f32441 t845	India v West Indies
	West Indies in India and Sri Lanka 1978/79 (6th Test)
Venue	Modi Stadium, Kanpur on 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th February 1979 (6-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	India won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Match drawn
Umpires	PR Panjabi, B Satyaji Rao
Close of play day 1	India (1) 249/3 (Viswanath 94*, Gaekwad 0*)
Close of play day 2	India (1) 498/4 (Gaekwad 101*, Amarnath 48*)
Close of play day 3	West Indies (1) 137/2 (Bacchus 72*, Jumadeen 2*)
Close of play day 4	West Indies (1) 373/4 (Bacchus 204*, Murray 35*)
Close of play day 5	No play

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India first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
*SM Gavaskar	c Murray b Marshall	40			5	2
CPS Chauhan	st Murray b Parry	79		300	9	-
DB Vengsarkar	lbw b Phillip	15
GR Viswanath	c Phillip b Parry	179		420	14	-
AD Gaekwad	b Jumadeen	102		340	10	-
M Amarnath	not out	101		265	10	-
Kapil Dev	c Greenidge b Jumadeen	62			7	2
+SMH Kirmani	c Phillip b Jumadeen	2
KD Ghavri	not out	18
S Venkataraghavan	did not bat
BS Chandrasekhar	did not bat
Extras	(9 b, 12 lb, 25 nb)	46
Total	(7 wickets, declared, 189.4 overs)	644
Fall of wickets:
1-51 (Gavaskar), 2-77 (Vengsarkar), 3-221 (Chauhan), 4-393 (Viswanath), 5-502 (Gaekwad), 6-604 (Kapil Dev), 7-609 (Kirmani)

West Indies bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Phillip	27	4	89	1	-	-
Marshall	34	3	123	1	-	-
Holder	43	6	118	0	-	-
Gomes	1	0	4	0	-	-
Jumadeen	45.4	4	137	3	-	-
Parry	39	6	127	2	-	-

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West Indies first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
AE Greenidge	lbw b Ghavri	20
SFAF Bacchus	hit wkt b Venkataraghavan	250		510	33	-
HA Gomes	c Vengsarkar b Chandrasekhar	37
RR Jumadeen	b Kapil Dev	56		144		-
*AI Kallicharran	c Kirmani b Ghavri	4
+DA Murray	c sub (Yajurvindra Singh) b Ghavri	44		215		-
S Shivnarine	c Vengsarkar b Amarnath	2
DR Parry	c Vengsarkar b Ghavri	4
N Phillip	not out	10
MD Marshall	not out	1
VA Holder	did not bat
Extras	(9 b, 9 lb, 6 nb)	24
Total	(8 wickets, 148.1 overs)	452
Fall of wickets:
1-37 (Greenidge), 2-134 (Gomes), 3-263 (Jumadeen), 4-268 (Kallicharran), 5-428 (Bacchus), 6-431 (Shivnarine), 7-440 (Murray), 8-443 (Parry)

India bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Kapil Dev	20	0	98	1	-	-
Ghavri	31	4	118	4	-	-
Chandrasekhar	41	10	117	1	-	-
Venkataraghavan	46.1	16	60	1	-	-
Amarnath	10	1	35	1	-	-

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Notes
--> AE Greenidge made his last appearance in Test matches
--> RR Jumadeen made his last appearance in Test matches
--> S Shivnarine made his last appearance in Test matches
--> N Phillip made his last appearance in Test matches
--> VA Holder made his last appearance in Test matches
--> GR Viswanath (1) 50 in 89 balls
--> GR Viswanath (1) 100 in 142 balls, 229 minutes with 14 fours
--> GR Viswanath (1) passed his previous highest score of 145 in Test matches
--> AD Gaekwad (1) 50 in 152 balls
--> AD Gaekwad (1) passed his previous highest score of 87 in Test matches
--> AD Gaekwad (1) made his first century in Test matches
--> AD Gaekwad (1) 100 in 247 balls, 340 minutes with 10 fours
--> AD Gaekwad (1) passed 1000 runs in Test matches when he reached 67
--> AD Gaekwad (1) passed 4500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 24
--> M Amarnath (1) 100 in 223 balls, 288 minutes with 5 fours
--> M Amarnath (1) passed his previous highest score of 100 in Test matches
--> Kapil Dev (1) 50 in 62 balls
--> KD Ghavri (1) passed 500 runs in Test matches when he reached 16
--> SFAF Bacchus (1) 50 in 48 balls, 77 minutes
--> SFAF Bacchus (1) passed his previous highest score of 96 in Test matches
--> SFAF Bacchus (1) made his first century in Test matches
--> SFAF Bacchus (1) 100 in 170 balls
--> SFAF Bacchus (1) passed his previous highest score of 110 in First-Class matches
--> SFAF Bacchus (1) 200 in 315 balls, 440 minutes
--> SFAF Bacchus (1) passed 500 runs in Test matches when he reached 236
--> SFAF Bacchus (1) passed 1500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 56
--> RR Jumadeen (1) passed his previous highest score of 11 in Test matches
--> RR Jumadeen (1) 50 in 130 minutes
--> RR Jumadeen (1) passed his previous highest score of 52 in First-Class matches
--> KD Ghavri reached 50 wickets in First-Class matches for the season when he dismissed AI Kallicharran, his 2nd wicket in the West Indies first innings

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