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| Venue | Grace Road, Leicester on 7th, 8th, 9th July 1971 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Leicestershire won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Indians won by an innings and 50 runs |
| Umpires | AEG Rhodes, TW Spencer |
| Close of play day 1 | Indians (1) 120/1 (Gavaskar 54*, Wadekar 36*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Leicestershire (2) 47/1 (Steele 20*, Balderstone 10*) |
| Leicestershire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| B Dudleston | run out | 51 | |||||
| JF Steele | c and b Chandrasekhar | 26 | |||||
| JC Balderstone | c Wadekar b Prasanna | 15 | |||||
| CC Inman | c Krishnamurthy b Venkataraghavan | 49 | |||||
| BF Davison | c Solkar b Prasanna | 13 | |||||
| *+RW Tolchard | b Chandrasekhar | 6 | |||||
| J Birkenshaw | c Venkataraghavan b Chandrasekhar | 3 | |||||
| GF Cross | c and b Chandrasekhar | 19 | |||||
| GD McKenzie | c Gavaskar b Chandrasekhar | 1 | |||||
| CT Spencer | b Venkataraghavan | 10 | |||||
| RB Matthews | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (5 lb) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 73.2 overs) | 198 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-60, 2-85, 3-121, 4-142, 5-163, 6-163, 7-170, 8-178, 9-198, 10-198 (73.2 ov) | |||||||
| Indians bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Govindraj | 8 | 3 | 31 | 0 | - | - | |
| Solkar | 5 | 0 | 18 | 0 | - | - | |
| Prasanna | 21 | 7 | 42 | 2 | - | - | |
| Chandrasekhar | 21.2 | 4 | 63 | 5 | - | - | |
| Venkataraghavan | 18 | 5 | 39 | 2 | - | - | |
| Indians first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| SM Gavaskar | c Tolchard b Matthews | 165 | 21 | - | |||
| AA Baig | c and b Birkenshaw | 23 | |||||
| *AL Wadekar | c Birkenshaw b Steele | 126 | |||||
| DN Sardesai | b Birkenshaw | 1 | |||||
| AV Mankad | not out | 43 | |||||
| ED Solkar | c Davison b Birkenshaw | 12 | |||||
| S Venkataraghavan | run out | 38 | |||||
| DD Govindraj | run out | 0 | |||||
| EAS Prasanna | did not bat | ||||||
| BS Chandrasekhar | did not bat | ||||||
| +P Krishnamurthy | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 lb, 5 nb, 1 w) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, declared, 130 overs) | 416 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-46, 2-277, 3-278, 4-339, 5-363, 6-415, 7-416 (130 ov) | |||||||
| Leicestershire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| McKenzie | 13 | 2 | 56 | 0 | - | - | |
| Matthews | 16 | 3 | 58 | 1 | - | - | |
| Birkenshaw | 45 | 6 | 128 | 3 | - | - | |
| Balderstone | 6 | 2 | 13 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cross | 12 | 1 | 36 | 0 | - | - | |
| Spencer | 10 | 2 | 29 | 0 | - | - | |
| Steele | 22 | 5 | 70 | 1 | - | - | |
| Dudleston | 6 | 0 | 18 | 0 | - | - | |
| Leicestershire second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| B Dudleston | b Chandrasekhar | 8 | |||||
| JF Steele | lbw b Chandrasekhar | 22 | |||||
| JC Balderstone | lbw b Venkataraghavan | 63 | |||||
| CC Inman | c Solkar b Chandrasekhar | 11 | |||||
| BF Davison | c Gavaskar b Chandrasekhar | 0 | |||||
| *+RW Tolchard | c Wadekar b Gavaskar | 30 | |||||
| J Birkenshaw | c Krishnamurthy b Chandrasekhar | 6 | |||||
| GF Cross | c Krishnamurthy b Venkataraghavan | 0 | |||||
| GD McKenzie | c Gavaskar b Chandrasekhar | 5 | |||||
| RB Matthews | not out | 1 | |||||
| CT Spencer | c sub b Venkataraghavan | 6 | |||||
| Extras | (10 b, 2 lb, 4 nb) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 73 overs) | 168 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-24, 2-54, 3-66, 4-66, 5-138, 6-152, 7-152, 8-152, 9-162, 10-168 (73 ov) | |||||||
| Indians bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Govindraj | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | - | - | |
| Solkar | 6 | 1 | 20 | 0 | - | - | |
| Prasanna | 16 | 8 | 21 | 0 | - | - | |
| Chandrasekhar | 28 | 9 | 64 | 6 | - | - | |
| Venkataraghavan | 19 | 6 | 31 | 3 | - | - | |
| Gavaskar | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 | - | - | |
Notes
--> RB Matthews made his debut in First-Class matches
--> AL Wadekar (1) passed 11000 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 76
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