Pakistani cricket team in India in 1979–80

Pakistan cricket team in India in 1979–80

Date

11 November 1979 – 3 February 1980

Location

Result

India won the 6-Test series 2-0

Teams
India	Pakistan
Captains
Sunil Gavaskar Viswanath (6th Test)	Asif Iqbal
Most runs
Sunil Gavaskar (529) Dilip Vengsarkar (316) Yashpal Sharma (314)	Wasim Raja (450) Javed Miandad (421) Asif Iqbal (267)
Most wickets
Kapil Dev (32) Dilip Doshi (18) Karsan Ghavri (15)	Sikander Bakht (25) Imran Khan (12) Iqbal Qasim (9)

The Pakistan national cricket team toured India in 1979–80 season.^[1] The two teams played six Tests. India won the test series 2–0 with 4 test being drawn.

Test matches

1st Test

21–26 November 1979
scorecard

Pakistan	v	India
431/9 d. (149.3 overs) Mudassar Nazar 126 Dilip Doshi 3/102 (52.3 overs)		416 (164.4 overs) Sunil Gavaskar 88 Imran Khan 4/53 (28.4 overs)
108/2 (42 overs) Zaheer Abbas 31 shivlal Yadav 1/20 (11 overs)

Match drawn
M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Umpires: MV Gothoskar, S Kishen

Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat

2nd Test

4–9 December 1979
Scorecard

Pakistan	v	India
273 (91.5 overs) Wasim Raja 97 Kapil Dev 5/58 (23.5 overs)		126 (41.5 overs) Sunil Gavaskar 31 Sikander Bakht 8/69 (21 overs)
242 (80.5 overs) Wasim Raja 61 Kapil Dev 4/63 (22.5 overs)		364/6 (131 overs) DB Vengsarkar 146 Sikander Bakht 3/121 (38 overs)

Match drawn
Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Umpires: MI Ghouse, PR Punjabi

Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat

3rd Test

16–20 December 1979
scorecard

India	v	Pakistan
334 (114.1 overs) Kapil Dev 69 Sikander Bakht 5/55 (22.1 overs)		173 (68.3 overs) Abdul Qadir 29 Shivlal Yadav 3/11 (8 overs)
160 (69.5 overs) Sunil Gavaskar 48 Iqbal Qasim 6/40 (28.5 overs)		190 (51.4 overs) Javed Miandad 64 Karsan Ghavri 4/63 (18 overs)

India won by 131 runs
Wankhede Stadium, Bombay
Umpires: SN Hanumantha Rao, KB Ramaswami

India won the toss and decided to bat

4th Test

25–30 December 1979
scorecard

India	v	Pakistan
162 (68.4 overs) Karsan Ghavri 45 Ehteshamuddin 5/47 (26.4 overs)		249 (89.5 overs) Wasim Raja 94 Kapil Dev 6/63 (28 overs)
193/2 (77.2 overs) Sunil Gavaskar 81 Wasim Raja 1/25 (9 overs)

Match drawn
Modi Stadium, Kanpur
Umpires: MI Ghouse, S Kishen

India won the toss and decided to bat

5th Test

15–20 January 1980
scorecard

Pakistan	v	India
272 (73.4 overs) Majid Khan 56 Kapil Dev 4/90 (19 overs)		430 (134.2 overs) Sunil Gavaskar 166 Imran Khan 5/114 (38.2 overs)
233 (66.4 overs) Wasim Raja 57 Kapil Dev 7/56 (23.4 overs)		78/0 (18 overs) Chetan Chauhan 46 Mudassar Nazar 0/2 (2 overs)

India won by 10 wickets
Madras Cricket Club Ground, Chepauk, Madras
Umpires: MV Gothoskar, S Kishen

Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat

6th Test

29 Jan – 3 Feb 1980
scorecard

India	v	Pakistan
331 (109 overs) Sandeep Patil 62 Imran Khan 4/67 (33 overs)		272/4 d. (99.5 overs) Taslim Arif 90 Kapil Dev 2/65 (26 overs)
205 (70.5 overs) Karsan Ghavri 37 Imran Khan 5/63 (23.5 overs)		179/6 (63 overs) Taslim Arif 46 Dilip Doshi 2/46 (20 overs)

Match drawn
Eden Gardens, Calcutta
Umpires: PR Punjabi, KB Ramaswami

India won the toss and decided to bat
India won the test series 2–0

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