Indian cricket team in Australia in 1967–68
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Teams | |||||||||||||
Australia | India | ||||||||||||
Captains | |||||||||||||
Bob Simpson Bill Lawry |
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi Chandu Borde | ||||||||||||
Most runs | |||||||||||||
Bob Cowper (485) | Rusi Surti (367) | ||||||||||||
Most wickets | |||||||||||||
Bob Simpson (15) | E. A. S. Prasanna (25) | ||||||||||||
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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.
In all first-class matches, the Indians lost to Western Australia and South Australia, and drew 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
- Nawab of Pataudi (captain)
- Chandu Borde (vice-captain)
- Syed Abid Ali
- Bishan Bedi
- Bhagwat Chandrasekhar
- Ramakant Desai
- Farokh Engineer
- Kumar 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.
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.[1]
Series summary
First Series
Second Test
Third Test
Fourth Test
References
Annual reviews
Further reading
- 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
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