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| Venue | Eden Gardens, Calcutta on 31st December 1958, 1st, 3rd, 4th January 1959 (5-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | West Indies won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | West Indies won by an innings and 336 runs |
| Umpires | Mohammad Yunus, ND Nagarvala |
| Close of play day 1 | West Indies (1) 359/3 (Kanhai 203*, Butcher 87*) |
| Close of play day 2 | India (1) 29/2 (Ghorpade 0*, Kenny 3*) |
| Close of play day 3 | India (2) 69/5 (Manjrekar 20*, Phadkar 14*) |
| West Indies first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JKC Holt | c Contractor b Surendranath | 5 | |||||
| CC Hunte | c Surendranath b Gupte | 23 | |||||
| RB Kanhai | c Umrigar b Surendranath | 256 | 400 | 42 | - | ||
| OG Smith | b Umrigar | 34 | |||||
| BF Butcher | lbw b Ghulam Ahmed | 103 | 180 | 15 | - | ||
| GS Sobers | not out | 106 | |||||
| JS Solomon | not out | 69 | 140 | - | |||
| *+FCM Alexander | did not bat | ||||||
| S Ramadhin | did not bat | ||||||
| WW Hall | did not bat | ||||||
| R Gilchrist | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (8 b, 9 lb, 1 nb) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, declared, 162.1 overs) | 614 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-12 (Holt), 2-72 (Hunte), 3-180 (Smith), 4-397 (Butcher), 5-454 (Kanhai) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Phadkar | 43 | 6 | 173 | 0 | - | - | |
| Surendranath | 46 | 8 | 168 | 2 | - | - | |
| Gupte | 39 | 8 | 119 | 1 | - | - | |
| Ghulam Ahmed | 16.1 | 1 | 52 | 1 | - | - | |
| Umrigar | 16 | 1 | 62 | 1 | - | - | |
| Ghorpade | 2 | 0 | 22 | 0 | - | - | |
| India first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| P Roy | c Solomon b Gilchrist | 11 | |||||
| NJ Contractor | lbw b Ramadhin | 4 | |||||
| JM Ghorpade | c Alexander b Gilchrist | 7 | |||||
| RB Kenny | c Alexander b Hall | 16 | |||||
| PR Umrigar | not out | 44 | |||||
| VL Manjrekar | b Hall | 0 | |||||
| DG Phadkar | c Sobers b Gilchrist | 3 | |||||
| +NS Tamhane | c Sobers b Hall | 0 | |||||
| Surendranath | run out | 8 | 90 | - | |||
| *Ghulam Ahmed | lbw b Sobers | 4 | |||||
| SP Gupte | b Ramadhin | 12 | |||||
| Extras | (2 b, 8 lb, 4 nb, 1 w) | 15 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 62.5 overs) | 124 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-24 (Contractor), 2-26 (Roy), 3-52 (Ghorpade), 4-52 (Kenny), 5-52 (Manjrekar), 6-57 (Phadkar), 7-58 (Tamhane), 8-89 (Surendranath), 9-99 (Ghulam Ahmed), 10-124 (Gupte, 62.5 ov) | |||||||
| West Indies bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Gilchrist | 23 | 13 | 18 | 3 | - | - | |
| Hall | 15 | 6 | 31 | 3 | - | - | |
| Ramadhin | 16.5 | 8 | 27 | 2 | - | - | |
| Smith | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | - | - | |
| Sobers | 6 | 0 | 32 | 1 | - | - | |
| India second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| P Roy | c Alexander b Hall | 0 | - | - | |||
| NJ Contractor | b Gilchrist | 6 | |||||
| PR Umrigar | c Alexander b Hall | 2 | - | - | |||
| VL Manjrekar | not out | 58 | |||||
| RB Kenny | b Hall | 0 | - | - | |||
| JM Ghorpade | b Sobers | 16 | |||||
| DG Phadkar | b Gilchrist | 35 | |||||
| Surendranath | c Alexander b Gilchrist | 3 | - | - | |||
| +NS Tamhane | b Gilchrist | 0 | - | - | |||
| *Ghulam Ahmed | b Gilchrist | 0 | - | - | |||
| SP Gupte | b Gilchrist | 15 | |||||
| Extras | (3 b, 16 nb) | 19 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 49 overs) | 154 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-5 (Roy), 2-7 (Umrigar), 3-10 (Contractor), 4-17 (Kenny), 5-44 (Ghorpade), 6-115 (Phadkar), 7-131 (Surendranath), 8-131 (Tamhane), 9-131 (Ghulam Ahmed), 10-154 (Gupte, 49 ov) | |||||||
| West Indies bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Gilchrist | 21 | 7 | 55 | 6 | - | - | |
| Hall | 18 | 5 | 55 | 3 | - | - | |
| Ramadhin | 8 | 3 | 14 | 0 | - | - | |
| Sobers | 2 | 0 | 11 | 1 | - | - | |
Notes
--> The match was scheduled for five days but completed in four.
--> RB Kenny made his debut in Test matches
--> Surendranath made his debut in Test matches
--> DG Phadkar made his last appearance in Test matches
--> Ghulam Ahmed made his last appearance in Test matches
--> RB Kanhai (1) 50 in 80 minutes
--> RB Kanhai (1) passed his previous highest score of 96 in Test matches
--> RB Kanhai (1) made his first century in Test matches
--> RB Kanhai (1) 100 in 132 minutes with 19 fours
--> RB Kanhai (1) 150 in 204 minutes
--> RB Kanhai (1) passed his previous highest score of 195 in First-Class matches
--> RB Kanhai (1) 200 in 286 minutes with 34 fours
--> RB Kanhai (1) passed 2500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 138
--> BF Butcher (1) 50 in 119 minutes
--> BF Butcher (1) passed his previous highest score of 64 in Test matches
--> BF Butcher (1) made his first century in Test matches
--> BF Butcher (1) 100 in 170 minutes with 15 fours
--> GS Sobers (1) 50 in 107 minutes
--> GS Sobers (1) 100 in 196 minutes with 10 fours
--> JS Solomon (1) 50 in 119 minutes
--> VL Manjrekar (2) 50 in 160 minutes
--> VL Manjrekar (2) passed 1500 runs in Test matches when he reached 16
--> Surendranath made his debut for India in First-Class matches
--> R Gilchrist achieved his best innings bowling analysis in Test matches when he dismissed Ghulam Ahmed in the India second innings (previous best was 4-32)
--> R Gilchrist achieved his first five wickets in an innings in Test matches in the India second innings
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