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The
Third Test at Kolkata
with West Indies in 1948
On the last day of the year, the third test started.
Three changes took place in the Indian team. Mustaq
Ali, Mantu Banerjee and Ghulam Ahmed replaced Rangachari,
Sindhe and Umrigad in the squad. Due to sudden illness
of Fadkar, Sarbate came in place of him. West Indies
too replaced Stolmaire with Caroo. West Indies won
the toss and chose to bat first.
1st innings
Play started by Atkinson and Ray. They accelerated
runs from the beginning. Mantu Banerjee took the
wickets of Ray and Atkinson. Atkinson scored zero.
Ray and Walcot jointly scored 17 and Ray lost his
wicket scoring 15. Wicks scored 162. At the end
of the first day West Indies scored 339 for seven.The
second day was first day of New Year and it was
the day for India. |
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Ghulam and Mantu ended the innings just with 27more runs.
Gordard remained not out at 39. The innings ended with
366. Mantu and Ghulam took four wickets each. India went
for batting their 1st innings. Mustaq and Ibrahim started
the Indian innings well. Ibrahim was bowled by Gomez when
he scored only one run. After lunch, Modi and Mustaq performed
very well. While slashing Godard's ball Mustaq was caught
by Ray. Hazare and Modi were not out till the close of
second day. Indian score was 204 for 2.
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2nd January Kolkata saw a spectacular cricket match.
Gomez took Ibrahim's wicket at the beginning of
the match. Gomez also took the wicket of Hazare
when he was at 59. Modi and Hazare scored 129. Modi
and Hazare scored 206 for the 3rd wicket partnership.
West Indies maintained their attacking attitude.
Gomez took the wicket of Amarnath when his personal
score was only 3. Within half an hour India lost
its 3 valuable wickets and added only 6 runs to
the score board. During nect one hour Adhikari and
Vinu Mankad showed their patience. They added 57
runs. When Indian score was 267, Gordard took the
wicket of Mankad. Farguson took the wickets of Ghulam
Ahmed and Mantu Banerjee. Hemu Adhikari was not
out in 31. The first innings of India ended with
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2nd innings
The second innings of West Indies started by Ray and
Caroo. Mantu took the first wicket at the score of 13.
Farguson came in lieu of Walcot. When the team's score
was 32, Farguson was l.b.w. by Mankad. Ray and Wicks
added a massive score of 104. Then Ray scored 34. Wicks
was not only on the threshold of second century, but
also was in the verge of making world record of five
centuries in the test matches. At the end of the day
Walcot and Wicks were not out and the score of West
Indies was 123 for 3.
On the fourth day of the test match, the performance
of Walcot and Wicks was very ordinary and spiritless.
Gomez and Christiani scored 29 and 22 respectively and
showed a splendid performance. When West Indies score
was 336 for 9, Gordard declared. At this moment to win,
India had to score 411 runs in 415 minutes which was
impossible. So the excitement of the match decreased.
Then target of the both team was not to loose the match.
On 5th day Mustaq scored 106. Amarnath and Hazare were
not out. The match ended with draw.
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1st
innings |
2nd
innings |
| West
Indies |
366 |
336
for 9 |
| India |
272 |
325 for 3 |
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