1980–81 Australia Tri-Nation Series

September 2017September 2017 October 2017 October 2017 1980–81 World Series 23 November 1980 – 3 February 1981 Australia Won by AUS3–1 in final series AUS IND NZL Greg Chappell Sunil Gavaskar Geoff Howarth Greg Chappell (686) Dilip Vengsarkar (221) John Wright (511) Dennis Lillee (25) Dilip Doshi (15) Martin Snedden (17) 1979–80 1981–82 The 1980–81 Australia Tri-Nation Series (more commonly known as the 1980–81 World Series) was a cricket tournament held in Australia from 23 November 1980 to 3 February 1981. It was the second edition of the Australian Tri-Series, with Australia playing host to India and New Zealand. The series was a part of the Indian and New Zealand tours. After matches were played in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Perth throughout the entire group-stage, Australia and New Zealand qualified for the finals where after the underarm incident in the third final, Australia went on to win 3–1. Uniforms Australia _greenborder _thingreensides _greenborder FFFE00 FFFE00 FFFE00 FFFE00 Australia Kit India _yellowborder _thinyellowsides _yellowborder 86D1FD 86D1FD 86D1FD 86D1FD India Kit New Zealand _blackborder _thinblacksides _blackborder C8AD7F C8AD7F C8AD7F C8AD7F New Zealand Kit Points Table Team P Played W Won L Lost T Tied NR No result Pts Points RR Run rateAUS 10 6 3 0 1 13 4.259NZ 10 5 4 0 1 11 4.109IND 10 3 7 0 0 6 3.947 Fixtures 23 November 1980 AUS NZ 217/9 (50 overs) John Dyson 69 (120) Ewen Chatfield 5/34 (10 overs) 219/7 (49.1 overs) John Wright 60 (128) Dennis Lillee 3/40 (10 overs) New Zealand won by 3 wickets Scorecard Adelaide Oval, Adelaide Tony Crafter (Aus) and Peter Cronin (Aus) New Zealand won the toss and elected to field. Ewen Chatfield (NZ) Shaun Graf, Trevor Chappell, Geoff Lawson (Aus) and Martin Snedden (NZ) all made their ODI debuts. 25 November 1980 AUS NZ 289/3 (50 overs) Greg Chappell 138* (109) Paul McEwan 1/51 (10 overs) 195 (42.5 overs) Geoff Howarth 46 (76) Len Pascoe 5/30 (7.5 overs) Australia won by 94 runs Scorecard Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Robin Bailhache (Aus) and Mel Johnson (Aus) Australia won the toss and elected to bat. Greg Chappell (Aus) Ian Smith (NZ) made his ODI debut. 6 December 1980 IND AUS 208/9 (49 overs) Sandeep Patil 64 (70) Dennis Lillee 2/22 (7 overs) 142 (42.1 overs) Kim Hughes 35 (53) Dilip Doshi 3/32 (10 overs) India won by 66 runs Scorecard Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Max O'Connell (Aus) and Rex Whitehead (Aus) Australia won the toss and elected to field. Sandeep Patil (Ind) Tirumalai Srinivasan, Kirti Azad, Sandeep Patil, Roger Binny and Dilip Doshi (Ind) all made their ODI debuts. 7 December 1980 NZ AUS 156 (49.5 overs) John Wright 57 (119) Len Pascoe 4/37 (9.5 overs) 159/6 (47.2 overs) Greg Chappell 48 (70) Stephen Boock 2/30 (10 overs) Australia won by 4 wickets Scorecard Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Dick French (Aus) and Robin Bailhache (Aus) New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat. Allan Border (Aus) 9 December 1980 IND NZ 162 (47.4 overs) Sandeep Patil 39 (73) Richard Hadlee 5/32 (9 overs) 157 (49.5 overs) Paul McEwan 41 (76) Roger Binny 4/41 (9.5 overs) India won by 5 runs Scorecard WACA Ground, Perth Tony Crafter (Aus) and Donald Weser (Aus) India won the toss and elected to bat. Richard Hadlee (NZ) 18 December 1980 Y IND AUS 180/9 (49 overs) Gundappa Viswanath 43 (80) Shaun Graf 2/23 (10 overs) 183/1 (42.2 overs) Allan Border 105* (122) Kapil Dev 1/27 (8 overs) Australia won by 9 wickets Scorecard Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Dick French (Aus) and Rex Whitehead (Aus) Australia won the toss and elected to field. Allan Border (Aus) 21 December 1980 IND NZ 204 (48.5 overs) Kapil Dev 75 (51) Gary Troup 4/19 (9 overs) 205/7 (48.4 overs) Jeremy Coney 47* (52) Dilip Doshi 4/30 (10 overs) New Zealand won by 3 wickets Scorecard The Gabba, Brisbane Dick French (Aus) and Mel Johnson (Aus) India won the toss and elected to bat. Kapil Dev (Ind) Yograj Singh (Ind) made his ODI debut. 