| f33487 | |
| Venue | Carisbrook, Dunedin on 28th February, 1st, 2nd March 1981 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Otago won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Indians won by an innings and 14 runs |
| Umpires | GC Morris, NF Tapper |
| Close of play day 1 | Indians (1) 88/1 (Chauhan 26*, Gavaskar 12*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Otago (2) 60/6 (Blakely 31*, Bracewell 1*) |
| Otago first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| IA Rutherford | lbw b Yograj Singh | 31 | |||||
| GAW Blakely | c Reddy b Yograj Singh | 4 | |||||
| RN Hoskin | c and b Azad | 16 | |||||
| WL Blair | b Azad | 10 | |||||
| BR Blair | c Binny b Azad | 65 | 92 | 4 | 3 | ||
| GJ Dawson | c Yashpal Sharma b Azad | 6 | |||||
| *+WK Lees | c Chauhan b Shastri | 0 | |||||
| JG Bracewell | not out | 35 | |||||
| BJ McKechnie | b Shastri | 0 | |||||
| DJ Walker | st Reddy b Azad | 1 | |||||
| SL Boock | lbw b Azad | 4 | |||||
| Extras | (3 b, 6 lb, 6 nb) | 15 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 78 overs) | 187 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-16, 2-41, 3-63, 4-75, 5-124, 6-125, 7-149, 8-151, 9-161, 10-187 (78 ov) | |||||||
| Indians bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Kapil Dev | 5 | 2 | 8 | 0 | - | - |
| Yograj Singh | 9 | 2 | 24 | 2 | - | - |
| Binny | 6 | 1 | 13 | 0 | - | - |
| Yashpal Sharma | 5 | 1 | 7 | 0 | - | - |
| Shastri | 27 | 6 | 70 | 2 | - | - |
| Azad | 26 | 8 | 50 | 6 | - | - |
| Indians first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| TE Srinivasan | b Bracewell | 38 | |||||
| CPS Chauhan | c Hoskin b Boock | 83 | |||||
| *SM Gavaskar | c Blakely b Boock | 24 | |||||
| GR Viswanath | st Lees b Bracewell | 1 | |||||
| Yashpal Sharma | c Hoskin b Bracewell | 89 | 136 | 9 | 3 | ||
| KBJ Azad | b Bracewell | 20 | |||||
| Kapil Dev | b Bracewell | 2 | |||||
| RMH Binny | c Blakely b Boock | 30 | |||||
| RJ Shastri | c WL Blair b Bracewell | 3 | |||||
| +B Reddy | c and b Bracewell | 1 | |||||
| Yograj Singh | not out | 6 | |||||
| Extras | (14 b, 6 lb, 1 nb) | 21 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 99.2 overs) | 318 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-71, 2-106, 3-119, 4-224, 5-255, 6-261, 7-298, 8-311, 9-317, 10-318 (99.2 ov) | |||||||
| Otago bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| BR Blair | 4 | 0 | 29 | 0 | - | - |
| Walker | 4 | 1 | 13 | 0 | - | - |
| McKechnie | 6 | 0 | 12 | 0 | - | - |
| Boock | 45 | 20 | 88 | 3 | - | - |
| Bracewell | 40.2 | 9 | 155 | 7 | - | - |
| Otago second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| IA Rutherford | lbw b Yograj Singh | 5 | |||||
| GAW Blakely | b Shastri | 33 | |||||
| RN Hoskin | c sub (DB Vengsarkar) b Shastri | 5 | |||||
| WL Blair | c and b Azad | 6 | |||||
| GJ Dawson | c Viswanath b Shastri | 2 | |||||
| BR Blair | c Binny b Shastri | 8 | |||||
| *+WK Lees | c and b Chauhan | 0 | |||||
| JG Bracewell | lbw b Shastri | 21 | |||||
| BJ McKechnie | b Kapil Dev | 9 | |||||
| DJ Walker | b Kapil Dev | 2 | |||||
| SL Boock | not out | 19 | |||||
| Extras | (1 b, 3 lb, 3 nb) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 64 overs) | 117 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-16, 2-23, 3-33, 4-41, 5-57, 6-58, 7-64, 8-86, 9-88, 10-117 (64 ov) | |||||||
| Indians bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Kapil Dev | 13 | 2 | 25 | 2 | - | - |
| Yograj Singh | 4 | 0 | 16 | 1 | - | - |
| Binny | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | - | - |
| Shastri | 22 | 12 | 21 | 5 | - | - |
| Azad | 19 | 9 | 37 | 1 | - | - |
| Chauhan | 3 | 0 | 8 | 1 | - | - |