- Test no. 741 | 1974 season
- Played at Edgbaston, Birmingham
- 4,5,6,8 July 1974 (5-day match)
| India 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| SM Gavaskar | c †Knott b Arnold | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| SS Naik | b Arnold | 4 | 28 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 21.05 | |
| AL Wadekar* | c †Knott b Hendrick | 36 | 72 | 62 | 3 | 0 | 58.06 | |
| GR Viswanath | b Hendrick | 28 | 68 | 55 | 1 | 0 | 50.90 | |
| AV Mankad | c †Knott b Arnold | 14 | 73 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| FM Engineer† | not out | 64 | 137 | 111 | 6 | 0 | 57.65 | |
| ED Solkar | lbw b Old | 3 | 21 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 21.42 | |
| S Abid Ali | run out | 6 | 29 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 24.00 | |
| S Venkataraghavan | b Underwood | 0 | 13 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| EAS Prasanna | c Greig b Hendrick | 0 | 15 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| BS Bedi | c Old b Hendrick | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (b 1, lb 1, nb 8) | 10 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 59.2 overs) | 165 | (2.78 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets 1-0 (Gavaskar), 2-17 (Naik), 3-62 (Wadekar), 4-81 (Viswanath), 5-115 (Mankad), 6-129 (Solkar), 7-153 (Abid Ali), 8-156 (Venkataraghavan), 9-165 (Prasanna), 10-165 (Bedi) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| GG Arnold | 14 | 3 | 43 | 3 | 3.07 | |||
| CM Old | 13 | 0 | 43 | 1 | 3.30 | |||
| M Hendrick | 14.2 | 1 | 28 | 4 | 1.95 | |||
| AW Greig | 3 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 3.66 | |||
| DL Underwood | 15 | 3 | 30 | 1 | 2.00 |
| England 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| DL Amiss | c Mankad b Prasanna | 79 | 165 | 180 | 6 | 0 | 43.88 | |
| D Lloyd | not out | 214 | 448 | 396 | 17 | 0 | 54.04 | |
| MH Denness* | c & b Bedi | 100 | 213 | 189 | 10 | 0 | 52.91 | |
| KWR Fletcher | not out | 51 | 68 | 80 | 5 | 0 | 63.75 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 5, w 1, nb 5) | 15 | ||||||
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| Total | (2 wickets dec; 140 overs) | 459 | (3.27 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat JH Edrich, AW Greig, APE Knott†, CM Old, GG Arnold, DL Underwood, M Hendrick |
| Fall of wickets 1-157 (Amiss), 2-368 (Denness) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| S Abid Ali | 18 | 2 | 63 | 0 | 3.50 | |||
| ED Solkar | 18 | 5 | 52 | 0 | 2.88 | |||
| BS Bedi | 45 | 4 | 152 | 1 | 3.37 | |||
| S Venkataraghavan | 23 | 1 | 71 | 0 | 3.08 | |||
| EAS Prasanna | 35 | 4 | 101 | 1 | 2.88 | |||
| SM Gavaskar | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5.00 |
| India 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| SM Gavaskar | c †Knott b Old | 4 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| SS Naik | lbw b Greig | 77 | 207 | 165 | 9 | 0 | 46.66 | |
| S Abid Ali | b Arnold | 3 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| AL Wadekar* | lbw b Old | 5 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 55.55 | |
| GR Viswanath | c Greig b Hendrick | 25 | 58 | 51 | 2 | 0 | 49.01 | |
| AV Mankad | hit wicket b Old | 43 | 97 | 83 | 4 | 0 | 51.80 | |
| FM Engineer† | lbw b Hendrick | 33 | 70 | 46 | 6 | 0 | 71.73 | |
| ED Solkar | c Edrich b Arnold | 8 | 19 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 44.44 | |
| S Venkataraghavan | c Lloyd b Greig | 5 | 16 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| EAS Prasanna | b Hendrick | 4 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 80.00 | |
| BS Bedi | not out | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 3, nb 5) | 8 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 67.4 overs) | 216 | (3.19 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets 1-6 (Gavaskar), 2-12 (Abid Ali), 3-21 (Wadekar), 4-59 (Viswanath), 5-146 (Mankad), 6-172 (Naik), 7-183 (Solkar), 8-196 (Venkataraghavan), 9-211 (Prasanna), 10-216 (Engineer) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| GG Arnold | 19 | 3 | 61 | 2 | 3.21 | |||
| M Hendrick | 14.4 | 4 | 43 | 3 | 2.93 | |||
| DL Underwood | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1.00 | |||
| CM Old | 15 | 3 | 52 | 3 | 3.46 | |||
| AW Greig | 16 | 3 | 49 | 2 | 3.06 |
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Toss India, who chose to bat Series England won the 3-match series 3-0 |
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Test debut
SS Naik
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Umpires
WE Alley and CS Elliott |
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Series Results
Match Coverage
Photos
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Jul 6, 1974 
Farokh Engineer watches David Lloyd play the cut © Getty Images |
Jul 6, 1974 
Vinoo Mankad's hat falls on his wicket © The Cricketer International |
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