English cricket team in India in 1979–80

English cricket team in India in 1979-80
Date 15 February 1980 - 19 February 1980
Location India India
Result England won the Only Test
Teams
 India  England
Captains
Gundappa Viswanath Mike Brearley
Most runs
Sunil Gavaskar (73)
Yashpal Sharma (48)
Kapil Dev (45)
Ian Botham (114)
Geoff Boycott (65)
Graham Gooch (57)
Most wickets
Karsan Ghavri (5)
Kapil Dev (3)
Dilip Doshi (1)
Ian Botham (13)
John Lever (4)
Graham Stevenson (2)

The England national cricket team visited India in February 1980 and played a single Test match against the India national cricket team.

Only Test match

15–19 February 1980
scorecard
v
242 (69.5 overs)
Sunil Gavaskar 49
Ian Botham 6/58 (22.5 overs)
296 (97.1 overs)
Ian Botham 114
Karsan Ghavri 5/52 (20.1 overs)
149 (52.1 overs)
Kapil Dev 45
Ian Botham 7/48 (26 overs)
98 (no wicket, 29.3 overs)
Graham Gooch 49
Sunil Gavaskar 0/4 (1 overs)
England won by 10 wickets
Wankhede Stadium, Bombay
Umpires: JD Ghosh, SN Hanumantha Rao
  • India won the toss and decided to bat

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