The England national cricket team toured India in 1984–85, playing a five-match Test series and five match ODI series versus India. Shortly after they arrived in India, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated; with cricket in India then out of the question for a few weeks, the English team went to Sri Lanka to play a couple of warm-up matches.
| English cricket team in India in 1984-85 | |||
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| 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 | |||
| Results | 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 tour was nearly called off after the Deputy High Commissioner of Western India, Percy Norris was shot dead on 27 November in Mumbai, the day after hosting a reception for the England team.[1][2]
Test Series
edit1st Test
edit28 November–3 December 1984
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- England won the toss and decided to bat.
- Chris Cowdrey and Tim Robinson (both Eng) made their debut in Tests.
- Laxman Sivaramakrishnan (Ind) claimed his first wicket in Tests.[3]
- 30 November was a rest day.
- Mike Gatting (Eng) scored his first century in Tests.[4]
- This was India's first win after 31 Tests.[3]
2nd Test
edit12–17 December 1984
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- India won the toss and decided to bat.
- Manoj Prabhakar (Ind) made his debut in Tests.
- 14 December was a rest day.
- This was England's first win after 13 Tests,[5] their then longest winless run in Tests.[6]
3rd Test
edit31 December 1984–5 January 1985
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- India won the toss and decided to bat.
- Mohammad Azharuddin (Ind) scored a century on Test debut.
- Only 20 minutes of play was possible on day 2 due to smog and rain.
- 2 January was a rest day.
- Azharuddin and Ravi Shastri, in the first innings, broke the record for highest partnership for India for the fifth wicket in Tests (214 runs),[7] before it was broken by Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman in 2001.[8]
4th Test
edit13–18 January 1985
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- India won the toss and decided to bat.
- 16 January was a rest day.
- With Graeme Fowler's involvement in partnerships of 178 and 241 runs for the first and second wickets in England's first innings, both records for the country, he became the first player since Len Hutton in 1938 to be involved in such an instance in the same innings of a Test.[9]
- This was also the first instance where two England players scored double-centuries in one innings of a Test.[9]
5th Test
edit31 January–5 February 1985
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- India won the toss and decided to bat.
- Gopal Sharma (Ind) made his debut in Tests.
- Mohammad Azharuddin (Ind) became the first player to score centuries in his first three Tests.
- India's first innings total of 553 was their highest against England in Tests.[10]
ODI series
editEngland won the Charminar Challenge Cup 4–1.
1st ODI
edit 5 December 1984
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- England won the toss and elected to field.
- The match was reduced to 45 overs per side.
- RS Ghai and KS More (both IND), and RM Ellison and RT Robinson (both ENG) made their ODI debuts.
2nd ODI
edit 27 December 1984
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- England won the toss and elected to field.
- The match was reduced to 49 overs per side.
- When play was halted England needed to have scored 237 runs to win.
3rd ODI
edit 20 January 1985
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- England won the toss and elected to field.
- The match was reduced to 46 overs per side.
- M Azharuddin and S Viswanath (both IND) made their ODI debuts.
4th ODI
edit 23 January 1985
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- India won the toss and elected to field.
- JP Agnew, CS Cowdrey and MD Moxon (all ENG), and LS Rajput (IND) made their ODI debuts.
5th ODI
editReferences
edit- Playfair Cricket Annual 1985
- Wisden Cricketers Almanack 1986
- ^ Radha, Sailesh S, "A Tribute to...Five Days in White Flannels: A Trivia Book on Test Cricket", AuthorHouse Publishing, 2009.
- ^ "The show must go on". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
- ^ a b "INDIA v ENGLAND 1984-85". Wisden. ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
- ^ "The definition of being positive has changed". ESPNcricinfo. 17 August 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
- ^ Steen, Rob (7 March 2017). "Surprise, surprise". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
- ^ "INDIA v ENGLAND 1984-85". Wisden. ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
- ^ "INDIA v ENGLAND 1984-85". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
- ^ Kotian, Harish. "15 years ago this day..." Rediff.com. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
- ^ a b "India v England 1984-85". Wisden. ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
- ^ "INDIA v ENGLAND 1984-85". Wisden. ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
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