102 | 1 | - |
| 3. Graham Gooch | c Dilip Vengsarkar b Kapil Dev | 4 | 10 | 9 | - | - |
| 4. David Gower | lbw b Kapil Dev | 0 | 6 | 9 | - | - |
| 5. Derek Randall | b Karsan Ghavri | 11 | 57 | 68 | - | - |
| 6. Ian Botham | c Karsan Ghavri b Venkat | 137 | 152 | 201 | 10 | 5 |
| 7. Geoff Miller | c Bharath Reddy b Mohinder Amarnath | 27 | 53 | 79 | 3 | - |
| 8. Phil Edmonds | run out ( > > ) | 18 | 49 | 54 | 2 | - |
| +9. Bob Taylor | c Chetan Chauhan b Bishan Bedi | 1 | 15 | 10 | - | - |
| 10. Bob Willis | not out | 4 | 11 | 13 | - | - |
| 11. Mike Hendrick | c sub b Bishan Bedi | 0 | 8 | 5 | - | - |
| FOW | 1-53 (Geoff Boycott), 2-57 (Graham Gooch), 3-57 (Mike Brearley), 4-58 (David Gower), 5-89 (Derek Randall), 6-176 (Geoff Miller), 7-264 (Phil Edmonds), 8-264 (Ian Botham), 9-266 (Bob Taylor), 270 (Mike Hendrick). |
| Extras | 4b, 6lb, 4w, 8nb, 0pen) 22 |
| Total | (for 10 wickets, 80.5 ovs) 270 |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Extras |
| Kapil Dev | 27 | 7 | 84 | 3 | (0w,0nb) |
| Karsan Ghavri | 18 | 4 | 60 | 1 | (0w,0nb) |
| Mohinder Amarnath | 20 | 7 | 53 | 2 | (0w,0nb) |
| Venkat | 7 | 2 | 25 | 1 | (0w,0nb) |
| Bishan Bedi | 8.5 | 2 | 26 | 2 | (0w,0nb) |
2nd Innings
India
| Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| 1. Sunny Gavaskar | b Phil Edmonds | 78 | 0 | 240 | 9 | - |
| 2. Chetan Chauhan | c Ian Botham b Bob Willis | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| 3. Mohinder Amarnath | c Bob Taylor b Bob Willis | 0 | 18 | 14 | - | - |
| 4. Gundappa Viswanath | c Mike Brearley b Mike Hendrick | 1 | 18 | 26 | - | - |
| 5. Yashpal Sharma | c Ian Botham b Geoff Miller | 40 | 0 | 133 | 2 | - |
| 6. Dilip Vengsarkar | not out | 65 | 183 | 178 | 6 | - |
| 7. Kapil Dev | c Graham Gooch b Geoff Miller | 3 | 0 | 14 | - | - |
| 8. Karsan Ghavri | not out | 20 | 97 | 99 | 1 | - |
| *9. Venkat | ||||||
| +10. Bharath Reddy | ||||||
| 11. Bishan Bedi |
| FOW | 1-1 (Chetan Chauhan), 2-9 (Mohinder Amarnath), 3-12 (Gundappa Viswanath), 4-106 (Yashpal Sharma), 5-156 (Sunny Gavaskar), 6-160 (Kapil Dev). |
| Extras | 11b, 4lb, 1w, 0nb, 0pen) 16 |
| Total | (for 6 wickets, 110 ovs) 223 |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Extras |
| Bob Willis | 18 | 5 | 42 | 2 | (0w,0nb) |
| Mike Hendrick | 14 | 6 | 13 | 1 | (0w,0nb) |
| Ian Botham | 13 | 3 | 39 | 0 | (0w,0nb) |
| Phil Edmonds | 28 | 8 | 59 | 1 | (0w,0nb) |
| Geoff Miller | 32 | 13 | 52 | 2 | (0w,0nb) |
| Graham Gooch | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | (0w,0nb) |
| Geoff Boycott | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | (0w,0nb) |
Squads
England:
Geoff Boycott, Mike Brearley, Graham Gooch, David Gower, Derek Randall, Ian Botham, Geoff Miller, Phil Edmonds, Bob Taylor, Bob Willis, Mike Hendrick