| Indian cricket team in Australia in 1967–68 | |
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| Date | 23 December 1967 – 31 January 1968 |
| Location |  Australia |
| Result | Australia won the 4-Test series 4–0 |
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The India national cricket team toured Australia in the 1967–68 season and played a four-match Test series against Australia. Australia won the Test series 4–0.
India could not win any first-class matches on the tour either, losing to Western Australia and South Australia, and drawing with Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales. The first-class match against Queensland was abandoned without a ball being bowled.
The Indians went on after this tour to play four Test matches and two other games in New Zealand – see Indian cricket team in New Zealand in 1967-68.
Indian team[edit | edit source]
- Nawab of Pataudi (captain)
- Chandu Borde (vice-captain)
- Syed Abid Ali
- Bishan Bedi
- Bhagwat Chandrasekhar
- Ramakant Desai
- Farokh Engineer
- Indrajitsinhji
- M. L. Jaisimha
- Umesh Kulkarni
- Bapu Nadkarni
- Erapalli Prasanna
- Dilip Sardesai
- Ramesh Saxena
- Venkataraman Subramanya
- Rusi Surti
- Ajit Wadekar
The manager was Ghulam Ahmed.
India's squad of 16 members for the tour of Australia and New Zealand was announced on 8 November 1967. Five changes were made from the side that toured England earlier that year — Subrata Guha, Sadanand Mohol, Budhi Kunderan, Hanumant Singh and S. Venkataraghavan were replaced by Ramakant Desai, Umesh Kulkarni, Indrajitsinhji, Bapu Nadkarni and Syed Abid Ali.[1]
All the players had played Tests before except for Abid Ali and Kulkarni, who made their debuts in the Tests against Australia. Jaisimha was not in the original team, but was added to the side after the Second Test.[2]
Tour games[edit | edit source]
One-day: Western Australia Country v Indians[edit | edit source]
22 November 1967
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Ajit Wadekar 96
John McCormack 1/16 (2 overs) |
Merv Hosking 52
V. Subramanya 3/60 (10 overs) |
- Western Australia Country won the toss and elected to field.
The Western Australia Country side was captained by Merv Hosking who won the toss and sent the Indians to bat first. Ajit Wadekar top-scored for the Indians making 96, which included 16 boundaries. They declared the innings after scoring 259 in almost three hours. In reply, Western Australia Country ended at 5/189 at stumps. Hosking and Barry Pascoe put together 88 runs for the first wicket.[3]
Test series[edit | edit source]
First Test[edit | edit source]
23–28 December 1967
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- Australia won the toss and decided to bat.
- Paul Sheahan and John Gleeson (both Aus), and Syed Abid Ali and Umesh Kulkarni (both Ind) all made their debut in Tests.
- 24 December was a rest day.
Second Test[edit | edit source]
Third Test[edit | edit source]
19–24 January 1968
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- India won the toss and decided to field.
- Eric Freeman (Aus) made his Test debut.
Fourth Test[edit | edit source]
26–31 January 1968
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- India won the toss and decided to field.
- Les Joslin (Aus) made his Test debut.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ "Young Indian cricket touring team named". The Canberra Times. AAP-Reuters. 9 November 1967. p. 44. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
- ↑ Wisden 1969, p. 837.
- ↑ "Indian cricketers draw first match". The Canberra Times. 23 November 1967. p. 40. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
Annual reviews[edit | edit source]
Further reading[edit | edit source]
- Bill Frindall, The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877-1978, Wisden, 1979
- Chris Harte, A History of Australian Cricket, Andre Deutsch, 1993
- Ray Robinson, On Top Down Under, Cassell, 1975
- Ramachandra Guha, A Corner of a Foreign Field - An Indian History of a British Sport, Picador, 2001
External links[edit | edit source]
- Tour home at ESPNcricinfo
- India in Australia and New Zealand 1967/68 at CricketArchive (subscription required)