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f20903 t418	India v New Zealand
	New Zealand in India 1955/56 (3rd Test)
Venue	Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi on 16th, 17th, 18th, 20th, 21st December 1955 (5-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Match drawn
Umpires	DD Desai, ND Nagarwala
Close of play day 1	New Zealand (1) 218/1 (Sutcliffe 134, Guy 44)
Close of play day 2	India (1) 24/0 (Mehra 10, Contractor 14)
Close of play day 3	India (1) 187/3 (Manjrekar 30, Kripal Singh 31)
Close of play day 4	India (1) 393/5 (Manjrekar 140, Nadkarni 11)

New Zealand first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
JG Leggat	c Manjrekar b Gupte	37			5	-
B Sutcliffe	not out	230		540	30	-
JW Guy	c Mehra b Sunderam	52
JR Reid	not out	119		210	10	1
SN McGregor	did not bat
AR MacGibbon	did not bat
MB Poore	did not bat
*HB Cave	did not bat
JC Alabaster	did not bat
+TG McMahon	did not bat
JA Hayes	did not bat
Extras	(7 b, 5 lb)	12
Total	(2 wickets, declared, 176 overs)	450
Fall of wickets: 1-98 (Leggat), 2-228 (Guy)

India bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Sunderam	39	5	99	1	-	-
Ramchand	38	11	82	0	-	-
Gupte	39	10	98	1	-	-
Nadkarni	54	13	132	0	-	-
Bhandari	6	0	27	0	-	-

India first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
VL Mehra	c McMahon b Hayes	32
NJ Contractor	b Reid	62
*PR Umrigar	b MacGibbon	18
VL Manjrekar	c McMahon b Cave	177		555	20	-
AG Kripal Singh	b Hayes	36
GS Ramchand	st McMahon b Poore	72			11	1
RG Nadkarni	not out	68
P Bhandari	b MacGibbon	39
+NS Tamhane	did not bat
GR Sunderam	did not bat
SP Gupte	did not bat
Extras	(16 b, 4 lb, 7 nb)	27
Total	(7 wickets, declared, 241.5 overs)	531
Fall of wickets: 1-68 (Mehra), 2-111 (Umrigar), 3-119 (Contractor), 4-208 (Kripal Singh), 5-335 (Ramchand), 6-458 (Manjrekar), 7-531 (Bhandari, 241.5 ov)

New Zealand bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
MacGibbon	59.5	16	121	2	-	-
Cave	50	28	68	1	-	-
Hayes	44	9	105	2	-	-
Reid	41	14	86	1	-	-
Alabaster	29	9	90	0	-	-
Poore	15	4	26	1	-	-
Sutcliffe	3	0	8	0	-	-

New Zealand second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
JG Leggat	not out	50		130		-
SN McGregor	c Tamhane b Manjrekar	49
JW Guy	not out	10
B Sutcliffe	did not bat
JR Reid	did not bat
AR MacGibbon	did not bat
MB Poore	did not bat
*HB Cave	did not bat
JC Alabaster	did not bat
+TG McMahon	did not bat
JA Hayes	did not bat
Extras	(2 lb, 1 nb)	3
Total	(1 wicket, 58 overs)	112
Fall of wickets: 1-101 (McGregor)

India bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Sunderam	3	0	8	0	-	-
Ramchand	3	0	11	0	-	-
Gupte	6	1	22	0	-	-
Bhandari	7	2	12	0	-	-
Manjrekar	20	13	16	1	-	-
Kripal Singh	7	3	10	0	-	-
Contractor	6	1	17	0	-	-
Mehra	3	0	3	0	-	-
Nadkarni	3	1	10	0	-	-

Notes
--> B Sutcliffe (1) passed his previous highest Test Matches score of 137
--> B Sutcliffe (1) passed 11000 runs in First-Class Matches when he reached 208
--> JR Reid (1) passed 1000 runs in Test Matches when he reached 85
--> VL Mehra (1) passed his previous highest Test Matches score of 10
--> NJ Contractor (1) passed his previous highest Test Matches score of 16
--> VL Manjrekar (1) passed his previous highest Test Matches score of 133
--> VL Manjrekar (1) passed his previous highest First-Class Matches score of 173
--> VL Manjrekar (1) passed 1000 runs in Test Matches when he reached 65
--> GS Ramchand (1) passed his previous highest Test Matches score of 62
--> RG Nadkarni made his debut in Test Matches
--> P Bhandari (1) passed his previous highest Test Matches score of 19
--> GR Sunderam made his debut in Test Matches
--> JG Leggat (2) passed his previous highest Test Matches score of 47