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| Venue | Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th December 1991 (5-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | India won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Australia won by 8 wickets |
| Umpires | LJ King, TA Prue |
| Referee | MJK Smith |
| Scorers | KV O'Neill (India), MP Ringham (Australia) |
| Close of play day 1 | India (1) 243/9 (More 50*, Srinath 12*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Australia (1) 215/5 (Marsh 79*, Healy 4*) |
| Close of play day 3 | India (2) 92/5 (Vengsarkar 14*, Tendulkar 8*) |
| Player of the Match | BA Reid |
| India first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RJ Shastri | c Healy b Reid | 23 | 91 | 120 | 1 | - | |
| K Srikkanth | c Boon b Reid | 5 | 12 | 23 | - | - | |
| M Prabhakar | b Reid | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | - | |
| SV Manjrekar | c Waugh b Reid | 25 | 75 | 99 | 1 | - | |
| DB Vengsarkar | c Reid b Hughes | 23 | 41 | 62 | 1 | - | |
| *M Azharuddin | c Jones b McDermott | 22 | 29 | 48 | 1 | - | |
| SR Tendulkar | c Waugh b Reid | 15 | 23 | 33 | - | - | |
| Kapil Dev | c Hughes b McDermott | 19 | 50 | 70 | 2 | - | |
| +KS More | not out | 67 | 134 | 189 | 5 | - | |
| SLV Raju | c Border b Hughes | 31 | 90 | 112 | 2 | - | |
| J Srinath | c Border b Reid | 14 | 22 | 32 | 1 | - | |
| Extras | (1 b, 8 lb, 4 nb, 6 w) | 19 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 399 minutes, 93.2 overs) | 263 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-11 (Srikkanth), 2-11 (Prabhakar), 3-61 (Shastri), 4-64 (Manjrekar), 5-109 (Azharuddin), 6-109 (Vengsarkar), 7-128 (Tendulkar), 8-151 (Kapil Dev), 9-228 (Raju), 10-263 (Srinath, 93.2 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| McDermott | 30 | 6 | 100 | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Reid | 26.2 | 7 | 66 | 6 | 1 | 6 | |
| Hughes | 23 | 6 | 52 | 2 | 2 | - | |
| Waugh | 8 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 3 | - | |
| PL Taylor | 6 | 0 | 20 | 0 | - | - | |
| Australia first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| GR Marsh | c Vengsarkar b Kapil Dev | 86 | 267 | 351 | 5 | - | |
| MA Taylor | c Tendulkar b Prabhakar | 13 | 45 | 55 | 1 | - | |
| DC Boon | c Srikkanth b Kapil Dev | 11 | 40 | 62 | - | - | |
| *AR Border | b Kapil Dev | 0 | 5 | 3 | - | - | |
| DM Jones | c More b Prabhakar | 59 | 197 | 144 | 6 | - | |
| ME Waugh | c More b Shastri | 34 | 46 | 55 | 2 | 1 | |
| +IA Healy | lbw b Kapil Dev | 60 | 116 | 136 | 4 | - | |
| PL Taylor | c More b Prabhakar | 11 | 23 | 40 | - | - | |
| MG Hughes | c Tendulkar b Kapil Dev | 36 | 53 | 84 | 3 | 1 | |
| CJ McDermott | not out | 16 | 29 | 41 | 2 | - | |
| BA Reid | c Kapil Dev b Prabhakar | 3 | 15 | 24 | - | - | |
| Extras | (9 lb, 11 nb) | 20 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 502 minutes, 122 overs) | 349 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-24 (MA Taylor), 2-55 (Boon), 3-55 (Border), 4-163 (Jones), 5-211 (Waugh), 6-229 (Marsh), 7-262 (PL Taylor), 8-326 (Healy), 9-337 (Hughes), 10-349 (Reid, 122 ov) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Kapil Dev | 35 | 9 | 97 | 5 | - | 1 | |
| Prabhakar | 34 | 7 | 84 | 4 | - | 2 | |
| Srinath | 25 | 3 | 71 | 0 | - | 9 | |
| Raju | 17 | 3 | 52 | 0 | - | - | |
| Tendulkar | 4 | 1 | 16 | 0 | - | 2 | |
| Shastri | 7 | 1 | 20 | 1 | - | - | |
