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Test no. 1660

New Zealand in India Test Series - 1st Test
India v New Zealand

2003/04 season

Played at Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad, on 8,9,10,11,12 October 2003 (5-day match)

Result Match drawn


India 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	A Chopra	c & b Vettori	42	158	116	4	0	36.20
	V Sehwag	lbw b Tuffey	29	47	32	3	1	90.62
	R Dravid	c Hart b Oram	222	578	387	28	1	57.36
	SR Tendulkar	c Astle b Styris	8	54	38	1	0	21.05
	VVS Laxman	c Wiseman b Vettori	64	195	147	8	0	43.53
	SC Ganguly	not out	100	260	211	8	3	47.39
	PA Patel	not out	29	43	24	5	0	120.83
	Extras	(b 2, lb 3, nb 1)	6

	Total	(5 wickets dec; 159 overs; 670 mins)	500	(3.14 runs per over)

Did not bat Harbhajan Singh, A Kumble, Z Khan, L Balaji

Fall of wickets1-35 (Sehwag, 10.4 ov), 2-107 (Chopra, 37.6 ov), 3-134 (Tendulkar, 50.4 ov), 4-264 (Laxman, 97.5 ov), 5-446 (Dravid, 148.6 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
DR Tuffey	31	6	103	1	3.32
JDP Oram	33	8	95	1	2.87	(1nb)
SB Styris	26	5	83	1	3.19
DL Vettori	44	9	128	2	2.90
CD McMillan	4	1	6	0	1.50
PJ Wiseman	21	0	80	0	3.80


New Zealand 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	MH Richardson	b Khan	6	32	20	0	0	30.00
	L Vincent	c Patel b Khan	7	42	31	1	0	22.58
	SP Fleming	b Khan	1	17	3	0	0	33.33
	SB Styris	c Chopra b Harbhajan Singh	34	140	98	5	0	34.69
	NJ Astle	st Patel b Harbhajan Singh	103	283	207	14	0	49.75
	CD McMillan	c Chopra b Sehwag	54	108	92	8	0	58.69
	JDP Oram	c Dravid b Kumble	5	53	50	0	0	10.00
	RG Hart	lbw b Balaji	15	70	58	1	0	25.86
	DL Vettori	c Dravid b Kumble	60	188	129	10	0	46.51
	PJ Wiseman	c Laxman b Khan	27	110	79	4	0	34.17
	DR Tuffey	not out	2	18	24	0	0	8.33
	Extras	(b 4, lb 18, nb 4)	26

	Total	(all out; 131.1 overs)	340	(2.59 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-11 (Richardson, 6.5 ov), 2-16 (Vincent, 8.4 ov), 3-17 (Fleming, 10.1 ov), 4-108 (Styris, 41.2 ov), 5-199 (McMillan, 68.2 ov), 6-223 (Astle, 81.1 ov), 7-227 (Oram, 84.4 ov), 8-265 (Hart, 99.5 ov), 9-332 (Wiseman, 126.3 ov), 10-340 (Vettori, 131.1 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
Z Khan	23	3	68	4	2.95	(3nb)
L Balaji	26	7	84	1	3.23	(1nb)
A Kumble	35.1	11	58	2	1.64
Harbhajan Singh	36	8	86	2	2.38
V Sehwag	8	2	17	1	2.12
SR Tendulkar	3	2	5	0	1.66


India 2nd innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	A Chopra	c Styris b Vettori	31	109	72	2	0	43.05
	V Sehwag	c Hart b Oram	17	36	29	1	0	58.62
	R Dravid	c Vincent b Wiseman	73	124	86	6	0	84.88
	SR Tendulkar	c Vettori b Wiseman	7	19	15	0	0	46.66
	VVS Laxman	c Vettori b Wiseman	44	40	35	3	1	125.71
	SC Ganguly	b Wiseman	25	25	23	1	2	108.69
	PA Patel	not out	5	16	9	0	0	55.55
	Extras	(b 4, lb 3)	7

	Total	(6 wickets dec; 44.5 overs)	209	(4.66 runs per over)

Did not bat Harbhajan Singh, A Kumble, Z Khan, L Balaji

Fall of wickets1-20 (Sehwag, 9.1 ov), 2-97 (Chopra, 25.3 ov), 3-118 (Tendulkar, 30.3 ov), 4-166 (Dravid, 38.4 ov), 5-177 (Laxman, 40.4 ov), 6-209 (Ganguly, 44.5 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
DR Tuffey	9	2	18	0	2.00
JDP Oram	8	0	39	1	4.87
DL Vettori	16	0	81	1	5.06
PJ Wiseman	11.5	0	64	4	5.40


New Zealand 2nd innings (target: 370 runs)			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	MH Richardson	c Chopra b Kumble	21	63	42	2	0	50.00
	L Vincent	b Kumble	67	232	186	9	0	36.02
	DR Tuffey	b Kumble	8	55	32	0	0	25.00
	SP Fleming	c Laxman b Harbhajan Singh	8	30	31	1	0	25.80
	SB Styris	lbw b Kumble	0	4	3	0	0	0.00
	CD McMillan	not out	83	259	190	8	0	43.68
	JDP Oram	c Dravid b Harbhajan Singh	7	35	30	1	0	23.33
	NJ Astle	not out	51	146	135	8	0	37.77
	Extras	(b 4, lb 11, nb 12)	27

	Total	(6 wickets; 107 overs)	272	(2.54 runs per over)

Did not bat DL Vettori,

RG Hart, PJ Wiseman

Fall of wickets1-44 (Richardson, 15.5 ov), 2-68 (Tuffey, 31.1 ov), 3-85 (Fleming, 38.5 ov), 4-86 (Styris, 39.4 ov), 5-150 (Vincent, 59.5 ov), 6-169 (Oram, 68.5 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
Z Khan	10	1	36	0	3.60	(4nb)
L Balaji	11	4	21	0	1.90	(1nb)
Harbhajan Singh	38	9	65	2	1.71
A Kumble	39	12	95	4	2.43	(1nb)
SR Tendulkar	7	0	40	0	5.71	(1nb)
V Sehwag	2	2	0	0	0.00

Toss India, who chose to bat first
Series 2-match series level 0-0

Test debuts L Balaji and A Chopra (India)
Player of the match R Dravid (India)

Umpires RE Koertzen (South Africa) and DR Shepherd (England)
TV umpire K Hariharan
Match referee RS Madugalle (Sri Lanka)

Close of play
8 Oct day 1 - India 1st innings 249/3 (R Dravid 110*, VVS Laxman 56*, 90 ov)
9 Oct day 2 - New Zealand 1st innings 41/3 (SB Styris 10*, NJ Astle 13*, 19 ov)
10 Oct day 3 - New Zealand 1st innings 282/8 (DL Vettori 28*, PJ Wiseman 8*, 109 ov)
11 Oct day 4 - New Zealand 2nd innings 48/1 (L Vincent 21*, DR Tuffey 0*, 18 ov)
12 Oct day 5 - New Zealand 2nd innings 272/6 (107 ov) - end of match

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