Pakistani cricket team in India in 1952–53

Pakistan cricket team in India in 1952-53
Captains Abdul Kardar (left) and Lala Amarnath (right) with Indian President Rajendra Prasad (center) on the day of the first test, 16 October 1952
Date10 October 1952 – 24 December 1952
LocationIndia India
ResultIndia won the 5-Test series 2-1
Teams
 India  Pakistan
Captains
Lala Amarnath Abdul Kardar
Most runs
Polly Umrigar (258)
Vijay Hazare (223)
Vinoo Mankad (129)		 Waqar Hasan (357)
Hanif Mohammad (287)
Nazar Mohammad (277)
Most wickets
Vinoo Mankad (25)
Ghulam Ahmed (12)
Lala Amarnath (9)		 Fazal Mahmood (20)
Mahmood Hussain (12)
Amir Elahi (7)
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The Pakistan national cricket team toured the republic of India in the 1952–53 season, playing five Tests.[1] The First Test was the first-ever Test for Pakistan after its inception and the second match resulted in Pakistan's first Test victory.[2] India won the series 2–1 with two Tests being drawn.

The Pakistan team

Tour matches

Three-day: North Zone v Pakistanis

10–12 October 1952
Scorecard
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319 (102 overs)
Hanif Mohammad 121
Prakash Bhandari 5/39 (16 overs)
220 (91.2 overs)
Chandrasekhar Gadkari 59
Fazal Mahmood 4/64 (31 overs)
241/2 (78 overs)
Hanif Mohammad 109*
Chandrasekhar Gadkari 1/19 (4 overs)
Match drawn
Gandhi Sports Complex Ground, Amritsar
Umpires: Santosh Ganguli and I. Ghosh
  • Pakistanis won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Prakash Bhandari (North Zone) picked his maiden five-wicket haul in first-class matches.[3]

Three-day: Central Zone v Pakistanis

31 October–2 November 1952
Scorecard
v
356 (94.3 overs)
Imtiaz Ahmed 213*
Hiralal Gaekwad 4/131 (35 overs)
271 (80.5 overs)
Syed Mushtaq Ali 73
Mahmood Hussain 5/116 (22.5 overs)
275/5d (88 overs)
Abdul Hafeez Kardar 106
Syed Rahim 3/67 (19 overs)
98/8 (26 overs)
Balbir Khanna 43
Khalid Qureshi 5/21 (9 overs)
  • Pakistanis won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Khurshid Ahmed scored a century on debut in first-class matches.[4]
  • Mahmood Hussain claimed his first five-wicket haul in first-class matches.[4]

Three-day: West Zone v Pakistanis

4–6 November 1952
Scorecard
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332/6d (120 overs)
Pananmal Punjabi 142
Maqsood Ahmed 2/66 (19 overs)
292 (95.5 overs)
Wazir Mohammad 104*
Shah Nyalchand 5/114 (39 overs)
123/3d (36 overs)
Ebrahim Maka 56
Maqsood Ahmed 1/23 (9 overs)
54/2 (20 overs)
Maqsood Ahmed 25
Shah Nyalchand 1/2 (2 overs)

Three-day: Bombay v Pakistanis

8–10 November 1952
Scorecard
v
517/4d (156 overs)
Hanif Mohammad 203*
Sadashiv Shinde 2/156 (56 overs)
324/3 (154 overs)
Vijay Manjrekar 173
Israr Ali 1/35 (21 overs)
Match drawn
Brabourne Stadium, Bombay
Umpires: M. G. Bhave and Noshirvan Nagarwala
  • Pakistanis won the toss and elected to bat.

Three-day: South Zone v Pakistanis

21–23 November 1952
Scorecard
v
351/6d (119 overs)
Nazar Mohammad 156*
N. Kannayiram 3/67 (20 overs)
352/6d (160.4 overs)
L. T. Adisesh 87
Khalid Qureshi 2/117 (55 overs)
44/2 (11 overs)
Imtiaz Ahmed 21
Edulji Aibara 1/11 (3 overs)
M. Suryanarayan 1/11 (2 overs)
Match drawn
Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad
Umpires: Bapu Joshi and V. S. Natarajan
  • Pakistanis won the toss and elected to bat.

Three-day: Indian Universities v Pakistanis

5–7 December 1952
Scorecard
v
340/8d (137 overs)
Ramnath Kenny 99
Khalid Qureshi 4/90 (41 overs)
92 (38.4 overs)
Hanif Mohammad 24
Jayasinghrao Ghorpade 6/19 (7.4 overs)
16/0 (f/o ) (7 overs)
Nazar Mohammad 8*
  • Indian Universities won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Hanif Mohammad (Pakistanis) passed 1,000 runs in first-class matches.[6]