| India second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RJ Shastri | c Healy b Reid | 22 | 80 | 95 | 2 | - | |
| K Srikkanth | lbw b Reid | 6 | 31 | 41 | - | - | |
| SV Manjrekar | c MA Taylor b McDermott | 30 | 74 | 121 | 1 | - | |
| DB Vengsarkar | c sub (MR Whitney) b McDermott | 54 | 180 | 287 | 1 | - | |
| *M Azharuddin | c MA Taylor b Reid | 2 | 4 | 4 | - | - | |
| SLV Raju | c and b McDermott | 1 | 3 | 4 | - | - | |
| SR Tendulkar | c Border b PL Taylor | 40 | 107 | 122 | 5 | - | |
| Kapil Dev | c Healy b Reid | 12 | 7 | 12 | - | 2 | |
| M Prabhakar | c Healy b Reid | 17 | 18 | 13 | 2 | - | |
| +KS More | lbw b Reid | 12 | 35 | 51 | 1 | - | |
| J Srinath | not out | 0 | 0 | 6 | - | - | |
| Extras | (1 b, 6 lb, 10 nb) | 17 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 383 minutes, 88 overs) | 213 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-13 (Srikkanth), 2-48 (Shastri), 3-75 (Manjrekar), 4-78 (Azharuddin), 5-79 (Raju), 6-141 (Tendulkar), 7-155 (Kapil Dev), 8-173 (Prabhakar), 9-213 (More), 10-213 (Vengsarkar, 88 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| McDermott | 29 | 8 | 63 | 3 | - | 2 | |
| Reid | 29 | 9 | 60 | 6 | - | 7 | |
| Hughes | 19 | 6 | 43 | 0 | - | 1 | |
| PL Taylor | 11 | 3 | 40 | 1 | - | - | |
| Australia second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| MA Taylor | st More b Raju | 60 | 121 | 159 | 3 | - | |
| GR Marsh | lbw b Prabhakar | 10 | 25 | 38 | - | - | |
| DC Boon | not out | 44 | 97 | 128 | 3 | - | |
| *AR Border | not out | 5 | 5 | 7 | - | - | |
| DM Jones | did not bat | ||||||
| ME Waugh | did not bat | ||||||
| +IA Healy | did not bat | ||||||
| PL Taylor | did not bat | ||||||
| MG Hughes | did not bat | ||||||
| CJ McDermott | did not bat | ||||||
| BA Reid | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (3 lb, 6 nb) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets, 167 minutes, 40 overs) | 128 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-16 (Marsh), 2-122 (MA Taylor) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Kapil Dev | 12 | 1 | 30 | 0 | - | 1 | |
| Prabhakar | 11 | 0 | 38 | 1 | - | - | |
| Srinath | 8 | 0 | 28 | 0 | - | 5 | |
| Raju | 6 | 0 | 17 | 1 | - | - | |
| Shastri | 3 | 1 | 12 | 0 | - | - | |
Notes
--> The match was scheduled for five days but completed in four.
--> PL Taylor made his last appearance in Test matches
--> M Azharuddin (1) passed 3000 runs in Test matches when he reached 2
--> KS More (1) 50 in 116 balls, 169 minutes with 2 fours
--> KS More (1) passed 1000 runs in Test matches when he reached 19
--> SLV Raju (1) equalled his previous highest score of 31 in Test matches
--> GR Marsh (1) 50 in 161 balls, 216 minutes with 3 fours
--> DM Jones (1) 50 in 85 balls, 114 minutes with 5 fours
--> IA Healy (1) 50 in 83 balls, 109 minutes with 4 fours
--> DB Vengsarkar (2) 50 in 165 balls, 263 minutes with 7 fours
--> DB Vengsarkar (2) passed 17500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 52
--> MA Taylor (2) 50 in 114 balls, 151 minutes with 3 fours
--> DC Boon (2) passed 13000 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 29
--> BA Reid reached 100 wickets in Test matches when he dismissed J Srinath, his 6th wicket in the India first innings
--> CJ McDermott reached 450 wickets in First-Class matches when he dismissed M Azharuddin, his 1st wicket in the India first innings
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