The Indian cricket team

Indian cricket team

The Indian cricket team is the national cricket team of India. Governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , it is a full member of the International Cricket Council with Test and One Day International status....

toured England in the 1952 season

1952 English cricket season

The 1952 English cricket season saw the beginning of Surrey's period of dominance as they won the first of seven successive County Championships.-Honours:*County Championship - Surrey*Minor Counties Championship - Buckinghamshire...

. The team played four Test matches

Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

, losing three of them and drawing the other one. In all first-class matches

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

, they played 29, winning four and losing five, with the rest drawn.

The Indian team

There were 17 players in the original touring team, and Vinoo Mankad was co-opted from the Lancashire League team Haslingden

Haslingden

Haslingden is a small town in Rossendale, Lancashire, England. It is north of Manchester. The name means 'valley of the hazels', though the town is in fact set on a high and windy hill. In the early 20th century Haslingden had the status of a municipal borough, but following local government...

 for three of the four Test matches. The side was captained by Vijay Hazare

Vijay Hazare

Vijay Samuel Hazare was an Indian cricket player from the state of Maharashtra. He captained the Indian cricket team in 14 matches between 1951 and 1953...

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First Test, Leeds

Headingley Stadium

Headingley Stadium is a sporting complex in the Leeds suburb of Headingley in West Yorkshire, England. It is the home of Yorkshire County Cricket Club, rugby league team Leeds Rhinos and rugby union team Leeds Carnegie ....

, June 5–9, 1952

India (293 and 165) lost to England (334 and 128 for three) by seven wickets – scorecard

Second Test, Lord's, June 19–24, 1952

India (235 and 378) lost to England (537 and 79 for two) by eight wickets – scorecard

Third Test, Manchester

Old Trafford (cricket)

Old Trafford is a cricket ground situated on Talbot Road in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester. It has been the home of Lancashire County Cricket Club since its foundation in 1864, having been the ground of Manchester Cricket Club from 1857...

, July 17–19, 1952

England (347 for nine declared) beat India (58 and 82) by an innings and 207 runs – scorecard

Fourth Test, 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...

, August 14–19, 1952

England (326 for six declared) drew with India (98) – scorecard

External sources

• CricketArchive

Further reading

• Ramachandra Guha
  Ramachandra Guha
  Ramachandra Guha is an Indian writer whose research interests have included environmental, social, political and cricket history. He is also a columnist for the newspapers The Telegraph , and The Hindustan Times.-Early life and education:Born in Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand, India in 1958, Guha studied...
  
  , A Corner of a Foreign Field - An Indian History of a British Sport, Picador, 2001