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

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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]

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
Teams
 India  West Indies
Captains
Lala Amarnath John Goddard
Most runs
Rusi Modi (560)
Vijay Hazare (543)
Lala Amarnath (294)		 Everton Weekes (779)
Clyde Walcott (452)
Allan Rae (374)
Most wickets
Vinoo Mankad (17)
Dattu Phadkar (14)
Ghulam Ahmed (8)		 Prior Jones (17)
Gerry Gomez (16)
John Trim (10)
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The team

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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

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1st Test

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10–14 November 1948
scorecard
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  India
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
Prior Jones 0/32 (10 overs)
Match drawn
Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Umpires: DK Naik, JR Patel
  • West Indies won the toss and decided to bat

2nd Test

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9–13 December 1948
scorecard
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  India
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

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31 Dec 1948 - 4 Jan 1949
scorecard
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  India
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)
Match drawn
Eden Gardens, Calcutta
Umpires: AR Joshi, BJ Mohoni
  • West Indies won the toss and decided to bat

4th Test

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27–31 January 1949
scorecard
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  India
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 by an innings and 193 runs
Madras Cricket Club Ground, Chepauk, Madras
Umpires: AR Joshi, BJ Mohoni
  • West Indies won the toss and decided to bat

5th Test

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4–8 February 1949
scorecard
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  India
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

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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

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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)
Match drawn
Karachi Gymkhana Ground, Karachi
Umpires: Daud Khan, Naoomal Jaoomal
  • Sind won the toss and decided to bat

Second Match

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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)
West Indians won by 9 wickets
Peshawar Club Ground, Peshawar
  • NWFP Commander-in-Chief's XI won the toss and decided to bat

Ceylon

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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

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  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.
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Further reading

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  • 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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