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| Venue | Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad on 22nd, 23rd, 24th January 1977 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | South Zone won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | SK Raghunatha Rao, MG Subramaniam |
| Close of play day 1 | South Zone (1) 228/7 (Venkataraghavan 6*, Jyothiprasad 0*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Marylebone Cricket Club (1) 290/4 (Randall 110*, Knott 9*) |
| South Zone first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| V Sivaramakrishnan | run out | 27 | |||||
| P Ramesh | b Lever | 0 | |||||
| AV Jayaprakash | c Greig b Selvey | 6 | |||||
| GR Viswanath | c and b Cope | 49 | |||||
| BP Patel | c Amiss b Miller | 30 | |||||
| S Abid Ali | c and b Selvey | 63 | |||||
| MV Narasimha Rao | c Knott b Lever | 32 | |||||
| *S Venkataraghavan | not out | 6 | |||||
| P Jyothiprasad | not out | 0 | |||||
| +B Reddy | did not bat | ||||||
| D Meherbaba | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 2 lb, 11 nb, 1 w) | 15 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, declared, 83 overs) | 228 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-3, 2-26, 3-64, 4-111, 5-133, 6-195, 7-226 | |||||||
| Marylebone Cricket Club bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Lever | 14 | 3 | 42 | 2 | - | - | |
| Selvey | 23 | 10 | 42 | 2 | - | - | |
| Cope | 28 | 5 | 76 | 1 | - | - | |
| Woolmer | 9 | 1 | 27 | 0 | - | - | |
| Miller | 5 | 0 | 16 | 1 | - | - | |
| Greig | 4 | 0 | 10 | 0 | - | - | |
| Marylebone Cricket Club first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DL Amiss | st Reddy b Meherbaba | 138 | 285 | 14 | - | ||
| RA Woolmer | c Sivaramakrishnan b Abid Ali | 17 | |||||
| KWR Fletcher | c Reddy b Jayaprakash | 1 | |||||
| DW Randall | c Sivaramakrishnan b Abid Ali | 142 | 300 | 15 | - | ||
| GD Barlow | c Abid Ali b Venkataraghavan | 4 | |||||
| +APE Knott | c Venkataraghavan b Jayaprakash | 13 | |||||
| G Miller | lbw b Abid Ali | 7 | |||||
| *AW Greig | b Abid Ali | 10 | |||||
| GA Cope | not out | 27 | |||||
| JK Lever | c Patel b Meherbaba | 0 | |||||
| MWW Selvey | not out | 28 | |||||
| Extras | (6 b, 4 lb, 4 nb) | 14 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, declared, 128 overs) | 401 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-34, 2-35, 3-256, 4-273, 5-301, 6-314, 7-340, 8-351, 9-352 | |||||||
| South Zone bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Abid Ali | 32 | 2 | 100 | 4 | - | - | |
| Jyothiprasad | 8 | 0 | 26 | 0 | - | - | |
| Jayaprakash | 21 | 3 | 68 | 2 | - | - | |
| Venkataraghavan | 13 | 3 | 35 | 1 | - | - | |
| Meherbaba | 34 | 5 | 92 | 2 | - | - | |
| Narasimha Rao | 17 | 2 | 54 | 0 | - | - | |
| Patel | 3 | 0 | 12 | 0 | - | - | |
| South Zone second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| V Sivaramakrishnan | c Greig b Selvey | 2 | |||||
| P Ramesh | c Greig b Lever | 0 | |||||
| AV Jayaprakash | not out | 37 | |||||
| MV Narasimha Rao | not out | 64 | 8 | - | |||
| GR Viswanath | did not bat | ||||||
| BP Patel | did not bat | ||||||
| S Abid Ali | did not bat | ||||||
| *S Venkataraghavan | did not bat | ||||||
| P Jyothiprasad | did not bat | ||||||
| +B Reddy | did not bat | ||||||
| D Meherbaba | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 lb) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets, 49 overs) | 107 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-1, 2-3 | |||||||
| Marylebone Cricket Club bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Lever | 8 | 0 | 24 | 1 | - | - | |
| Selvey | 14 | 3 | 37 | 1 | - | - | |
| Cope | 18 | 7 | 32 | 0 | - | - | |
| Woolmer | 8 | 4 | 9 | 0 | - | - | |
| Randall | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | |