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Match 6 - India vs New Zealand at Leeds

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india vs NZ in 1979 WC

1979 World Cup, Match 6 - New Zealand beat India by 8 wickets. Bruce Edgar was awarded man of the match for his unbeaten 84.

1979 World Cup, Match 6 - 13th June 1979, New Zealand vs India at Headingley in Leeds, Scorecard

⇒ Toss: New Zealand won the toss and elected to field first
⇒ Umpires: WL Budd and AGT Whitehead
⇒ Match Result: New Zealand won by 8 wkts
⇒ Man of the Match: Bruce Edgar

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India Batting

⇒ Sunil Gavaskar c Lees b Hadlee 55
⇒ Anshuman Gaekwad b Hadlee 10
⇒ Dilip Vengsarkar c Lees b McKechnie 1
⇒ Gundappa Viswanath c Turner b Cairns 9
⇒ Brijesh Patel b Troup 38
⇒ Mohinder Amarnath b Troup 1
⇒ Kapil Dev c & b Cairns 25
⇒ Karsan Ghavri c Coney b McKechnie 20
⇒ Surender Khanna (WK) c Morrison b McKechnie 7
⇒ Venkataraghavan (C) c Lees b Cairns 1
⇒ Bishan Singh Bedi not out 1

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Extras : 14 (Wides: 5 No Balls: 1 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 8)

Total : 182 all out (Overs: 55.5)

Fall of Wickets : 1-27 (Gaekwad), 2-38 (Vengsarkar), 3-53 (Viswanath), 4-104 (Patel), 5-107 (Amarnath), 6-147 (Kapil Dev), 7-153 (Gavaskar), 8-180 (Khanna), 9-181 (Ghavri), 10-182 (Venkataraghavan)

New Zealand Bowling

⇒ Hadlee 10-2-20-2
⇒ Troup 10-2-36-2
⇒ Cairns 11.5-0-36-3
⇒ McKechnie 12-1-24-3
⇒ Coney 7-0-33-0
⇒ Morrison 5-0-19-0

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New Zealand Batting

⇒ John Wright c&b Amarnath 48
⇒ Bruce Edgar not out 84
⇒ Lance Cairns run out 2
⇒ Glenn Turner not out 43
⇒ Did not Bat - Jeremy Coney, Mark Burgess (C), John Morrison, Brian McKechnie, Warren, Lees (WK), Richard Hadlee, Gary Troup

Extras : 6 (Wides: 0 No Balls: 3 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 3)

Total : 183/2 (Overs: 57.0)

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Fall of Wickets : 1-100 (Wright), 2-103 (Cairns)

India Bowling

⇒ Amarnath 12-1-39-1
⇒ Bedi 12-1-32-0
⇒ Venkataraghavan 12-0-34-0
⇒ Ghavri 10-1-34-0
⇒ Kapil Dev 11-3-38-0

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