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Kapil Dev Test record against Pakistan

1978-10-16 – 1989-12-09 · Available official international scorecards

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The record at a glance

This study covers 29 Test matches against Pakistan with recorded batting or bowling figures: 41 batting innings and 45 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
Batting411,0543927.02-
Bowling452,9829930.1260.04

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: 3.01 runs per six legal balls. Legal balls recorded: 5,944.

Batting milestones in this sample: 0 centuries and 8 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. 1978159 runs
  2. 1979148 runs
  3. 1980130 runs
  4. 198283 runs
  5. 1983141 runs
  6. 198452 runs
  7. 1987182 runs
  8. 1989159 runs
Test · Wickets by year
  1. 19787 wickets
  2. 197919 wickets
  3. 198013 wickets
  4. 19827 wickets
  5. 198329 wickets
  6. 19841 wickets
  7. 198711 wickets
  8. 198912 wickets
Exact yearly figures · 8 seasons
Test archive totals by year
YearMatBat innsRunsHSAvgSR100s50s4s6sBFBowl innsWktsBowl avgEconBowl SR
1989461595526.5083.680124019051231.502.2484.33
1987561826636.40-03-1-91139.092.6588.36
198423523326.00-00-0-21126.003.61209.00
1983791414115.66-00-3-92926.823.5245.62
198223837327.66105.0601141793739.713.6665.00
1980231308443.3363.720118120441320.002.9340.92
1979461486924.6681.310115218271916.102.4838.89
1978351595931.80-01-5-6760.853.64100.28

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
Home152151125.55-265524.21
Away142054328.57-194437.50
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 Pakistan · Iqbal Stadium

  2. First five-wicket innings in this archive

    Test v Pakistan · Arun Jaitley Stadium

  3. Highest recorded innings · 84 runs

    Test v Pakistan · MA Chidambaram Stadium

  4. Best recorded bowling · 8/85

    Test v Pakistan · Gaddafi Stadium

  5. Latest available scorecard

    Test v Pakistan · Sialkot

Recent recorded innings

Scorecards supporting this opposition study
DateVenueInningsRunsBallsWicketsConceded
1989-12-09Sialkot32746--
1989-12-09Sialkot2--244
1989-12-09Sialkot12721--
1989-12-01Gaddafi Stadium2--077
1989-12-01Gaddafi Stadium112--
1989-11-23Iqbal Stadium34968--
1989-11-23Iqbal Stadium2--3106
1989-11-23Iqbal Stadium103--
1989-11-15National Stadium, Karachi3--382
1989-11-15National Stadium, Karachi25550--
1989-11-15National Stadium, Karachi1--469
1987-03-13M Chinnaswamy Stadium4213--
1987-03-13M Chinnaswamy Stadium3--125
1987-03-13M Chinnaswamy Stadium2918--
1987-03-13M Chinnaswamy Stadium1--223
1987-03-04Narendra Modi Stadium3--019
1987-03-04Narendra Modi Stadium25052--
1987-03-04Narendra Modi Stadium1--346
1987-02-21Sawai Mansingh Stadium2--284
1987-02-21Sawai Mansingh Stadium150---

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.