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Kapil Dev Test record against West Indies

1978-12-01 – 1989-04-28 · Available official international scorecards

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The record at a glance

This study covers 25 Test matches against West Indies with recorded batting or bowling figures: 39 batting innings and 41 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
Batting391,0793530.82-
Bowling412,2168924.8952.12

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: 2.86 runs per six legal balls. Legal balls recorded: 4,639.

Batting milestones in this sample: 3 centuries and 4 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. 1978115 runs
  2. 1979214 runs
  3. 1983438 runs
  4. 1987107 runs
  5. 1988114 runs
  6. 198991 runs
Test · Wickets by year
  1. 19786 wickets
  2. 197911 wickets
  3. 198346 wickets
  4. 19877 wickets
  5. 19881 wickets
  6. 198918 wickets
Exact yearly figures · 6 seasons
Test archive totals by year
YearMatBat innsRunsHSAvgSR100s50s4s6sBFBowl innsWktsBowl avgEconBowl SR
198946913415.1681.980012011171821.382.6248.94
19881211410957.0087.69101901302128.002.5466.00
1987351074721.4091.45001411176740.142.7587.42
1983111943810025.76-12-6-164620.892.6846.65
197934214126107.00-11-3-51124.813.7939.27
1978331156138.33-01-1-5648.003.4483.66

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
Home162573431.91-285426.05
Away91434528.75-133523.11
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 West Indies · Wankhede Stadium

  2. Highest recorded innings · 126* runs

    Test v West Indies · Arun Jaitley Stadium

  3. First five-wicket innings in this archive

    Test v West Indies · Arun Jaitley Stadium

  4. Best recorded bowling · 9/83

    Test v West Indies · Narendra Modi Stadium

  5. Latest available scorecard

    Test v West Indies · Sabina Park

Recent recorded innings

Scorecards supporting this opposition study
DateVenueInningsRunsBallsWicketsConceded
1989-04-28Sabina Park4--122
1989-04-28Sabina Park31324--
1989-04-28Sabina Park2--684
1989-04-28Sabina Park12330--
1989-04-15Queen's Park Oval444--
1989-04-15Queen's Park Oval3--558
1989-04-15Queen's Park Oval21624--
1989-04-15Queen's Park Oval1--245
1989-04-07Kensington Oval4--042
1989-04-07Kensington Oval313--
1989-04-07Kensington Oval2--268
1989-04-07Kensington Oval13426--
1989-03-25Bourda1--266
1988-01-11MA Chidambaram Stadium4--08
1988-01-11MA Chidambaram Stadium356--
1988-01-11MA Chidambaram Stadium2--120
1988-01-11MA Chidambaram Stadium1109124--
1987-12-26Eden Gardens3--019
1987-12-26Eden Gardens248--
1987-12-26Eden Gardens1--2103

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.