Indian national cricket team in Pakistan in the 1978/79 season

The tour of the Indian national cricket team to Pakistan in the 1978/79 season took place from October 1 to November 19, 1978. The international cricket tour was part of the 1978/79 international cricket season and included three tests and three ODIs . Pakistan won the Test Series 2–0 and the ODI Series 2–1.

prehistory

It was the first tour of the season for both teams. The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in the 1960/61 season in India .

Stages

Faisalabad Karachi Lahore Quetta (ANS) Sahiwal Sialkot

Tour venues

The following stages have been designated as the venue for the tour.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Iqbal Stadium	Faisalabad	18,000	1st test
National Stadium	Karachi	34,228	3rd test
Gaddafi Stadium	Lahore	60,000	2nd test
Ayub National Stadium	Quetta	20,000	1. ODI
Zafar Ali Stadium	Sahiwal	10,000	3. ODI
Jinnah Stadium	Sialkot	18,000	2. ODI

Squad lists

test		ODI
Pakistan	India	Pakistan	India
Asif Mujtaba Imran Khan Iqbal Qasim Javed Miandad Majid Khan Mudassar Nazar Mushtaq Ahmed Sadiq Mohammad Saleem Altaf Sarfraz Nawaz Sikander Bakht Wasim Bari Zaheer Abbas	Mohinder Amarnath Surinder Amarnath Bishan Bedi Bhagwath Chandrasekhar Rajesh Chauhan Sunil Gavaskar Karsan Ghavri Kapil Dev Syed Kirmani Erapalli Prasanna Dilip Vengsarkar Sadanand Viswanath	Asif Mujtaba Azmat Rana Hasan Raza Imran Khan Iqbal Qasim Javed Miandad Majid Khan Mohsin Kamal Mudassar Nazar Mushtaq Ahmed Sadiq Mohammad Saleem Altaf Sarfraz Nawaz Sikander Bakht Wasim Bari Wasim Raja Zaheer Abbas	Mohinder Amarnath Surinder Amarnath Bishan Bedi Rajesh Chauhan Anshuman Gaekwad Sunil Gavaskar Karsan Ghavri Kapil Dev Syed Kirmani Bharath Reddy Yashpal Sharma Dilip Vengsarkar Srinivas Venkataraghavan Sadanand Viswanath

One-day internationals

First ODI in Quetta

October 1st scorecard	Quetta (ANS)	India 170-7 (40/40)	-	Pakistan 166-8
		India wins with 4 runs

Second ODI in Sialkot

October 13 scorecard	Sialkot (JS)	India 79 (34.2 / 40)	-	Pakistan 83-2 (16.5 / 40)
		Pakistan wins with 8 wickets

Third ODI in Sahiwal

November 3rd scorecard	Sahiwal	Pakistan 205-7 (40/40)	-	India 183-2 (37.4 / 40)
		Pakistan wins by giving up

India refused to continue after a few short balls were not considered wide.

Testing

First test in Faisalabad

October 16-21 Scorecard	Faisalabad	Pakistan 503-8d (152) & 264-4d (71.5)	-	India 462-9d (142.5) & 43-0 (19)
		draw

Second test in Lahore

October 27th - November 1st scorecard	Lahore	India 199 (56.5) & 465 (170.3)	-	Pakistan 539-6d (133) & 128-2 (20.4)
		Pakistan wins with 8 wickets

Third test in Karachi

November 14th - 19th Scorecard	Karachi	India 344 (115.2) & 300 (82)	-	Pakistan 481 (141) & 164-2 (24.5)
		Pakistan wins with 8 wickets

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo