Indian cricket team in England in 1967

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Indian cricket team in England in 1967

Date| 29 April – 23 July 1967
Location| England
Result| England won the series 3–0
| Teams

England|  India
Captains
Brian Close|  MAK Pataudi
Most runs
Ken Barrington (324)|  MAK Pataudi (269)
Most wickets
Ray Illingworth (20)|  BS Chandrasekhar (16)

The Indian cricket team toured England in the 1967 season and played 18 first-class fixtures, winning only two, losing 7 and drawing 9.

India played three Test matches and lost the series to England 3–0. The Indian team was captained by Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, while Brian Close led the England side. England won the First Test by 6 wickets at Headingley; the Second at Lord's by an innings and 124 runs; and the Third at Edgbaston by 132 runs.

## Test series

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### First Test

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8–13 June 1967
Scorecard

England

India

|
|

550/4d (183 overs)
Geoff Boycott 246 (555)
BS Chandrasekhar 2/121 (45 overs)

|  |

164 (87.2 overs)
MAK Pataudi 64 (206)
Ray Illingworth 3/31 (22 overs)

126/4 (47.3 overs)
Ken Barrington 46 (106)
BS Chandrasekhar 3/50 (19 overs)

|  |

510 (209.2 overs)
MAK Pataudi 148 (348)
Ray Illingworth 4/100 (58 overs)

England won by 6 wickets
Headingley, Leeds
Umpires: Charlie Elliott (Eng) and Hugo Yarnold (Eng)

* England won the toss and elected to bat.
* Robin Hobbs (Eng), and Subrata Guha and Ramesh Saxena (Ind) made their Test debuts.
* Basil D'Oliveira (Eng) scored his first century in Tests.[1]
* Geoff Boycott's (Eng) 246 was the highest score for any batsman in Tests between India and England.[2]
* 11 June was a rest day.
* BS Chandrasekhar (Ind) claimed his 50th wicket in Tests.[1]

### Second Test

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22–26 June 1967
Scorecard

India

England

|
|

152 (55.4 overs)
Ajit Wadekar 57 (97)
John Snow 3/49 (20.4 overs)

|  |

386 (154.2 overs)
Tom Graveney 151 (308)
Bhagwat Chandrasekhar 5/127 (53 overs)

110 (56.3 overs)
Budhi Kunderan 47 (164)
Ray Illingworth 6/29 (22.3 overs)

|  |

England won by an innings and 124 runs
Lord's, London
Umpires: Syd Buller (Eng) and Arthur Jepson (Eng)

* India won the toss and elected to bat.
* 25 June was a rest day.
* John Murray (Eng) equalled the record for most catches by a wicket-keeper in an innings in Tests (6),[3] before Wasim Bari took 7 in 1979.[4]
* Ray Illingworth (Eng) claimed his first five-wicket haul in Tests.[5]

### Third Test

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13–15 July 1967
Scorecard

England

India

|
|

298 (106 overs)
John Murray 77 (145)
Erapalli Prasanna 3/51 (20 overs)

|  |

92 (36.3 overs)
Farokh Engineer 23 (45)
David Brown 3/17 (11 overs)

203 (76.5 overs)
Brian Close 47 (85)
Erapalli Prasanna 4/60 (24 overs)

|  |

277 (112.4 overs)
Ajit Wadekar 70 (214)
Brian Close 4/68 (21.4 overs)

England won by 132 runs
Edgbaston, Birmingham
Umpires: Arthur Fagg (Eng) and Fred Price (Eng)

* England won the toss and elected to bat.
* India's 92 in the first innings was their lowest total in a Test innings in 15 years.[6]
* Ray Illingworth (Eng) claimed his 50th wicket in Tests.[7]

## References

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1. ^ a b "India in British Isles 1967 (1st Test)". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
2. ^ Preston, Norman. "First Test, England v India". Wisden. ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 26 September 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
3. ^ Preston, Norman. "Second Test, England v India". Wisden. ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
4. ^ "Third Test Match, New Zealand v Pakistan". Wisden. ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 6 November 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
5. ^ "India in British Isles 1967 (2nd Test)". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
6. ^ "Third Test, England v India 1967". Wisden. ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 2 January 2011. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
7. ^ "India in British Isles 1967 (3rd Test)". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 14 February 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2018.

## Annual reviews

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* Playfair Cricket Annual 1968
* Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1968

## Further reading

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* Bill Frindall, The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877-1978, Wisden, 1979
* Guha, Ramachandra (2002). A Corner of a Foreign Field. Picador. ISBN 9780330491167.

## External links

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* Tour home at ESPNcricinfo archive
* India in British Isles 1967 at CricketArchive (subscription required)
* India to England 1967 at test-cricket-tours.co.uk

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