WSC Australia v WSC World XI at Geelong, Dec 31, 1977 - Jan 2, 1978

World Series Cricket Country Cup WSC Australia v WSC World XI

1977/78 season

Played at Kardinia Park, Geelong, on 31 December 1977,1,2 January 1978 (115-over, 3-day match, 2-innings per side) Result WSC World XI won by 129 runs

	WSC World XI 1st innings (40 overs maximum)			R
		BA Richards	c Robinson b Pascoe	4
		DL Amiss	b Pascoe	76
		Zaheer Abbas	c Gilmour b Malone	26
		Mushtaq Mohammad	c Robinson b O'Keeffe	20
		Asif Iqbal	c & b Walters	58
		AW Greig	c Chappell b O'Keeffe	17
		APE Knott	run out	36
		Imran Khan	c Gilmour b Walters	4
		MJ Procter	c Gilmour b Walters	0
		JA Snow	not out	1
		DL Underwood	c Chappell b Walters	0
		Extras	(lb 4, nb 9)	13
		Total	(all out; 39.6 overs)	255	(4.81 runs per 6 balls)

Fall of wickets1-4, 2-52, 3-92, 4-159, 5-199, 6-235, 7-239, 8-239, 9-255, 10-255

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	LS Pascoe	8	0	51	2	4.78
	MF Malone	8	2	31	1	2.90
	GJ Gilmour	6	0	19	0	2.37
	KD Walters	3.6	0	52	4	10.40
	GD McKenzie	6	1	37	0	4.62
	KJ O'Keeffe	8	0	52	2	4.87

	WSC Australia 1st innings (40 overs maximum)			R
		TM Chappell	c & b Asif Iqbal	18
		IC Davis	c Richards b Imran Khan	14
		R Edwards	b Underwood	64
		KD Walters	c Mushtaq Mohammad b Snow	62
		RD Robinson	c Procter b Underwood	23
		GJ Gilmour	c Zaheer Abbas b Underwood	8
		KJ O'Keeffe	run out	34
		DB Yagmich	not out	16
		MF Malone	not out	2
		Extras	(b 3, lb 3)	6
		Total	(7 wickets; 40 overs)	247	(4.63 runs per 6 balls)

Did not bat GD McKenzie, LS Pascoe

Fall of wickets1-23, 2-39, 3-114, 4-162, 5-190, 6-196, 7-245

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	Imran Khan	8	0	42	1	3.93
	MJ Procter	8	1	30	0	2.81
	JA Snow	8	0	55	1	5.15
	Asif Iqbal	2	0	16	1	6.00
	AW Greig	6	0	43	0	5.37
	DL Underwood	8	0	55	3	5.15

	WSC World XI 2nd innings (75 overs maximum)			R
		BA Richards	c Malone b O'Keeffe	77
		DL Amiss	c Robinson b Pascoe	0
		Zaheer Abbas	c Gilmour b Pascoe	0
		Mushtaq Mohammad	c Robinson b Pascoe	13
		Asif Iqbal	c Robinson b Gilmour	20
		AW Greig	b Pascoe	24
		APE Knott	b Walters	68
		Imran Khan	c & b Malone	44
		MJ Procter	b Walters	15
		JA Snow	c & b Walters	14
		DL Underwood	not out	16
		Extras	(lb 5, nb 5)	10
		Total	(all out; 72.5 overs)	301	(3.10 runs per 6 balls)

Fall of wickets1-1, 2-1, 3-34, 4-67, 5-102, 6-161, 7-252, 8-269, 9-273, 10-301

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	LS Pascoe	12	1	53	4	3.31
	GJ Gilmour	11	0	44	1	3.00
	MF Malone	15	0	55	1	2.75
	GD McKenzie	11	0	41	0	2.79
	KJ O'Keeffe	15	0	54	1	2.70
	KD Walters	8.5	0	44	3	3.82

	WSC Australia 2nd innings (target: 310 runs from 75 overs)			R
		TM Chappell	c Knott b Imran Khan	2
		GJ Gilmour	c Zaheer Abbas b Procter	4
		R Edwards	lbw b Procter	3
		KD Walters	c Procter b Greig	34
		RD Robinson	run out	19
		KJ O'Keeffe	c Asif Iqbal b Underwood	56
		DB Yagmich	lbw b Snow	14
		MF Malone	c Knott b Imran Khan	31
		GD McKenzie	not out	8
		LS Pascoe	b Underwood	3
		IC Davis	absent ill	-
		Extras	(lb 6)	6
		Total	(all out; 39.1 overs)	180	(3.45 runs per 6 balls)

Fall of wickets1-5, 2-9, 3-9, 4-42, 5-68, 6-103, 7-163, 8-171, 9-180

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	Imran Khan	12	0	48	2	3.00
	MJ Procter	5	1	23	2	3.45
	AW Greig	8	0	32	1	3.00
	JA Snow	8	0	42	1	3.93
	Mushtaq Mohammad	5	0	27	0	4.05
	DL Underwood	1.1	0	2	2	1.33

Balls per over 8

Toss Unknown
Points WSC World XI 2, WSC Australia 0

Umpires Unknown

Close of play
31 Dec day 1 - unknown
1 Jan day 2 - unknown
2 Jan day 3 - WSC Australia 2nd innings 180 (39.1 ov) - end of match