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The Indians got off to a good start batting first, with Sunil Gavaskar and Ashok Mankad putting together 47 runs for the first wicket. Left-arm spinner Elquemedo Willett bowled out Mankad before lunch, with Ed Arthurton bowling a hostile spell of seam bowling after, to dismiss the Indians' middle-order that included wickets of M. L. Jaisimha and Salim Durani.
[12] [13] Gavaskar's highest Test score of 236 not out came against the West Indies at Chennai in 1983, [5] [N 1] an Indian record at that time. [5] He has scored 150 or more runs in a Test match innings on twelve occasions. Gavaskar was most successful against the West Indies and Australia scoring 13 and 8 centuries respectively.
Earlier in the 1975/6 Season the West Indies had toured Australia and played a six-Test series that was billed as an unofficial World Championship between the two strongest teams. While many of the West Indian players showed isolated evidence of their prodigious talent, the team as a whole suffered from disunity and ill-discipline and were ...
Gavaskar's 1974–75 series against the West Indies was interrupted, playing in only the First and fifth and final Test of the series against the West Indies. He scored 108 runs at 27, with an 86 bowled by Lance Gibbs at Bombay's Wankhede Stadium hosting the first test on this ground, the closest the Indian public got to see a century. [ 15 ]
Sunil Gavaskar 55 (144) Brian McKechnie 3/24 (12 overs) Bruce Edgar 84* (167) Mohinder Amarnath 1/39 (12 overs) ... West Indies vs New Zealand. 16 June 1979
The West Indies cricket team, captained by Alvin Kallicharran, toured India and Sri Lanka from November 1978 to February 1979 and played a six-match Test series against the India national cricket team. India won the series 1–0.
West Indies: Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney: 14 February 1969: Won [36] 24 Sunil Gavaskar (1/3) 124: 220 India West Indies: Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain: 13 April 1971: Drawn [37] 25 Lawrence Rowe: 214: 100* West Indies New Zealand: Sabina Park, Kingston: 16 February 1972: Drawn [38] 26 Greg Chappell (1/2) 247* 133 Australia New Zealand ...
The final of the 1983 Cricket World Cup was played between India and the West Indies at Lord's on 25 June 1983. This was the third consecutive World Cup final appearance for the West Indies, having won the last two Cricket World Cups. India, playing in their first final, defeated the West Indies to claim their first World Cup title.