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| Venue | Manuka Oval, Canberra on 18th, 19th January 1978 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Australian Capital Territory and Districts won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | BC Richings, SV Smith |
| Scorers | K Hill, S McDonald |
| Close of play day 1 | Indians (1) 277/5 (Mankad 117*, Ghavri 55*; 59 overs) |
| Indians first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DB Vengsarkar | lbw b Macdonald | 0 | 2 | - | - | ||
| CPS Chauhan | c McLeod b Samuels | 33 | 34 | 4 | - | ||
| AD Gaekwad | st McLeod b Cremer | 36 | 117 | 1 | - | ||
| GR Viswanath | c and b Bickle | 18 | 39 | 2 | - | ||
| AV Mankad | not out | 117 | 185 | 6 | - | ||
| +SMH Kirmani | lbw b Macdonald | 14 | 20 | 1 | - | ||
| KD Ghavri | not out | 55 | 120 | 1 | - | ||
| Madan Lal | did not bat | ||||||
| B Reddy | did not bat | ||||||
| *BS Bedi | did not bat | ||||||
| S Venkataraghavan | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 1 lb, 2 w) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, declared, 260 minutes, 58 overs) | 277 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Vengsarkar), 2-42 (Chauhan), 3-71 (Viswanath), 4-100 (Gaekwad), 5-127 (Kirmani) | |||||||
| Australian Capital Territory and Districts bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Macdonald | 14 | 0 | 67 | 2 | - | - | |
| Bickle | 12 | 3 | 76 | 1 | - | - | |
| Samuels | 14 | 2 | 47 | 1 | - | - | |
| Cremer | 13 | 1 | 50 | 1 | - | - | |
| Heading | 5 | 0 | 33 | 0 | - | - | |
| Australian Capital Territory and Districts first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BJ Kensey | c Gaekwad b Venkataraghavan | 24 | 87 | 3 | - | ||
| N Grant | c Viswanath b Bedi | 30 | 114 | 2 | - | ||
| C Pitt | c Chauhan b Venkataraghavan | 5 | 20 | - | - | ||
| W Robson | c Gaekwad b Bedi | 12 | 24 | 1 | - | ||
| P Harvey | c and b Bedi | 22 | 53 | 2 | - | ||
| RC Heading | c Vengsarkar b Bedi | 4 | 2 | 1 | - | ||
| GP Cremer | st Kirmani b Venkataraghavan | 15 | 22 | 2 | - | ||
| *GJ Samuels | not out | 22 | 69 | 1 | 1 | ||
| +G McLeod | lbw b Ghavri | 43 | 53 | 7 | - | ||
| PJ Bickle | c Bedi b Ghavri | 0 | 1 | - | - | ||
| AJ Macdonald | b Venkataraghavan | 3 | 4 | - | - | ||
| Extras | (9 b, 7 lb) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 227 minutes, 53.5 overs) | 196 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-49 (Kensey), 2-69 (Pitt), 3-71 (Grant), 4-89 (Robson), 5-93 (Heading), 6-118 (Cremer), 7-124 (Harvey), 8-192 (McLeod), 9-192 (Bickle), 10-196 (Macdonald, 53.5 ov) | |||||||
| Indians bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Ghavri | 7 | 2 | 13 | 2 | - | - | |
| Madan Lal | 6 | 1 | 17 | 0 | - | - | |
| Reddy | 3 | 1 | 7 | 0 | - | - | |
| Venkataraghavan | 17.5 | 4 | 43 | 4 | - | - | |
| Bedi | 13 | 1 | 54 | 4 | - | - | |
| Viswanath | 4 | 0 | 34 | 0 | - | - | |
| Gaekwad | 3 | 0 | 12 | 0 | - | - | |
| Indians second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DB Vengsarkar | lbw b Bickle | 29 | 36 | 3 | 1 | ||
| CPS Chauhan | b Macdonald | 10 | 12 | 2 | - | ||
| AD Gaekwad | not out | 42 | 106 | 3 | - | ||
| Madan Lal | not out | 100 | 82 | 15 | 2 | ||
| GR Viswanath | did not bat | ||||||
| AV Mankad | did not bat | ||||||
| +SMH Kirmani | did not bat | ||||||
| KD Ghavri | did not bat | ||||||
| B Reddy | did not bat | ||||||
| *BS Bedi | did not bat | ||||||
| S Venkataraghavan | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b) | 1 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets, 119 minutes, 28 overs) | 182 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-19 (Chauhan), 2-51 (Vengsarkar) | |||||||
| Australian Capital Territory and Districts bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Macdonald | 3 | 0 | 26 | 1 | - | - | |
| Bickle | 5 | 1 | 24 | 1 | - | - | |
| Samuels | 4 | 0 | 25 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cremer | 7 | 0 | 49 | 0 | - | - | |
| Heading | 5 | 1 | 16 | 0 | - | - | |
| Kensey | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | - | - | |
| Robson | 1 | 0 | 27 | 0 | - | - | |
| Harvey | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | - | - | |
| Grant | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | - | - | |