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| Venue | Lancaster Park, Christchurch on 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th March 1981 (5-day match) | 
| Balls per over | 6 | 
| Toss | India won the toss and decided to bat | 
| Result | Match drawn | 
| Umpires | JBR Hastie, DA Kinsella | 
| Close of play day 1 | India (1) 168/2 (Vengsarkar 32*, Viswanath 0*) | 
| Close of play day 2 | India (1) 174/2 (Vengsarkar 36*, Viswanath 2*) | 
| Close of play day 3 | No play | 
| Close of play day 4 | No play | 
| Close of play day 5 | New Zealand (1) 93/1 (Edgar 30*, Reid 37*) | 
| Player of the Match | JF Reid | 
| India first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *SM Gavaskar | c Smith b Hadlee | 53 | 122 | 176 | 7 | - | |
| CPS Chauhan | c Smith b Hadlee | 78 | 216 | 266 | 9 | - | |
| DB Vengsarkar | b Snedden | 61 | 152 | 212 | 8 | - | |
| GR Viswanath | b Hadlee | 7 | 56 | 78 | - | - | |
| SM Patil | c Reid b Hadlee | 4 | 9 | 10 | 1 | - | |
| Yashpal Sharma | c Howarth b Hadlee | 0 | 8 | 9 | - | - | |
| +SMH Kirmani | retired hurt | 9 | 29 | 35 | - | - | |
| Kapil Dev | c and b Snedden | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| KD Ghavri | c Reid b Coney | 17 | 90 | 104 | 1 | - | |
| RJ Shastri | not out | 12 | 81 | 100 | - | - | |
| DR Doshi | b Coney | 0 | 4 | 2 | - | - | |
| Extras | (4 b, 5 lb, 5 nb) | 14 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 505 minutes, 127 overs) | 255 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-114 (Gavaskar), 2-168 (Chauhan), 3-200 (Viswanath), 4-210 (Patil), 5-210 (Yashpal Sharma), 6-224 (Vengsarkar), 7-224 (Kapil Dev), 8-255 (Ghavri), 9-255 (Doshi, 127 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hadlee | 33 | 12 | 47 | 5 | - | - | |
| Troup | 26 | 6 | 60 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cairns | 33 | 16 | 57 | 0 | - | - | |
| Snedden | 23 | 8 | 63 | 2 | - | - | |
| Coney | 9 | 4 | 12 | 2 | - | - | |
| Howarth | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | - | - | |
| New Zealand first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JG Wright | c Vengsarkar b Ghavri | 18 | 18 | 25 | 2 | - | |
| BA Edgar | lbw b Shastri | 49 | 231 | 247 | 2 | - | |
| JF Reid | not out | 123 | 429 | 446 | 11 | - | |
| *GP Howarth | c sub (TE Srinivasan) b Doshi | 26 | 104 | 113 | 1 | - | |
| JV Coney | c Chauhan b Patil | 15 | 31 | 36 | 1 | - | |
| GN Edwards | b Shastri | 23 | 39 | 44 | 4 | - | |
| +IDS Smith | not out | 11 | 27 | 27 | 2 | - | |
| RJ Hadlee | did not bat | ||||||
| BL Cairns | did not bat | ||||||
| MC Snedden | did not bat | ||||||
| GB Troup | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (6 b, 8 lb, 7 nb) | 21 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 472 minutes, 145 overs) | 286 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-27 (Wright), 2-152 (Edgar), 3-201 (Howarth), 4-235 (Coney), 5-265 (Edwards) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Kapil Dev | 22 | 2 | 60 | 0 | - | - | |
| Ghavri | 10 | 4 | 33 | 1 | - | - | |
| Patil | 12 | 4 | 14 | 1 | - | - | |
| Doshi | 49 | 23 | 67 | 1 | - | - | |
| Shastri | 42 | 21 | 65 | 2 | - | - | |
| Chauhan | 5 | 1 | 12 | 0 | - | - | |
| Gavaskar | 3 | 1 | 11 | 0 | - | - | |
| Vengsarkar | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | - | - | |
Notes
--> The match was scheduled for five days but extended to six.
--> KD Ghavri made his last appearance in Test matches
--> CPS Chauhan (1) passed 2000 runs in Test matches when he reached 37
--> JF Reid (1) passed his previous highest score of 46 in Test matches
--> JF Reid (1) made his first century in Test matches
--> JF Reid (1) 50 in 158 minutes
--> JF Reid (1) 100 in 350 balls, 356 minutes
--> JV Coney (1) passed 3500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 3
--> KD Ghavri made his debut in New Zealand in First-Class matches
--> KD Ghavri made his debut in New Zealand in Test matches
--> Yashpal Sharma made his debut in New Zealand in Test matches
--> DR Doshi made his debut in New Zealand in First-Class matches
--> DR Doshi made his debut in New Zealand in Test matches
--> MC Snedden reached 50 wickets in First-Class matches when he dismissed DB Vengsarkar, his 1st wicket in the India first innings
--> RJ Hadlee reached 150 wickets in Test matches when he dismissed SM Gavaskar, his 1st wicket in the India first innings
--> SMH Kirmani retired hurt in the India first innings having scored 9 (team score 226/7)
Match extended by 1 day (the scheduled rest day became a playing day which was in turn washed out)
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