Pakistani cricket team in India in 1986–87

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Pakistan cricket team in India in 1986-87
Date23 January – 26 March 1987
Location Flag of India.svg India
Result Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan won 5-match test series 1-0 Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan won 6-match ODI series 5-1
Teams
Flag of India.svg  India Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan
Captains
Kapil Dev Imran Khan
Most runs
Dilip Vengsarkar (404)
Mohammad Azharuddin (315)
K Srikkanth (311)
Rameez Raja (381)
Imran Khan (324)
Javed Miandad (302)
Most wickets
Maninder Singh (20)
Kapil Dev (11)
Ravi Shastri (9)
Tauseef Ahmed (16)
Wasim Akram (13)
Iqbal Qasim (12)

The Pakistan national cricket team toured India in the 1986-87 season to play five Test matches and six One Day International matches. They also played three first-class matches.

Contents

Pakistan won the Test series 1-0 after they were victorious by 16 runs in the final match of the series, the previous four games having been drawn.

Pakistan were captained by Imran Khan who was voted "Man of the Series". It was last test series of Indian opener Sunil Gavaskar. [1]

Test matches

1st Test

3–8 February 1987
Scorecard
v
Flag of India.svg  India
487/9d (163 overs)
Imran Khan 135* (230)
Maninder Singh 5/135 (59 overs)
527/9d (170 overs)
Krishnamachari Srikkanth 123 (149)
Tauseef Ahmed 3/189 (67 overs)
182/3 (77 overs)
Rizwan-uz-Zaman 54*
Maninder Singh 2/47 (26 overs)
Match drawn
MA Chidambaram Stadium, Madras
Umpires: Rajan Mehra (Ind) and V. K. Ramaswamy (Ind)
Player of the match: Imran Khan (Pak) and Krishnamachari Srikkanth (Ind)

2nd Test

11–16 February 1987
scorecard
India  Flag of India.svg
v
403 (118 overs)
Mohammad Azharuddin 141
Wasim Akram 5/96 (31 overs)
229 (108.1 overs)
Rameez Raja 69
Roger Binny 6/56 (25.1 overs)
181/3 d. (52.1 overs)
Arun Lal 70
Imran Khan 2/28 (7.1 overs)
179/5 (87 overs)
Javed Miandad 63
Roger Binny 2/45 (21 overs)
Match drawn
Eden Gardens, Calcutta
Umpires: RB Gupta, PD Reporter
Player of the match: Roger Binny
  • Pakistan won the toss and decided to field

3rd Test

21–26 February 1987
scorecard
India  Flag of India.svg
v
465/8 d. (163.3 overs)
Ravi Shastri 125
Imran Khan 2/93 (35 overs)
341 (128.5 overs)
Rameez Raja 114
Gopal Sharma 4/88 (32.5 overs)
114/2 (38 overs)
K Srikkanth 51
Iqbal Qasim 1/34 (13 overs)
Match drawn
Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
Umpires: VK Ramaswamy, PD Reporter
Player of the match: Ravi Shastri
  • India won the toss and decided to bat

4th Test

4–9 March 1987
scorecard
v
Flag of India.svg  India
395 (187.3 overs)
Ijaz Faqih 105
Shivlal Yadav 4/109 (48.3 overs)
323 (111.5 overs)
Dilip Vengsarkar 109
Wasim Akram 4/60 (21.5 overs)
135/2 (99 overs)
Rizwan-uz-Zaman 8
Maninder Singh 1/13 (23 overs)
Match drawn
Gujarat Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad
Umpires: RB Gupta, SR Ramchandra Rao
Player of the match: Ijaz Faqih
  • Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat

5th Test

13–17 March 1987
scorecard
v
Flag of India.svg  India
116 (49.2 overs)
Saleem Malik 33
Maninder Singh 7/27 (18.2 overs)
145 (64 overs)
Dilip Vengsarkar 50
Iqbal Qasim 5/48 (30 overs)
249 (94.5 overs)
Rameez Raja 47
Ravi Shastri 4/69 (24 overs)
204 (93.5 overs)
Sunil Gavaskar 96
Iqbal Qasim 4/73 (37 overs)
Pakistan won by 16 runs
M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Umpires: RB Gupta, VK Ramaswamy
Player of the match: Sunil Gavaskar
  • Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat
  • Pakistan won Test Series 1-0
  • Saleem Yousuf & Tauseef Ahmed had a second innings partnership of 51 runs for the 9th wicket

One Day Internationals (ODIs)

Pakistan won the Charminar Challenge Cup 5–1.

