West Indian cricket team in India, Pakistan and Ceylon in 1948–49

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West Indies cricket team in India in 1948-49
Date19 October 1948 – 3 March 1949
LocationIndia India
ResultWest Indies won the 5-Test series 1-0
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The West Indies cricket team toured India, Pakistan and Ceylon from October 1948 to March 1949 and played a five-match Test series against the India national cricket team. West Indies won the Test series 1–0 with four matches being drawn. The West Indians played three matches in Pakistan in November and four matches in Ceylon in February.[1]

The team[edit | edit source]

The manager was Donald Lacy, who was the Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the West Indies Cricket Board of Control.

Frank Worrell was in dispute with the West Indies Cricket Board of Control and was not selected. Hines Johnson, who had led the attack against England in 1947–48, was unavailable for business reasons.[2]

India[edit | edit source]

1st Test[edit | edit source]

10–14 November 1948
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631 (183.4 overs)
Clyde Walcott 152
C. R. Rangachari 5/107 (29.4 overs)
454 (158.4 overs)
Hemu Adhikari 114
Prior Jones 3/90 (28.4 overs)
220/6 (f/o) (102 overs)
Khanmohammad Ibrahim 44
Robert Christiani 3/52 (23 overs)
  • West Indies won the toss and decided to bat

2nd Test[edit | edit source]

9–13 December 1948
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629/6 d. (206 overs)
Everton Weekes 194
Vinoo Mankad 3/202 (75 overs)
273 (142.2 overs)
Dattu Phadkar 74
Wilfred Ferguson 4/126 (57 overs)
333/3 (132 overs)
Vijay Hazare 134*
Prior Jones 1/52 (12 overs)
  • West Indies won the toss and decided to bat

3rd Test[edit | edit source]

31 Dec 1948 - 4 Jan 1949
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366 (115.2 overs)
Everton Weekes 162
Ghulam Ahmed 4/94 (35.2 overs)
272 (109 overs)
Rusi Modi 80
John Goddard 3/34 (13 overs)
336/9 d. (105.3 overs)
Clyde Walcott 108
Vinoo Mankad 3/68 (24.3 overs)
325/3 (136 overs)
Mushtaq Ali 106
John Goddard 1/41 (23 overs)
  • West Indies won the toss and decided to bat

4th Test[edit | edit source]

27–31 January 1949
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582 (176.3 overs)
Jeffrey Stollmeyer 160
Dattu Phadkar 7/159 (45.3 overs)
245 (99 overs)
Rusi Modi 56
John Trim 4/48 (27 overs)
144 (63.3 overs)
Vijay Hazare 52
Prior Jones 4/30 (10 overs)
  • West Indies won the toss and decided to bat

5th Test[edit | edit source]

4–8 February 1949
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286 (104.2 overs)
Jeffrey Stollmeyer 85
Dattu Phadkar 4/74 (29.2 overs)
193 (88.4 overs)
Vijay Hazare 40
John Trim 3/69 (30 overs)
267 (107.3 overs)
Allan Rae 97
Shute Banerjee 4/54 (24.3 overs)
355/8 (107 overs)
Vijay Hazare 122
Prior Jones 5/85 (41 overs)
  • West Indies won the toss and decided to bat

Pakistan[edit | edit source]

In the first international tour of Pakistan by an overseas team, West Indies played two first-class matches versus Sind at Karachi and a Pakistan XI at Lahore. Both matches were drawn.[3][4]

First Match[edit | edit source]

19–21 November 1948
[1]
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173 (80.0 overs)
Peter Fernandes 32
Jimmy Cameron 4/52 (31.0 overs)
283 (81.0 overs)
George Carew 100
Anwar Hussain 4/66 (25.0 overs)
284 (86.1 overs)
Anwar Hussain 81
Denis Atkinson 2/38 (13.0 overs)
61 (18.0 overs)
Jeffrey Stollmeyer 36
Munawwar Ali Khan 1/13 (6.0 overs)
  • Sind won the toss and decided to bat

Second Match[edit | edit source]

23–24 November 1948
[2]
NWFP Commander-in-Chief's XI
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85 (41.3 overs)
Ahmed Raza 34
Jeffrey Stollmeyer 3/8 (3.3 overs)
169 (47.4 overs)
George Carew 40
Miran Bakhsh 5/61 (17.0 overs)
173 (60.5 overs)
Maqsood Ahmed 39
George Headley 6/49 (22.5 overs)
90 (26.2 overs)
Clyde Walcott 51
Khan Mohammad 1/30 (9.2 overs)
  • NWFP Commander-in-Chief's XI won the toss and decided to bat

Ceylon[edit | edit source]

The West Indians visited Ceylon in February and played two first-class matches versus Ceylon. West Indies won the first match at Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium in Colombo by an innings and 22 runs after scoring 462 for two declared with centuries by Allan Rae, Everton Weekes and Clyde Walcott. Prior Jones took ten wickets in the match. The second match at the same venue was drawn, Rae making another century for West Indies.

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ "West Indies in India, Pakistan and Ceylon 1948–49". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  2. ↑ "West Indies to India 1948-49". Test Cricket Tours. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  3. ↑ "Sind v West Indians 1948". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  4. ↑ "Pakistan v West Indians 1948". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 July 2014.

External links[edit | edit source]

Further reading[edit | edit source]

  • Jeffrey Stollmeyer, Jeffrey Stollmeyer's Diary: West Indies in India 1948-194, Royards, Macoya (Trinidad), 2004
  • R. W. Thick, "West Indies in India, 1948-49", Wisden 1950, pp. 795–821
  • Michael Manley, A History of West Indies Cricket, Andre Deutsch, London, 1988, pp. 73–78

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