23 December 1980 IND NZ 230/7 (50 overs) Yashpal Sharma 72 (105) Martin Snedden 3/30 (10 overs) 224 (49.3 overs) Jeremy Coney 49* (63) Dilip Doshi 2/34 (10 overs)Kapil Dev 2/34 (9.3 overs) India won by 6 runs Scorecard Adelaide Oval, Adelaide Tony Crafter (Aus) and Max O'Connell (Aus) India won the toss and elected to bat. Yashpal Sharma (Ind) 8 January 1981 IND AUS 63 (25.5 overs) Gundappa Viswanath 23 (22) Greg Chappell 5/15 (9.5 overs) 64/1 (21 overs) Greg Chappell 33* (48) Kapil Dev 1/15 (9 overs) Australia won by 9 wickets Scorecard Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Max O'Connell (Aus) and Donald Weser (Aus) Australia won the toss and elected to field. Greg Chappell (Aus) 10 January 1981 IND NZ 112/9 (34 overs) Gundappa Viswanath 33 (52) Martin Snedden 2/16 (5 overs) 113/0 (29 overs) Bruce Edgar 65* (89) New Zealand won by 10 wickets Scorecard Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Robin Bailhache (Aus) and Rex Whitehead (Aus) New Zealand won the toss and elected to field. Bruce Edgar (NZ) Match was reduced to 34 overs per side due to rain. 11 January 1981 IND AUS 192/5 (50 overs) Sunil Gavaskar 80 (142) Greg Chappell 2/23 (10 overs) 193/3 (47.2 overs) Graeme Wood 98* (155) Dilip Doshi 1/38 (10 overs) Australia won by 7 wickets Scorecard Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Dick French (Aus) and Peter Cronin (Aus) Australia won the toss and elected to field. Graeme Wood (Aus) 13 January 1981 NZ AUS 220/8 (50 overs) John Wright 78 (135) Len Pascoe 3/37 (10 overs) 219/7 (50 overs) Doug Walters 50* (72) Ewen Chatfield 1/26 (10 overs) New Zealand won by 1 run Scorecard Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Donald Weser (Aus) and Mel Johnson (Aus) New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat. John Wright (NZ) 15 January 1981 AUS IND 242/8 (50 overs) Allan Border 85 (131) Sandeep Patil 2/34 (10 overs) 215/8 (50 overs) Dilip Vengsarkar 52 (74) Dennis Lillee 4/32 (10 overs) Australia won by 27 runs Scorecard Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Donald Weser (Aus) and Rex Whitehead (Aus) India won the toss and elected to field. Allan Border (Aus) 18 January 1981 NZ IND 242/9 (50 overs) Jeremy Coney 49 (58) Kapil Dev 3/37 (10 overs) 220 (48.1 overs) Dilip Vengsarkar 66 (77) Jeremy Coney 3/28 (10 overs) New Zealand won by 22 runs Scorecard The Gabba, Brisbane Peter Cronin (Aus) and Mel Johnson (Aus) India won the toss and elected to field. Jeremy Coney (NZ) 21 January 1981 AUS NZ 180 (43.1 overs) Greg Chappell 74 (80) Paul McEwan 2/29 (5 overs) 23/1 (8 overs) John Wright 8 (33) Greg Chappell 1/1 (1 over) No result Scorecard Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Dick French (Aus) and Max O'Connell (Aus) Australia won the toss and elected to bat. Rain during New Zealand's innings prevented any further play. Final series 1st Final 29 January 1981 Y NZ AUS 233/6 (50 overs) John Wright 81 (111) Dennis Lillee 2/47 (10 overs) 155 (39.3 overs) Allan Border 55 (74) Richard Hadlee 5/26 (8.3 overs) New Zealand won by 78 runs Scorecard Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Robin Bailhache (Aus) and Mel Johnson (Aus) Australia won the toss and elected to field. Martin Kent (Aus) made his ODI debut. 2nd Final 31 January 1981 NZ AUS 126 (46.4 overs) Bruce Edgar 28 (56) Graeme Beard 2/20 (8.4 overs) 130/3 (39.3 overs) Greg Chappell 58* (87) Geoff Howarth 1/13 (4 overs) Australia won by 7 wickets Scorecard Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Dick French (Aus) and Donald Weser (Aus) Australia won the toss and elected to field. Graeme Beard (Aus) made his ODI debut. 3rd Final 1 February 1981 AUS NZ 235/4 (50 overs) Greg Chappell 90 (122) Martin Snedden 2/52 (10 overs) 229/8 (50 overs) Bruce Edgar 102* (141) Greg Chappell 3/43 (10 overs) Australia won by 6 runs Scorecard Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Peter Cronin (Aus) and Donald Weser (Aus) Australia won the toss and elected to bat. The match concluded with a controversial underarm delivery. 4th Final 3 February 1981 Y NZ AUS 215/8 (50 overs) John Wright 57 (88) Dennis Lillee 3/27 (10 overs) 218/4 (47.4 overs) Greg Chappell 87 (102) Martin Snedden 3/27 (9 overs) Australia won by 6 wickets Scorecard Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Tony Crafter (Aus) and Robin Bailhache (Aus) New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat. Greg Chappell (Aus) With the result of this match, Australia won the 1980-81 Benson & Hedges World Series Cup. References Category:1980 in Australian cricket Category:1980 in Indian cricket Category:1980 in New Zealand Category:1980–81 Australian cricket season Category:1981 in Australian cricket Category:1981 in Indian cricket Category:1981 in New Zealand 1980 1980–81 Category:International cricket competitions from 1980–81 to 1985 1980–81