| f30978 | |
| Venue | Carisbrook, Dunedin on 31st January, 1st, 2nd February 1976 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Indians won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | EW Dempster, EG Wainscott |
| Close of play day 1 | Indians (1) 252/4 (Patel 61*, Amarnath 3*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Otago (1) 252/9 (Turner 121*, Petherick 2*) |
| Indians first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| PH Sharma | lbw b Thomson | 22 | |||||
| DB Vengsarkar | c Lees b BJ McKechnie | 130 | |||||
| R Sudhakar Rao | b Alabaster | 34 | |||||
| BP Patel | c Lees b BJ McKechnie | 73 | |||||
| SM Gavaskar | b BJ McKechnie | 2 | |||||
| M Amarnath | not out | 21 | |||||
| +SMH Kirmani | not out | 20 | |||||
| S Venkataraghavan | did not bat | ||||||
| P Krishnamurthy | did not bat | ||||||
| *BS Bedi | did not bat | ||||||
| BS Chandrasekhar | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 lb) | 2 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, declared, 96 overs) | 304 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-57, 2-121, 3-242, 4-244, 5-274 | |||||||
| Otago bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Thomson | 22 | 1 | 67 | 1 | - | - | |
| BJ McKechnie | 22 | 3 | 64 | 3 | - | - | |
| Petherick | 12 | 3 | 32 | 0 | - | - | |
| DEC McKechnie | 17 | 1 | 44 | 0 | - | - | |
| Alabaster | 22 | 3 | 94 | 1 | - | - | |
| Campbell | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | |
| Otago first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| IA Rutherford | lbw b Chandrasekhar | 13 | |||||
| *GM Turner | not out | 121 | |||||
| RW Anderson | c sub b Bedi | 66 | |||||
| HC Sampson | c sub b Venkataraghavan | 5 | |||||
| KO Campbell | c Venkataraghavan b Bedi | 1 | |||||
| +WK Lees | c sub b Venkataraghavan | 11 | |||||
| BJ McKechnie | b Venkataraghavan | 0 | |||||
| GD Alabaster | b Bedi | 0 | |||||
| DEC McKechnie | c Sharma b Venkataraghavan | 8 | |||||
| GB Thomson | st Kirmani b Venkataraghavan | 1 | |||||
| PJ Petherick | not out | 2 | |||||
| Extras | (9 b, 11 lb, 4 nb) | 24 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, declared, 79 overs) | 252 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-42, 2-190, 3-213, 4-216, 5-233, 6-233, 7-234, 8-245, 9-247 | |||||||
| Indians bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Amarnath | 5 | 2 | 9 | 0 | - | - | |
| Gavaskar | 2 | 0 | 11 | 0 | - | - | |
| Venkataraghavan | 31 | 6 | 87 | 5 | - | - | |
| Chandrasekhar | 13 | 1 | 40 | 1 | - | - | |
| Bedi | 27 | 5 | 73 | 3 | - | - | |
| Sharma | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | - | - | |
| Indians second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| PH Sharma | c Turner b Petherick | 45 | |||||
| DB Vengsarkar | st Lees b Petherick | 32 | |||||
| R Sudhakar Rao | c and b Petherick | 6 | |||||
| BP Patel | c Lees b Petherick | 1 | |||||
| SM Gavaskar | c Anderson b Thomson | 11 | |||||
| M Amarnath | run out | 16 | |||||
| +SMH Kirmani | c Campbell b Alabaster | 8 | |||||
| S Venkataraghavan | c Sampson b Alabaster | 9 | |||||
| P Krishnamurthy | c Thomson b Petherick | 1 | |||||
| *BS Bedi | b Petherick | 0 | |||||
| BS Chandrasekhar | not out | 5 | |||||
| Extras | (7 b, 3 lb) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 37.6 overs) | 144 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-28, 2-63, 3-65, 4-111, 5-113, 6-123, 7-124, 8-124, 9-131, 10-144 (37.6 ov) | |||||||
| Otago bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Thomson | 6 | 0 | 24 | 1 | - | - | |
| BJ McKechnie | 8 | 0 | 28 | 0 | - | - | |
| Petherick | 10.6 | 2 | 36 | 6 | - | - | |
| Alabaster | 13 | 1 | 46 | 2 | - | - | |
| Otago second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| HC Sampson | c Patel b Bedi | 57 | |||||
| *GM Turner | c Venkataraghavan b Bedi | 55 | |||||
| RW Anderson | not out | 0 | |||||
| KO Campbell | not out | 0 | |||||
| IA Rutherford | did not bat | ||||||
| +WK Lees | did not bat | ||||||
| BJ McKechnie | did not bat | ||||||
| GD Alabaster | did not bat | ||||||
| DEC McKechnie | did not bat | ||||||
| GB Thomson | did not bat | ||||||
| PJ Petherick | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 2 lb) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets, 32.4 overs) | 116 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-116, 2-116 | |||||||
| Indians bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Amarnath | 2 | 1 | 9 | 0 | - | - | |
| Gavaskar | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | - | - | |
| Venkataraghavan | 12 | 1 | 34 | 0 | - | - | |
| Chandrasekhar | 7 | 0 | 25 | 0 | - | - | |
| Bedi | 10.4 | 1 | 38 | 2 | - | - | |