Pakistan toured England for the first time in the 1954 English cricket season and drew the series of four Test matches

Test cricket

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Honours

• County Championship - Surrey
• Minor Counties Championship - Surrey II
• Wisden - Bruce Dooland
  Bruce Dooland
  Bruce Dooland was an Australian cricketer who played in 3 Tests from 1947 to 1948....
  
  , Fazal Mahmood
  Fazal Mahmood
  Fazal Mahmood was a Pakistani cricketer, regarded as the finest pace bowler of his country's early years. He played in 34 Test matches and took 139 wickets at a bowling average of 24.70...
  
  , Eric Hollies
  Eric Hollies
  William Eric Hollies was an English cricketer, who is mainly remembered for taking the wicket of Donald Bradman for a duck in Bradman's final Test match innings, in which only four was needed for a Test average of 100...
  
  , Brian Statham
  Brian Statham
  John Brian "George" Statham, CBE was one of the leading English fast bowlers in 20th-century English cricket. Initially a bowler of a brisk fast-medium pace, Statham was able to remodel his action to generate enough speed to become genuinely fast...
  
  , George Tribe
  George Tribe
  George Edward Tribe was an Australian cricketer who played in 3 Tests from 1946 to 1947, as well as an Australian rules footballer with the Footscray Football Club in the VFL....
  
  

Test series

England could only draw the series with Pakistan 1-1, with the other two matches badly affected by the poor weather of the summer and left drawn. Pakistan won the final Test to square the series thanks to a marvellous seam bowling performance by Fazal Mahmood, who took 6-53 and 6-46 at The Oval

The Oval

The Kia Oval, still commonly referred to by its original name of The Oval, is an international cricket ground in Kennington, in the London Borough of Lambeth. In the past it was also sometimes called the Kennington Oval...

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External sources

• CricketArchive – season summary

Annual reviews

• Playfair Cricket Annual
  Playfair Cricket Annual
  Playfair Cricket Annual is a compact annual about cricket that is published in the United Kingdom each April, just before the English cricket season is due to begin. Its main purposes are to review the previous English season and to provide detailed career records and potted biographies of current...
  
   1955
• Wisden Cricketers Almanack 1955