Three-day: East Zone v Pakistanis

19–21 December 1952
Scorecard
v
345/7d (100 overs)
Nazar Mohammad 123
Sudhir Das 2/69 (20 overs)
211 (59 overs)
Benjamin Frank 93
Mahmood Hussain 5/52 (20 overs)
200/7d (55 overs)
Khurshid Ahmed 69
Sudhir Das 3/54 (12 overs)
157/6 (58.5 overs)
S. Om Prakash 50*
Amir Elahi 3/68 (22 overs)
  • Pakistanis won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Raymond Lewis and B. Moitra (both East Zone) played respectively their debut and only first-class matches, while Nazar Mohammad (Pakistanis) played his last.[7]

Test matches

1st Test

16–18 October 1952 (4-day match)
Scorecard
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372 (139.4 overs)
Hemu Adhikari 81
Amir Elahi 4/134 (39.4 overs)
150 (104.3 overs)
Hanif Mohammad 51
Vinoo Mankad 8/52 (47 overs)
152 (58.2 overs)
Abdul Kardar 43
Vinoo Mankad 5/79 (24.2 overs)
India won by an innings and 70 runs
Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Umpires: Balkrishna Mohoni (Ind) and Mysore Vijayasarathi (Ind)
  • India won the toss and elected to bat.
  • This was the first Test match for Pakistan. For all the Pakistani players except Abdul Kardar and Amir Elahi this was the debut Test. Kardar and Elahi had earlier played Test cricket for India.
  • Hemu Adhikari and Ghulam Ahmed broke the record for highest tenth wicket partnership for India, before Sachin Tendulkar and Zaheer Khan surpassed it in 2004 (133).[8]
  • Vinoo Mankad's 8/52 in Pakistan's first innings and 13/131 in the match were the best bowling figures recorded by an India bowler.[9]

2nd Test

23–26 October 1952 (4-day match)
Scorecard
v
106 (55.1 overs)
Pankaj Roy 30
Fazal Mahmood 5/52 (24.1 overs)
331 (194.3 overs)
Nazar Mohammad 124
Ghulam Ahmed 3/83 (45 overs)
182 (76.3 overs)
Lala Amarnath 61
Fazal Mahmood 7/42 (27.3 overs)
Pakistan won by an innings and 43 runs
University Ground, Lucknow
Umpires: Balkrishna Mohoni (Ind) and Jamshed Patel (Ind)

3rd Test

13–16 November 1952
(4-day match)
Scorecard
v
186 (73 overs)
Waqar Hasan 81
Lala Amarnath 4/40 (21 overs)
387/4d (112 overs)
Vijay Hazare 146
Mahmood Hussain 3/121 (35 overs)
242 (149.2 overs)
Hanif Mohammad 96
Vinoo Mankad 5/72 (65 overs)
45/0 (15.2 overs)
Vinoo Mankad 35
Abdul Kardar 0/2 (2 overs)
India won by 10 wickets
Brabourne Stadium, Bombay
Umpires: Jamshed Patel (Ind) and Mysore Vijayasarathi (Ind)

4th Test

28 November–1 December 1952
(4-day match)
Scorecard
v
344 (110.5 overs)
Abdul Kardar 79
Ramesh Divecha 2/36 (19 overs)
175/6 (74 overs)
Polly Umrigar 62
Abdul Kardar 2/37 (21 overs)
  • Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.
  • No play was possible on the last two days because of rain.
  • Ebrahim Maka (Ind) made his debut in Tests.

5th Test

12–15 Dec 1952
(4-day match)
Scorecard
v
257 (116 overs)
Imtiaz Ahmed 57
Dattu Phadkar 5/72 (32 overs)
397 (144 overs)
Deepak Shodhan 110
Fazal Mahmood 4/141 (64 overs)
236/7d (120 overs)
Waqar Hasan 97
Ghulam Ahmed 3/56 (33 overs)
28/0 (6 overs)
Datta Gaekwad 20
Nazar Mohammad 0/4 (2 overs)
Match drawn
Eden Gardens, Calcutta
Umpires: Jamshed Patel (Ind) and Mysore Vijayasarathi (Ind)
  • India won the toss and elected to field.
  • Deepak Shodhan (Ind) made his debut in Tests.

Aftermath

In 2003, to mark the 50th anniversary of the tour, the surviving members of the Pakistani team were awarded a commemorative medallion, a cash prize of 250,000 rupees, and a current green Pakistan blazer.[10]

References

  1. ^ Pakistan in India, East Pakistan and Burma 1952-53
  2. ^ "Pakistan announce themselves". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
  3. ^ "North Zone v Pakistanis". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 15 March 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Central Zone v Pakistanis". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 5 July 2019. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  5. ^ "West Zone v Pakistanis". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 18 July 2018. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  6. ^ "Indian Universities v Pakistanis". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 18 July 2018. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  7. ^ "East Zone v Pakistanis". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 18 July 2018. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  8. ^ "Tendulkar and Pathan put India on the brink". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  9. ^ "India v Pakistan 1952-53". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  10. ^ "Pakistan's pioneers to be honoured by president". ESPNcricinfo. 29 August 2003. Retrieved 13 July 2019.

Further reading

  • "Pakistan in India, 1952", Wisden 1953, pp. 872–83
  • Abdul Kardar, Inaugural Test Matches, 1954