West Indian cricket team in India, Pakistan and Ceylon in 1948–49
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| Date | 19 October 1948 – 3 March 1949 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location |  India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Result | West Indies won the 5-Test series 1-0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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]
The team
[edit]- John Goddard (captain)
- Gerry Gomez (vice-captain)
- Denis Atkinson
- Jimmy Cameron
- George Carew
- Robert Christiani
- Wilfred Ferguson
- George Headley
- Prior Jones
- Cliff McWatt
- Allan Rae
- Ken Rickards
- Jeffrey Stollmeyer
- John Trim
- Clyde Walcott
- Everton Weekes
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
[edit]1st Test
[edit]2nd Test
[edit]3rd Test
[edit]4th Test
[edit]5th Test
[edit]Pakistan
[edit]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
[edit]Second Match
[edit]23–24 November 1948
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NWFP Commander-in-Chief's XI
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- NWFP Commander-in-Chief's XI won the toss and decided to bat
Ceylon
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ "West Indies in India, Pakistan and Ceylon 1948–49". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
- ^ "West Indies to India 1948-49". Test Cricket Tours. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
- ^ "Sind v West Indians 1948". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
- ^ "Pakistan v West Indians 1948". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
External links
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- 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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