New Zealand cricket team in India in 1955–56

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New Zealand cricket team in India in 1955-56
Date 15 November 1955 - 12 January 1956
Location India India
Result India won the 5-Test series 2-0-3
Teams
 India  New Zealand
Captains
Ghulam Ahmed Harry Cave
Most runs
Vinoo Mankad (526)
Vijay Manjrekar (386)
Polly Umrigar (351)		 Bert Sutcliffe (611)
John Reid (493)
John Guy (313)
Most wickets
Subhash Gupte (34)
Vinoo Mankad (12)
Dattu Phadkar (6)		 Johnny Hayes (10)
Harry Cave (7)
Tony MacGibbon (7)

The New Zealand national cricket team toured India in 1955-56 season.[1] The teams played five Tests. India won the series 2-0 with three Tests drawn.

Before the series, the New Zealand team had played three Tests in Pakistan.

New Zealand team

Every player played at least one Test in the series. Cave, Reid, Guy, Hayes, MacGibbon and Sutcliffe played all five Tests.

The team was managed by Henry Cooper, who was at the time headmaster of Auckland Grammar School, and had previously played three first-class matches for Auckland.[2]

Test matches

1st Test

19–24 November 1955
scorecard
v
498/4 d. (175.1 overs)
Polly Umrigar 223
Johnny Hayes 3/91 (26 overs)
326 (209.4 overs)
John Guy 102
Subhash Gupte 7/128 (76.4 overs)
212/2 (92 overs)
Bert Sutcliffe 137
Subhash Gupte 1/28 (18 overs)
  • India won the toss and decided to bat

2nd Test

2–7 December 1955
scorecard
v
421/8 d. (158 overs)
Vinoo Mankad 223
Harry Cave 3/77 (48 overs)
258 (134.1 overs)
Bert Sutcliffe 73
Subhash Gupte 3/83 (51 overs)
136 (77.4 overs)
Bert Sutcliffe 37
Subhash Gupte 5/45 (32.4 overs)
India won by an innings and 27 runs
Brabourne Stadium, Bombay
Umpires: BJ Mohoni, MG Vijayasarathi
  • India won the toss and decided to bat

3rd Test

16–21 December 1955
scorecard
v
450/2 d. (176 overs)
Bert Sutcliffe 230
Subhash Gupte 1/98 (39 overs)
531/7 d. (241.5 overs)
Vijay Manjrekar 177
Johnny Hayes 2/105 (44 overs)
112/1 (58 overs)
Gordon Leggat 50
Vijay Manjrekar 1/16 (20 overs)
  • New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat

4th Test

28 Dec-2 Jan 1956
scorecard
v
132 (59.3 overs)
Jayasinghrao Ghorpade 39
John Reid 3/19 (16 overs)
336 (145.5 overs)
John Reid 120
Subhash Gupte 6/90 (33.5 overs)
438/7 d. (209 overs)
Gulabrai Ramchand 106
Johnny Hayes 2/67 (30 overs)
75/6 (34 overs)
Noel McGregor 29
Dattu Phadkar 2/11 (4 overs)
  • India won the toss and decided to bat

5th Test

6–11 January 1956
scorecard
v
537/3 d. (177 overs)
Vinoo Mankad 231
Matt Poore 1/95 (31 overs)
209 (132 overs)
Bert Sutcliffe 47
Subhash Gupte 5/72 (49 overs)
219 (130.3 overs)
John Reid 63
Vinoo Mankad 4/65 (40 overs)
India won by an innings and 109 runs
Nehru Stadium, Madras
Umpires: AR Joshi, MG Vijayasarathi
  • India won the toss and decided to bat

References

  1. ↑ The Home of CricketArchive
  2. ↑ Richard Boock, The Last Everyday Hero: The Bert Sutcliffe Story, Longacre, Auckland, 2010, p. 131.

External links

Further reading

  • "New Zealand in Pakistan and India, 1955-56", Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1957, pp. 813–28.
  • Richard Boock, The Last Everyday Hero: The Bert Sutcliffe Story, Longacre, Auckland, 2010, pp. 128–42.
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