f33939	Central Zone v England XI
	England in India and Sri Lanka 1981/82
Venue	Nehru Stadium, Indore on 22nd, 23rd, 24th January 1982 (3-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Toss not known
Result	Match drawn
Umpires	SK Ghosh, V Vikramraju
Close of play day 1	England XI (1) 367/5 (Gatting 108*, Dilley 0*)
Close of play day 2	Central Zone (1) 197/5 (PH Sharma 19*, Vedraj Chauhan 20*)

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England XI first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
G Cook	c Rao b Mathur	39
CJ Tavaré	c Bhanot b Mathur	14
*KWR Fletcher	c Vedraj Chauhan b G Sharma	32
MW Gatting	b Aslam Ali	111			14	3
IT Botham	c Chaturvedi b PH Sharma	122	53	55	16	7
RW Taylor	st Vedraj Chauhan b G Sharma	40
GR Dilley	c Deshpande b Mathur	52
JE Emburey	not out	9
+CJ Richards	did not bat
DL Underwood	did not bat
JK Lever	did not bat
Extras	(8 b, 2 lb, 7 nb)	17
Total	(7 wickets, declared, 93.3 overs)	436
Fall of wickets:
1-33, 2-87, 3-87, 4-224, 5-351, 6-388, 7-436 (93.3 ov)

Central Zone bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Aslam Ali	17	2	68	1	-	-
Deshpande	3	1	9	0	-	-
Mathur	27.3	4	82	3	-	-
Hans	14	4	91	0	-	-
G Sharma	26	4	107	2	-	-
PH Sharma	6	0	62	1	-	-

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Central Zone first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
S Rao	retired hurt	17
SS Khandkar	c Taylor b Botham	29
S Chaturvedi	c Richards b Underwood	33
A Bhanot	c and b Underwood	40
AP Deshpande	run out	20
*PH Sharma	b Emburey	20
AG Mathur	c Cook b Emburey	12
+Vedraj Chauhan	hit wkt b Lever	59
G Sharma	c and b Emburey	18
M Aslam Ali	c Taylor b Dilley	48
RS Hans	not out	6
Extras	(1 b, 4 lb, 4 nb)	9
Total	(all out, 80.2 overs)	311
Fall of wickets:
1-40, 2-97, 3-132, 4-160, 5-173, 6-203, 7-247, 8-287, 9-311 (80.2 ov)

England XI bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Botham	9	2	39	1	-	-
Dilley	13.2	4	57	1	-	-
Lever	24	6	73	1	-	-
Underwood	12	2	29	2	-	-
Emburey	21	5	94	3	-	-
Fletcher	1	0	10	0	-	-

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England XI second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
G Cook	not out	104			9	-
CJ Tavaré	c sub b Hans	81
+CJ Richards	not out	16
*KWR Fletcher	did not bat
MW Gatting	did not bat
IT Botham	did not bat
RW Taylor	did not bat
GR Dilley	did not bat
JE Emburey	did not bat
DL Underwood	did not bat
JK Lever	did not bat
Extras	(2 b, 5 lb, 2 nb)	9
Total	(1 wicket, declared, 52 overs)	210
Fall of wickets:
1-164 (Tavaré)

Central Zone bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Aslam Ali	9	0	30	0	-	-
Mathur	11	2	34	0	-	-
Hans	14	2	59	1	-	-
G Sharma	17	1	70	0	-	-
Bhanot	1	0	8	0	-	-

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Notes
--> IT Botham (1) 50 in 27 balls, 34 minutes with 8 fours and 2 sixes
--> IT Botham (1) 100 in 45 balls, 50 minutes with 14 fours and 5 sixes
--> IT Botham (1) passed 8000 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 103
--> S Rao retired hurt in the Central Zone first innings having scored 17 (team had lost 1 wickets)

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