English cricket team in India and Sri Lanka in 1984–85

English cricket team in India in 1984-85

	India	England
Dates	13 November 1984 – 7 February 1985
Captains	Sunil Gavaskar	David Gower
Test series
Result	England won the 5-match series 2–1
Most runs	Mohammad Azharuddin (439)	Mike Gatting (575)
Most wickets	L Sivaramakrishnan (23)	Neil Foster (14)
One Day International series
Result	England won the 5-match series 4–1
Most runs	Ravi Shastri (223)	Mike Gatting (209)
Most wickets	Ravi Shastri (6)	Vic Marks (6)

The England national cricket team toured India in 1984-85, playing a five-match Test series and five match ODI series versus India. Before arriving in India, the English team played two matches in Sri Lanka in November 1984.

The tour was nearly called off after the Deputy High Commissioner of Western India, Percy Norris was shot dead on 28 November in Mumbai, the day after hosting a reception for the England team.^[1]

Test Series

1st Test at Wankhede Stadium, Bombay – India won by 8 wickets
2nd Test at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi – England won by 8 wickets
3rd Test at Eden Gardens, Calcutta – match drawn
4th Test at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Madras – England won by 9 wickets
5th Test at Modi Stadium, Kanpur – match drawn

1st Test

28 Nov-3 Dec 1984
scorecard

England	v	India
195 (96.2 overs) Phil Edmonds 48 L Sivaramakrishnan 6/64 (31.2 overs)		465/8 d. (137 overs) Ravi Shastri 142 Pat Pocock 3/133 (46 overs)
317 (135 overs) Mike Gatting 136 L Sivaramakrishnan 6/117 (46 overs)		51/2 (15.1 overs) Mohinder Amarnath 22 Norman Cowans 1/18 (5 overs)

India won by 8 wickets
Wankhede Stadium, Bombay
Umpires: B Ganguli, S Kishen

England won the toss and decided to bat

2nd Test

12–17 December 1984
scorecard

India	v	England
307 (125.2 overs) Kapil Dev 60 Richard Ellison 4/66 (26 overs)		418 (169.1 overs) Tim Robinson 160 L Sivaramakrishnan 6/99 (49.1 overs)
235 (103.4 overs) Sunil Gavaskar 65 Phil Edmonds 4/60 (44 overs)		127/2 (23.4 overs) Alan Lamb 37 L Sivaramakrishnan 1/41 (8 overs)

England won by 8 wickets
Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Umpires: DN Dotiwalla, PD Reporter

India won the toss and decided to bat

3rd Test

Eden Gardens, Calcutta
scorecard

India	v	England
437/7 d. (200 overs) Ravi Shastri 111 Phil Edmonds 3/72 (47 overs)		276 (100.3 overs) Alan Lamb 67 Chetan Sharma 4/38 (12.3 overs)
29/1 (18 overs) Manoj Prabhakar 21 Alan Lamb 1/6 (1 overs)

Match drawn
Eden Gardens, Calcutta
Umpires: B Ganguli, V Vikramraju

India won the toss and decided to bat

4th Test

13–18 January 1985
scorecard

India	v	England
272 (67.5 overs) Mohinder Amarnath 78 Neil Foster 6/104 (23 overs)		652/7 d. (175 overs) Mike Gatting 207 Mohinder Amarnath 2/36 (12 overs)
412 (122.5 overs) Mohammad Azharuddin 105 Neil Foster 5/59 (28 overs)		35/1 (8 overs) Tim Robinson 21 L Sivaramakrishnan 1/12 (4 overs)

England won by 9 wickets
MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Madras
Umpires: MY Gupte, VK Ramaswamy

India won the toss and decided to bat

5th Test

31 Jan-5 Feb 1985
scorecard

India	v	England
553/8 d. (165 overs) Dilip Vengsarkar 137 Neil Foster 3/123 (36 overs)		417 (188.5 overs) Tim Robinson 96 Kapil Dev 4/81 (36.5 overs)
97/1 d. (13 overs) Mohammad Azharuddin 54 Mike Gatting 0/7 (1 overs)		91/0 (36 overs) Mike Gatting 41 Mohammad Azharuddin 0/8 (1 overs)

Match drawn
Modi Stadium, Kanpur
Umpires: VK Ramaswamy, Piloo Reporter

India won the toss and decided to bat

References

Playfair Cricket Annual 1985
Wisden Cricketers Almanack 1985

↑ Radha, Sailesh S, "A Tribute to...Five Days in White Flannels: A Trivia Book on Test Cricket", AuthorHouse Publishing, 2009.

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