English cricket team in India in 1981–82

English cricket team in India in 1981–82
	England	India
Dates	11 November 1981 – 4 February 1982
Captains	Keith Fletcher	Sunil Gavaskar
Test series
Result	India won the 6-match series 1–0
Most runs	Graham Gooch (487)	Sunil Gavaskar (500)
Most wickets	Ian Botham (17)	Dilip Doshi (22) Kapil Dev (22)
Player of the series	Kapil Dev

The England cricket team toured India from 11 November 1981 to 4 February 1982 and played 6 Test matches.

India won the Test series 1–0.

Test matches

1st Test

27 Nov-1 Dec 1981 scorecard

India	v	England
179 (57 overs) Sunil Gavaskar 55 Graham Dilley 4/47 (13 overs)		166 (100.1 overs) Geoff Boycott 60 Dilip Doshi 5/39 (29.1 overs)
227 (77.3 overs) Kapil Dev 46 Ian Botham 5/61 (22.3 overs)		102 (26.2 overs) Ian Botham 29 Madan Lal 5/23 (12 overs)

India won by 138 runs Wankhede Stadium, Bombay Umpires: S Kishen, KB Ramaswami Player of the match: Kapil Dev

• India won the toss and decided to bat

2nd Test

9–14 December 1981 Scorecard

England	v	India
400 (158 overs) David Gower 82 Ravi Shastri 4/83 (43 overs)		428 (150 overs) Sunil Gavaskar 172 John Lever 5/100 (36 overs)
174/3 d. (69 overs) Geoff Boycott 50 Ravi Shastri 1/31 (20 overs)

Match drawn M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: MV Gothoskar, PR Punjabi Player of the match: Sunil Gavaskar

• England won the toss and decided to bat

3rd Test

23–28 December 1981 scorecard

England	v	India
476/9 d. (156.4 overs) Chris Tavaré 149 Madan Lal 5/85 (32 overs)		487 (160.1 overs) Gundappa Viswanath 107 Graham Gooch 2/12 (8.1 overs)
68/0 d. (19 overs) Geoff Boycott 34 Madan Lal 0/4 (3 overs)

Match drawn Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi Umpires: SN Hanumantha Rao, S Kishen Player of the match: Chris Tavaré

• England won the toss and decided to bat

4th Test

1–6 January 1982 scorecard

England	v	India
248 (108.2 overs) Keith Fletcher 69 Kapil Dev 6/91 (31 overs)		208 (100 overs) Dilip Vengsarkar 70 Derek Underwood 3/45 (29 overs)
265/5 d. (90 overs) David Gower 74 Dilip Doshi 2/63 (27 overs)		170/3 (83 overs) Sunil Gavaskar 83 John Emburey 2/62 (30 overs)

Match drawn Eden Gardens, Calcutta Umpires: MV Gothoskar, S Kishen Player of the match: Keith Fletcher

• England won the toss and decided to bat

5th Test

13–18 January 1982 scorecard

India	v	England
481/4 d. (152.1 overs) Gundappa Viswanath 222 Bob Willis 2/79 (28.1 overs)		328 (155.5 overs) Graham Gooch 127 Dilip Doshi 4/69 (57 overs)
160/3 d. (50 overs) Pranab Roy 60 Bob Willis 1/15 (7 overs)

Match drawn MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Madras Umpires: B Ganguli, SN Hanumantha Rao Player of the match: Gundappa Viswanath

• England won the toss and decided to field

6th Test

30 Jan-4 Feb 1982 scorecard

England	v	India
378/9 d. (115.2 overs) Ian Botham 142 Dilip Doshi 4/81 (34.2 overs)		377/7 d. (122 overs) Kapil Dev 116 Bob Willis 3/75 (23 overs)

Match drawn Modi Stadium, Kanpur Umpires: DN Dotiwalla, MV Gothoskar

• England won the toss and decided to bat

One Day Internationals (ODIs)

India won the Wills Series 2–1.

1st ODI

25 November 1981 Scorecard

India   156/7 (46 overs)	v	England 160/5 (43.5 overs)
DB Vengsarkar 46 (85) DL Underwood 2/18 (10 overs)		MW Gatting 47* (68) RMH Binny 3/35 (7.5 overs)

England won by 5 wickets Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad Umpires: MV Gothoskar and SN Hanumantha Rao Player of the match: MW Gatting (ENG)

• England won the toss and elected to field.
• The match was reduced from 50 overs to 46 overs per side.
• G Cook and CJ Richards (both ENG), and Randhir Singh, RJ Shastri and K Srikkanth (all IND) made their ODI debuts.
• This was the first one-day international played in India.

2nd ODI

20 December 1981 Scorecard

England   161/7 (36 overs)	v	India 164/4 (35.3 overs)
MW Gatting 71* (58) Kapil Dev 2/26 (8 overs)		DB Vengsarkar 88* (107) GA Gooch 2/25 (7 overs)

India won by 6 wickets Gandhi Stadium, Jalandhar Umpires: JD Ghosh and S Kishen Player of the match: DB Vengsarkar (IND)

• India won the toss and elected to field.
• The match was reduced before play started from 50 overs to 36 overs per side.
• SV Nayak (IND) made his ODI debut.

3rd ODI

27 January 1982 Scorecard

England   230/6 (46 overs)	v	India 231/5 (42 overs)
KWR Fletcher 69 (52) SM Patil 2/53 (10 overs)		SM Gavaskar 71 (87) DL Underwood 3/48 (10 overs)

India won by 5 wickets Barabati Stadium, Cuttack Umpires: PR Punjabi and KB Ramaswami Player of the match: SM Gavaskar (IND)

• India won the toss and elected to field.
• The match was reduced from 50 overs to 46 overs per side.
• J Arun Lal and AO Malhotra (both IND) made their ODI debuts.

External links

• Cricarchive
• Tour page ESPNcricinfo
• Record ESPNcricinfo