Indian cricket team in Australia in 1967–68

The India national cricket team toured Australia in the 1967–68 season and played a four-match Test series against Australia. Australia won the Test series 4-0.

In all first-class matches, the Indians lost to Western Australia and South Australia, and drew with Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales. The first-class match against Queensland was abandoned without a ball being bowled.

The Indians went on after this tour to play four Test matches and two other games in New Zealand – see Indian cricket team in New Zealand in 1967-68.

Indian team[]

Nawab of Pataudi (captain)
Chandu Borde (vice-captain)
Syed Abid Ali
Bishan Bedi
Bhagwat Chandrasekhar
Ramakant Desai
Farokh Engineer
Kumar Indrajitsinhji
M. L. Jaisimha
Umesh Kulkarni
Bapu Nadkarni
Erapalli Prasanna
Dilip Sardesai
Ramesh Saxena
Venkataraman Subramanya
Rusi Surti
Ajit Wadekar

The manager was Ghulam Ahmed.

All the players had played Tests before except for Abid Ali and Kulkarni, who made their debuts in the Tests against Australia. Jaisimha was not in the original team, but was added to the side after the Second Test.

Series summary[]

First Series[]

23–28 December 1967 Scorecard	Australia 335 (92.1 overs)	v	India 307 (71.4 overs)	Australia won by 146 runs Adelaide Oval, Adelaide Umpires: CJ Egar, LP Rowan
	Bob Cowper 92 Abid Ali 6/55 (17 overs)		Farokh Engineer 89 Alan Connolly 4/54 (12.4 overs)
	369 (88.5 overs)		251 (60.2 overs)
	Bob Cowper 108 Rusi Surti 5/74 (20.1 overs)		V. Subramanya 75 David Renneberg 5/39 (14.2 overs)
Australia won the toss and decided to bat

Second Test[]

30 Dec-3 Jan 1968 Scorecard	India 173 (57.4 overs)	v	Australia 529 (105.3 overs)	Australia won by an innings and 4 runs Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Umpires: CJ Egar, LP Rowan
	Nawab of Pataudi 75 Garth McKenzie 7/66 (21.4 overs)		Ian Chappell 151 Erapalli Prasanna 6/141 (34 overs)
	352 (84.7 overs)
	Ajit Wadekar 99 Bob Simpson 3/44 (14 overs)
India won the toss and decided to bat

Third Test[]

19–24 January 1968 scorecard	Australia 379 (112.2 overs)	v	India 279 (100 overs)	Australia won by 39 runs Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane Umpires: CJ Egar, LP Rowan
	Doug Walters 93 Rusi Surti 3/102 (26 overs)		Nawab of Pataudi 74 Bob Cowper 3/31 (15 overs)
	294 (83.4 overs)		355 (109.6 overs)
	Ian Redpath 79 Erapalli Prasanna 6/104 (33.4 overs)		M. L. Jaisimha 101 Bob Cowper 4/104 (39.6 overs)
India won the toss and decided to field

Fourth Test[]

26–31 January 1968 Scorecard	Australia 317 (86.6 overs)	v	India 268 (85.1 overs)	Australia won by 144 runs Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Umpires: CJ Egar, LP Rowan
	Doug Walters 94 Erapalli Prasanna 3/62 (20.6 overs)		Syed Abid Ali 78 Eric Freeman 4/86 (18.1 overs)
	292 (85.3 overs)		197 (73.6 overs)
	Bob Cowper 165 Prasanna 4/96 (29.3 overs)		Syed Abid Ali 81 Bob Simpson 5/59 (23 overs)
India won the toss and decided to field

References[]

External sources[]

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