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Kapil Dev Test record against Australia

1979-09-11 – 1992-02-01 · Available official international scorecards

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The record at a glance

This study covers 20 Test matches against Australia with recorded batting or bowling figures: 27 batting innings and 38 bowling innings. Matches with no batting or bowling entry for this player are outside this sample.

Batting runs and dismissals; bowling runs conceded and wickets
DisciplineInningsRunsWickets / outsAverageStrike rate
Batting276872626.42-
Bowling382,0037925.3560.07

Batting average = runs ÷ dismissals; batting strike rate = runs per 100 balls. Bowling average = runs conceded ÷ wickets; bowling strike rate = legal balls per wicket. Rates require fully recorded inputs. A hyphen means unrecorded; N/A means a zero denominator.

Bowling economy: 2.53 runs per six legal balls. Legal balls recorded: 4,746.

Batting milestones in this sample: 1 centuries and 3 scores from 50 to 99. Balls faced: -.

CAREER BY FORMAT

How the record developed

Available scorecards

Formats are shown separately. These totals cover published scorecards against the twelve national teams; they can differ from complete official career records.

Test

Test · Runs by year
  1. 1979212 runs
  2. 198155 runs
  3. 198593 runs
  4. 1986162 runs
  5. 1991100 runs
  6. 199265 runs
Test · Wickets by year
  1. 197928 wickets
  2. 198114 wickets
  3. 198511 wickets
  4. 19861 wickets
  5. 19919 wickets
  6. 199216 wickets
Exact yearly figures · 6 seasons
Test archive totals by year
YearMatBat innsRunsHSAvgSR100s50s4s6sBFBowl innsWktsBowl avgEconBowl SR
199235655613.0056.030111011661625.932.1372.75
1991241004425.0081.96001331224925.552.5560.00
19864316211954.0086.171024018871200.002.59462.00
198522935546.5075.000114012441118.182.3246.90
19813655229.1661.7900908951423.782.7551.78
1979672128335.33-01-1-122822.322.8047.82

Home, away and neutral conditions

Setting follows the recorded host country. Unknown locations are retained as unknown; venue names alone are not guessed.

Opposition record by match setting
SettingMatchesBat innsRunsBat avgBat SRBowl innsWicketsBowl avg
Home9933241.50-172826.75
Away111835519.7271.14215124.58
SCORECARD MILESTONES

Career timeline

Milestones found in available scorecards. The first recorded appearance here is not necessarily the international debut.

  1. First available scorecard

    Test v Australia · MA Chidambaram Stadium

  2. First five-wicket innings in this archive

    Test v Australia · Arun Jaitley Stadium

  3. Best recorded bowling · 8/106

    Test v Australia · Adelaide Oval

  4. Highest recorded innings · 119 runs

    Test v Australia · MA Chidambaram Stadium

  5. Latest available scorecard

    Test v Australia · WACA Ground

Recent recorded innings

Scorecards supporting this opposition study
DateVenueInningsRunsBallsWicketsConceded
1992-02-01WACA Ground401--
1992-02-01WACA Ground3--248
1992-02-01WACA Ground2415--
1992-02-01WACA Ground1--2103
1992-01-25Adelaide Oval4516--
1992-01-25Adelaide Oval3--5130
1992-01-25Adelaide Oval25683--
1992-01-25Adelaide Oval1--333
1992-01-02Sydney Cricket Ground3--141
1992-01-02Sydney Cricket Ground201--
1992-01-02Sydney Cricket Ground1--360
1991-12-26Melbourne Cricket Ground4--030
1991-12-26Melbourne Cricket Ground3127--
1991-12-26Melbourne Cricket Ground2--597
1991-12-26Melbourne Cricket Ground11950--
1991-11-29Brisbane Cricket Ground4--023
1991-11-29Brisbane Cricket Ground32524--
1991-11-29Brisbane Cricket Ground2--480
1991-11-29Brisbane Cricket Ground14441--
1986-10-15Wankhede Stadium3--024

This opposition study uses available scorecards in Cricket Wicket’s twelve-team publication scope. It is a dated archive analysis, not a claim of complete career coverage. Read the coverage and calculation method.