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| Venue | Eden Park, Auckland on 13th, 14th, 15th, 17th, 18th March 1981 (5-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | India won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | FR Goodall, SJ Woodward |
| Close of play day 1 | India (1) 184/8 (Kirmani 42*, Yadav 28*) |
| Close of play day 2 | New Zealand (1) 127/1 (Wright 55*, Reid 66*) |
| Close of play day 3 | New Zealand (1) 357/8 (Cairns 34*, Bracewell 0*) |
| Close of play day 4 | India (2) 197/4 (Vengsarkar 20*, Patil 36*) |
| Player of the Match | JG Wright, RJ Shastri |
| India first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *SM Gavaskar | c Smith b Snedden | 5 | 21 | 22 | 1 | - | |
| CPS Chauhan | c Cairns b Bracewell | 36 | 132 | 165 | 4 | - | |
| DB Vengsarkar | c Howarth b Snedden | 0 | 6 | 8 | - | - | |
| SM Patil | c Smith b Cairns | 19 | 18 | 28 | 4 | - | |
| GR Viswanath | lbw b Hadlee | 2 | 17 | 23 | - | - | |
| TE Srinivasan | c Smith b Bracewell | 29 | 81 | 98 | 3 | - | |
| RJ Shastri | c and b Cairns | 5 | 45 | 52 | - | - | |
| +SMH Kirmani | b Bracewell | 78 | 230 | 278 | 5 | - | |
| Kapil Dev | b Cairns | 4 | 10 | 12 | 1 | - | |
| NS Yadav | c Hadlee b Bracewell | 43 | 213 | 213 | 3 | - | |
| DR Doshi | not out | 3 | 16 | 16 | - | - | |
| Extras | (5 b, 3 lb, 6 nb) | 14 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 463 minutes, 130.3 overs) | 238 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-9 (Gavaskar), 2-10 (Vengsarkar), 3-43 (Patil), 4-50 (Viswanath), 5-97 (Chauhan), 6-100 (Srinivasan), 7-114 (Shastri), 8-124 (Kapil Dev), 9-229 (Yadav), 10-238 (Kirmani, 130.3 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hadlee | 27 | 11 | 49 | 1 | - | - | |
| Snedden | 22 | 7 | 52 | 2 | - | - | |
| Cairns | 27 | 13 | 37 | 3 | - | - | |
| Coney | 9 | 1 | 14 | 0 | - | - | |
| Bracewell | 42.3 | 17 | 61 | 4 | - | - | |
| Howarth | 3 | 0 | 11 | 0 | - | - | |
| New Zealand first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JG Wright | c Kirmani b Chauhan | 110 | 434 | 460 | 10 | 1 | |
| BA Edgar | c Shastri b Patil | 0 | 2 | 5 | - | - | |
| JF Reid | c Viswanath b Shastri | 74 | 269 | 272 | 5 | - | |
| *GP Howarth | c sub (Jalaluddin) b Shastri | 0 | 17 | 15 | - | - | |
| JV Coney | c and b Doshi | 65 | 207 | 261 | 7 | - | |
| GN Edwards | c and b Doshi | 34 | 50 | 61 | 4 | - | |
| RJ Hadlee | c Chauhan b Yadav | 0 | 7 | 5 | - | - | |
| BL Cairns | c Gavaskar b Shastri | 41 | 72 | 98 | 4 | 1 | |
| +IDS Smith | b Shastri | 10 | 23 | 27 | 2 | - | |
| JG Bracewell | lbw b Shastri | 1 | 38 | 31 | - | - | |
| MC Snedden | not out | 0 | 7 | 10 | - | - | |
| Extras | (14 b, 10 lb, 7 nb) | 31 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 627 minutes, 186 overs) | 366 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Edgar), 2-148 (Reid), 3-152 (Howarth), 4-251 (Wright), 5-301 (Edwards), 6-302 (Hadlee), 7-332 (Coney), 8-354 (Smith), 9-365 (Bracewell), 10-366 (Cairns, 186 ov) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Kapil Dev | 20 | 6 | 34 | 0 | - | - | |
| Patil | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | - | - | |
| Yadav | 33 | 8 | 91 | 1 | - | - | |
| Doshi | 69 | 34 | 79 | 2 | - | - | |
| Shastri | 56 | 13 | 125 | 5 | - | - | |
| Chauhan | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | - | - | |
| India second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *SM Gavaskar | c Wright b Bracewell | 33 | 101 | 115 | 5 | - | |
| CPS Chauhan | c Cairns b Bracewell | 7 | 52 | 86 | - | - | |
| TE Srinivasan | c Wright b Cairns | 19 | 105 | 119 | 3 | - | |
| GR Viswanath | run out | 46 | 137 | 153 | 6 | - | |
| DB Vengsarkar | not out | 52 | 184 | 242 | 5 | - | |
| SM Patil | b Bracewell | 57 | 93 | 100 | 8 | 1 | |
| Kapil Dev | c Edgar b Cairns | 14 | 17 | 24 | 2 | 1 | |
| +SMH Kirmani | b Bracewell | 1 | 5 | 3 | - | - | |
| RJ Shastri | run out | 9 | 34 | 30 | 2 | - | |
| NS Yadav | c Smith b Bracewell | 1 | 5 | 4 | - | - | |
| DR Doshi | b Cairns | 2 | 4 | 6 | - | - | |
| Extras | (23 b, 7 lb, 13 nb) | 43 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 120.5 overs) | 284 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-43 (Chauhan), 2-50 (Gavaskar), 3-93 (Srinivasan), 4-143 (Viswanath), 5-236 (Patil), 6-260 (Kapil Dev), 7-261 (Kirmani), 8-277 (Shastri), 9-279 (Yadav), 10-284 (Doshi, 120.5 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hadlee | 21 | 3 | 65 | 0 | - | - | |
| Snedden | 13 | 4 | 40 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cairns | 35.5 | 16 | 47 | 3 | - | - | |
| Bracewell | 41 | 19 | 75 | 5 | - | - | |
| Coney | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | - | - | |
| Howarth | 6 | 3 | 11 | 0 | - | - | |
| New Zealand second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JG Wright | not out | 33 | 194 | 218 | 2 | - | |
| BA Edgar | c Kirmani b Kapil Dev | 1 | 7 | 9 | - | - | |
| GN Edwards | c and b Shastri | 47 | 96 | 132 | 2 | 1 | |
| RJ Hadlee | b Shastri | 2 | 11 | 12 | - | - | |
| *GP Howarth | c Chauhan b Doshi | 2 | 49 | 52 | - | - | |
| JF Reid | lbw b Doshi | 0 | 6 | 6 | - | - | |
| JV Coney | not out | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | - | |
| BL Cairns | did not bat | ||||||
| +IDS Smith | did not bat | ||||||
| JG Bracewell | did not bat | ||||||
| MC Snedden | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (3 b, 4 lb, 3 nb) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 218 minutes, 62 overs) | 95 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-1 (Edgar), 2-83 (Edwards), 3-87 (Hadlee), 4-94 (Howarth), 5-95 (Reid) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Kapil Dev | 10 | 6 | 15 | 1 | - | - | |
| Patil | 4 | 0 | 8 | 0 | - | - | |
| Doshi | 19 | 9 | 18 | 2 | - | - | |
| Shastri | 18 | 8 | 24 | 2 | - | - | |
| Yadav | 11 | 4 | 20 | 0 | - | - | |