Date-stamped : 03 Nov93 - 05:10
Eng v Ind, T1, 27Nov-1Dec 1981, Match Highlights

This was India's eighth victory over England, against 27 defeats.

England's 102 was the lowest total by any visiting Test  side  in
India,  lowering  Australia's record of 105 in 1959-60 at Kanpur.
England's lowest ever total against India was 101 at the Oval  in
1971.

When 16 in  his  second  innings  Ian  Botham  became  the  third
cricketer  to  complete  the  Test  double  of 2,000 runs and 200
wickets, after Sir Garfield Sobers and  Richie  Benaud.   Botham,
in  his   42nd Test, also took five wickets in an innings for the
18th time. Benaud's 200th wicket came in his 49th  Test,  but  he
had   to  wait   until   his   60th   Test   for  his 2,000 runs.
Sobers's 200th wicket came in his 80th Test, at the end of  which
he  had  6,913 runs. He reached 2,000 runs in his 23rd Test.

Bob Taylor made his 100th  dismissal  in  Test  cricket  when  he
caught  Kapil  Dev in India's first innings, in his 30th Test. He
became the fourth England wicket-keeper, and the eleventh in all,
to accomplish this feat.

Madan Lal's five wickets for 23 runs were his best Test  figures,
in his first Test since December 1977. These figures are the best
analysis for India v England at Bombay and for the match (6-47).

Fletcher captained England in a Test for the first time.  He  was
the 62nd England captain, and the third from Essex.

<END> Contributed by sidi (sidi@*nwu.edu)