English cricket team in India in 1979–80

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English cricket team in India in 1979–80
Date	15–19 February 1980
Location	India
Result	England won the only Test
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The England national cricket team visited India in February 1980 and played a single Test match against the India national cricket team. It was played to celebrate the golden jubilee of the formation of Board of Control for Cricket in India.^[1]

Only Test match[edit | edit source]

15–19 February 1980
Scorecard

India	v	England
242 (69.5 overs) Sunil Gavaskar 49 (68) Ian Botham 6/58 (22.5 overs)		296 (97.1 overs) Ian Botham 114 (144) Karsan Ghavri 5/52 (20.1 overs)
149 (52.1 overs) Kapil Dev 45* (82) Ian Botham 7/48 (26 overs)		98/0 (29.3 overs) Graham Gooch 49* (85) Sunil Gavaskar 0/4 (1 overs)

India won the toss and elected to bat.
Graham Stevenson (Eng) made his Test debut.
16 February was a rest day.

References[edit | edit source]

↑ Rutnagur, Dicky. "Golden Jubilee Test, India v England 1979-80". Wisden. ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 14 July 2017.

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