West Indian cricket team in India and Ceylon in 1966–67

The West Indian cricket team toured India and Ceylon in December 1966 and January 1967 to play a three-match Test series against the Indian national cricket team. West Indies won the Test series 2–0. India were captained by Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi and West Indies by Garfield Sobers.^[1] In January, the West Indians played a first-class rated international against the Ceylon national cricket team at the Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo. The match was drawn. Ceylon were captained by Michael Tissera.^[2]

Test series summary

First Test

13–18 December 1966 (5-day match) Scorecard

India	v	West Indies
296 (109.4 overs) CG Borde 121 GS Sobers 3/46 (25 overs)		421 (161.5 overs) CC Hunte 101 BS Chandrasekhar 7/157 (61.5 overs)
316 (111.5 overs) BK Kunderan 79 LR Gibbs 4/67 (24.5 overs)		192/4 (64.1 overs) CH Lloyd 78* BS Chandrasekhar 4/78 (31 overs)

West Indies won by 6 wickets Brabourne Stadium, Bombay Umpires: AM Mamsa and B Satyaji Rao

• India won the toss and elected to bat.
• 16 December was taken as a rest day.
• AL Wadekar (IND) and CH Lloyd (WIN) made their Test debuts.

Second Test

31 December 1966–5 January 1967 (5-day match) Scorecard

West Indies	v	India
390 (138 overs) RB Kanhai 90 BS Chandrasekhar 3/107 (46 overs)		167 (85.5 overs) BK Kunderan 39 LR Gibbs 5/51 (37 overs)
		178 (f/o) (77.4 overs) Hanumant Singh 37 GS Sobers 4/56 (20 overs)

West Indies won by an innings and 45 runs Eden Gardens, Calcutta Umpires: I Gopalakrishnan and SP Pan

• West Indies won the toss and elected to bat.
• 2 January was taken as a rest day.
• There was no play on the second day due to riots in the stadium.^[3]
• BS Bedi (IND) made his Test debut.

Third Test

13–18 January 1967 (5-day match) Scorecard

India	v	West Indies
404 (143.2 overs) CG Borde 125 LR Gibbs 3/87 (46 overs)		406 (132 overs) GS Sobers 95 BS Chandrasekhar 4/130 (46 overs)
323 (105.4 overs) AL Wadekar 67 CC Griffith 4/61 (14 overs)		270/7 (93 overs) GS Sobers 74* BS Bedi 4/81 (28 overs)

Match drawn Madras Cricket Club Ground, Madras Umpires: SK Raghunatha Rao and S Roy

• India won the toss and elected to bat.
• 16 January was taken as a rest day.

References

1. "West Indies in India and Ceylon 1966–67". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
2. "Ceylon v West Indies 1967". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
3. "Mayhem in Queenstown". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 26 April 2018.

External links

• West Indies to India 1966-67 at Test Cricket Tours
• West Indies in India and Ceylon 1966-67 at CricketArchive

Further reading

• Dicky Rutnagur, "West Indies triumph but cracks begin to show", The Cricketer, Spring Annual, 1967, pp. 65–68
• Dicky Rutnagur, "West Indies in India, 1966-67", Wisden 1968, pp. 855–70