Series: | English cricket team in India in 1979–80 |
Date: | 15–19 February 1980 |
Place: | India |
Result: | England won the only Test |
Captain1: | Gundappa Viswanath |
Captain2: | Mike Brearley |
Runs1: | Sunil Gavaskar (73) Yashpal Sharma (48) Kapil Dev (45) |
Runs2: | Ian Botham (114) Geoff Boycott (65) Graham Gooch (57) |
Wickets1: | Karsan Ghavri (5) Kapil Dev (3) Dilip Doshi (1) |
Wickets2: | Ian Botham (13) John Lever (4) Graham Stevenson (2) |
The England national cricket team visited India in February 1980 and played a single Test match against the India national cricket team. It was played to celebrate the golden jubilee of the formation of Board of Control for Cricket in India.[1]