1st ODI

27 January 1987
Scorecard
India  Flag of India.svg
196/7 (45 overs)
v
Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan
200/7 (44 overs)
RJ Shastri 50 (68)
Imran Khan 2/41 (10 overs)
Mudassar Nazar 43 (80)
RJ Shastri 3/37 (10 overs)
Pakistan won by 3 wickets
Nehru Stadium, Indore
Umpires: S Banerjee and RB Gupta
Player of the match: Abdul Qadir (PAK)
  • Pakistan won the toss and elected to field.
  • The match was reduced from 50 overs to 45 overs.
  • Ravi Shastri captained India in the absence of Kapil Dev

2nd ODI

18 February 1987
Scorecard
India  Flag of India.svg
238/6 (40 overs)
v
Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan
241/8 (39.3 overs)
K Srikkanth 123 (103)
Wasim Akram 3/49 (10 overs)
Saleem Malik 72* (36)
RJ Shastri 4/38 (10 overs)
Pakistan won by 2 wickets
Eden Gardens, Calcutta
Umpires: DN Dotiwalla and RV Ramani
Player of the match: Saleem Malik (PAK)
  • Pakistan won the toss and elected to field.
  • The match was reduced from 50 overs to 40 overs.
  • Younis Ahmed (PAK) made his ODI debut.

3rd ODI

20 March 1987
Scorecard
India  Flag of India.svg
212/6 (44 overs)
v
Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan
212/7 (44 overs)
RJ Shastri 69* (74)
Imran Khan 1/27 (9 overs)
Saleem Malik 84 (89)
G Sharma 3/29 (6 overs)
Match tied (India won by losing fewer wickets)
Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad
Umpires: SK Ghosh and V Vikramraju
Player of the match: Not awarded
  • Pakistan won the toss and elected to field.
  • The match was reduced from 50 overs to 44 overs.

4th ODI

22 March 1987
Scorecard
India  Flag of India.svg
120/9 (42 overs)
v
Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan
121/4 (37.2 overs)
R Lamba 27 (62)
Saleem Jaffar 3/25 (9 overs)
Rameez Raja 33 (74)
Kapil Dev 2/32 (7 overs)
Pakistan won by 6 wickets
Nehru Stadium, Pune
Umpires: RR Kadam and SR Ramchandra Rao
Player of the match: Saleem Jaffar (PAK)
  • India won the toss and elected to bat.
  • The match was reduced before play started to 47 overs per side.
  • The match was later reduced to 42 overs per side.

5th ODI

24 March 1987
Scorecard
Pakistan  Flag of Pakistan.svg
286/6 (44 overs)
v
Flag of India.svg  India
245/9 (44 overs)
Javed Miandad 78 (88)
Maninder Singh 2/43 (10 overs)
SM Gavaskar 70 (96)
Wasim Akram 3/26 (10 overs)
Pakistan won by 41 runs
Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur
Umpires: SB Kulkarni and RS Rathore
Player of the match: Wasim Akram (PAK)
  • India won the toss and elected to field.
  • The match was reduced from 50 overs to 44 overs.
  • Wasim Akram scored 25 runs off a Chetan Sharma over (2,6,6,6,4,1) [3]

6th ODI

26 March 1987
Scorecard
India  Flag of India.svg
265/3 (44 overs)
v
Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan
266/5 (43.2 overs)
M Prabhakar 106 (121)
Tauseef Ahmed 1/31 (5 overs)
Javed Miandad 78* (71)
Kapil Dev 2/42 (9.2 overs)
Pakistan won by 5 wickets
Keenan Stadium, Jamshedpur
Umpires: S Banerjee and V Vikramraju
Player of the match: M Prabhakar (IND)
  • Pakistan won the toss and elected to field.
  • The match was reduced from 50 overs to 44 overs.

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