World cup 1975 India's first match against England

Prudential World Cup - 1st match, Group A

England v India

England won by 202 runs

	England innings (60 overs maximum)		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	JA Jameson	c Venkataraghavan b Amarnath	21	42	2	0	50.00
	DL Amiss	b Madan Lal	137	147	18	0	93.19
	KWR Fletcher	b Abid Ali	68	107	4	1	63.55
	AW Greig	lbw b Abid Ali	4	8	0	0	50.00
	MH Denness*	not out	37	31	2	1	119.35
	CM Old	not out	51	30	4	2	170.00
	Extras	(lb 12, w 2, nb 2)	16
	Total	(4 wickets; 60 overs)	334	(5.56 runs per over)

Did not bat B Wood, APE Knott†, JA Snow, P Lever, GG Arnold

Fall of wickets1-54 (Jameson), 2-230 (Fletcher), 3-237 (Greig), 4-245 (Amiss)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	S Madan Lal	12	1	64	1	5.33
	M Amarnath	12	2	60	1	5.00
	S Abid Ali	12	0	58	2	4.83
	KD Ghavri	11	1	83	0	7.54
	S Venkataraghavan	12	0	41	0	3.41
	ED Solkar	1	0	12	0	12.00

	India innings (target: 335 runs from 60 overs)		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	SM Gavaskar	not out	36	174	1	0	20.68
	ED Solkar	c Lever b Arnold	8	34	0	0	23.52
	AD Gaekwad	c †Knott b Lever	22	46	2	0	47.82
	GR Viswanath	c Fletcher b Old	37	59	5	0	62.71
	BP Patel	not out	16	57	0	0	28.07
	Extras	(lb 3, w 1, nb 9)	13
	Total	(3 wickets; 60 overs)	132	(2.20 runs per over)

Did not bat M Amarnath, FM Engineer†, S Abid Ali, S Madan Lal, S Venkataraghavan*, KD Ghavri

Fall of wickets1-21 (Solkar), 2-50 (Gaekwad), 3-108 (Viswanath)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	JA Snow	12	2	24	0	2.00
	GG Arnold	10	2	20	1	2.00
	CM Old	12	4	26	1	2.16
	AW Greig	9	1	26	0	2.88
	B Wood	5	2	4	0	0.80
	P Lever	10	0	16	1	1.60
	JA Jameson	2	1	3	0	1.50

Match details

Toss England, who chose to bat Points England 4, India 0

ODI debuts M Amarnath, AD Gaekwad and KD Ghavri (India) Player of the match DL Amiss (England)

Umpires DJ Constant and JG Langridge