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| Venue | Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi on 12th, 13th, 14th, 16th December 1959 (5-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | India won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Australia won by an innings and 127 runs |
| Umpires | SK Ganguli, Mohammad Yunus |
| Close of play day 1 | Australia (1) 22/0 (McDonald 9*, Favell 13*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Australia (1) 293/4 (Mackay 50*, Davidson 12*) |
| Close of play day 3 | India (2) 46/0 (Roy 25*, Contractor 12*) |
| Articles | Lindsay Kline |
| India first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| P Roy | c Grout b Davidson | 0 | |||||
| NJ Contractor | b Davidson | 41 | 130 | - | |||
| PR Umrigar | c Grout b Davidson | 0 | |||||
| AA Baig | b Rorke | 9 | |||||
| CG Borde | c Grout b Meckiff | 14 | |||||
| *GS Ramchand | c Grout b Kline | 20 | |||||
| RG Nadkarni | b Rorke | 1 | |||||
| +PG Joshi | b Benaud | 15 | |||||
| Surendranath | not out | 24 | |||||
| VM Muddiah | lbw b Benaud | 0 | |||||
| RB Desai | c O'Neill b Benaud | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (6 b, 2 lb, 3 nb) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 59.4 overs) | 135 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-4 (Roy), 2-8 (Umrigar), 3-32 (Baig), 4-66 (Borde), 5-69 (Contractor), 6-70 (Nadkarni), 7-100 (Ramchand), 8-131 (Joshi), 9-135 (Muddiah), 10-135 (Desai, 59.4 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Davidson | 14 | 9 | 22 | 3 | - | - | |
| Meckiff | 17 | 4 | 52 | 1 | - | - | |
| Rorke | 14 | 5 | 30 | 2 | - | - | |
| Kline | 9 | 3 | 15 | 1 | - | - | |
| Benaud | 3.4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | - | - | |
| Mackay | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | |
| O'Neill | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | - | - | |
| Australia first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| CC McDonald | b Surendranath | 20 | |||||
| LE Favell | b Surendranath | 39 | |||||
| RN Harvey | lbw b Nadkarni | 114 | 230 | 14 | - | ||
| NCL O'Neill | run out | 39 | |||||
| KD Mackay | c Joshi b Umrigar | 78 | |||||
| AK Davidson | c Baig b Desai | 25 | 1 | ||||
| *R Benaud | c Borde b Umrigar | 20 | |||||
| +ATW Grout | b Umrigar | 42 | |||||
| LF Kline | c and b Ramchand | 14 | |||||
| I Meckiff | not out | 45 | |||||
| GF Rorke | c sub (BK Kunderam) b Umrigar | 7 | |||||
| Extras | (11 b, 13 lb, 1 nb) | 25 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 143 overs) | 468 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-53 (McDonald), 2-64 (Favell), 3-143 (O'Neill), 4-275 (Harvey), 5-318 (Davidson), 6-353 (Mackay), 7-398 (Benaud), 8-402 (Grout), 9-443 (Kline), 10-468 (Rorke, 143 ov) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Desai | 34.3 | 3 | 123 | 1 | - | - | |
| Surendranath | 38 | 8 | 101 | 2 | - | - | |
| Borde | 15 | 3 | 49 | 0 | - | - | |
| Muddiah | 13 | 4 | 32 | 0 | - | - | |
| Nadkarni | 20 | 6 | 62 | 1 | - | - | |
| Ramchand | 7 | 1 | 27 | 1 | - | - | |
| Umrigar | 15.3 | 1 | 49 | 4 | - | - | |
| India second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| P Roy | c Benaud b Kline | 99 | 305 | 14 | - | ||
| NJ Contractor | c Favell b Benaud | 34 | |||||
| AA Baig | run out | 5 | |||||
| CG Borde | c Davidson b Benaud | 0 | - | - | |||
| PR Umrigar | c Favell b Kline | 32 | |||||
| *GS Ramchand | c Davidson b Kline | 6 | |||||
| RG Nadkarni | lbw b Benaud | 7 | |||||
| +PG Joshi | c Davidson b Kline | 8 | |||||
| Surendranath | c Davidson b Benaud | 0 | - | - | |||
| VM Muddiah | not out | 0 | - | - | |||
| RB Desai | c Meckiff b Benaud | 0 | - | - | |||
| Extras | (8 b, 5 lb, 2 nb) | 15 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 111 overs) | 206 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-121 (Contractor), 2-132 (Baig), 3-132 (Borde), 4-172 (Roy), 5-187 (Umrigar), 6-192 (Ramchand), 7-202 (Nadkarni), 8-206 (Joshi), 9-206 (Surendranath), 10-206 (Desai, 111 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Davidson | 14 | 5 | 16 | 0 | - | - | |
| Meckiff | 14 | 3 | 33 | 0 | - | - | |
| Rorke | 7 | 3 | 5 | 0 | - | - | |
| Benaud | 46 | 18 | 76 | 5 | - | - | |
| Kline | 24 | 12 | 42 | 4 | - | - | |
| Harvey | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | |
| O'Neill | 5 | 0 | 19 | 0 | - | - | |