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India v New Zealand @ Melbourne Cricket Ground
10 January 1981
Toss: New Zealand (field)
Umpires: RC Bailhache, RV Whitehead
Match Result: New Zealand won by 10 wickets
1st Innings
India
| Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *1. Sunny Gavaskar | lbw b Ewen Chatfield | 8 | 31 | 36 | - | - |
| 2. Tirumalai Srinivasan | b Jeremy Coney | 4 | 23 | 30 | - | - |
| 3. Dilip Vengsarkar | c John Parker b Jeremy Coney | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | - |
| 4. Gundappa Viswanath | run out | 33 | 52 | 62 | 3 | - |
| 5. Sandeep Patil | c Jeremy Coney b Martin Snedden | 8 | 22 | 31 | 1 | - |
| 6. Yashpal Sharma | b Lance Cairns | 5 | 17 | 17 | - | - |
| 7. Kapil Dev | run out | 21 | 19 | 32 | - | - |
| +8. Syed Kirmani | run out | 7 | 8 | 12 | - | - |
| 9. Karsan Ghavri | c Geoff Howarth b Martin Snedden | 6 | 11 | 18 | - | - |
| 10. Roger Binny | not out | 5 | 14 | 16 | - | - |
| 11. Dilip Doshi | not out | 5 | 5 | 8 | - | - |
| FOW | 1-13 (Tirumalai Srinivasan), 2-13 (Dilip Vengsarkar), 3-13 (Sunny Gavaskar), 4-46 (Sandeep Patil), 5-60 (Yashpal Sharma), 6-66 (Gundappa Viswanath), 7-82 (Syed Kirmani), 8-98 (Karsan Ghavri), 9-100 (Kapil Dev). |
| Extras | 0b, 10lb, 0w, 0nb, 0pen) 10 |
| Total | (for 9 wickets, 34 ovs) 112 |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Extras |
| Sir Richard Hadlee | 8 | 3 | 15 | 0 | (0w,0nb) |
| Ewen Chatfield | 8 | 2 | 14 | 1 | (0w,0nb) |
| Jeremy Coney | 6 | 3 | 18 | 2 | (0w,0nb) |
| Lance Cairns | 7 | 0 | 39 | 1 | (0w,0nb) |
| Martin Snedden | 5 | 0 | 16 | 2 | (0w,0nb) |
2nd Innings
New Zealand
| Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| 1. John Wright | not out | 39 | 87 | 119 | 1 | - |
| 2. Bruce Edgar | not out | 65 | 89 | 119 | 4 | - |
| 3. John Parker | ||||||
| *4. Geoff Howarth | ||||||
| 5. Jeremy Coney | ||||||
| +6. Warren Lees | ||||||
| 7. Mark Burgess | ||||||
| 8. Sir Richard Hadlee | ||||||
| 9. Lance Cairns | ||||||
| 10. Martin Snedden | ||||||
| 11. Ewen Chatfield |
| FOW | . |
| Extras | 0b, 8lb, 0w, 1nb, 0pen) 9 |
| Total | (for 0 wickets, 29 ovs) 113 |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Extras |
| Kapil Dev | 8 | 0 | 29 | 0 | (0w,0nb) |
| Karsan Ghavri | 7 | 2 | 15 | 0 | (0w,0nb) |
| Roger Binny | 4 | 0 | 23 | 0 | (0w,0nb) |
| Sandeep Patil | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | (0w,0nb) |
| Dilip Doshi | 8 | 0 | 27 | 0 | (0w,0nb) |
Squads
India:
Sunny Gavaskar, Tirumalai Srinivasan, Dilip Vengsarkar, Gundappa Viswanath, Sandeep Patil, Yashpal Sharma, Kapil Dev, Syed Kirmani, Karsan Ghavri, Roger Binny, Dilip Doshi