Indian cricket team in Pakistan in 1954–55

Indian cricket team in Pakistan in 1954–55
	India	Pakistan
Dates	28 December 1954 – 1 March 1955
Captains	Vinoo Mankad	Abdul Kardar
Test series
Result	5-match series drawn 0–0
Most runs	Pankaj Roy (273)	Alimuddin (332)
Most wickets	Subhash Gupte (21)	Khan Mohammad (22)

The India national cricket team toured Pakistan during the 1954–55 cricket season. They played five Test matches against the Pakistan cricket team, with the series drawn 0–0.^[1] It was the first Test series to be played in Pakistan.^[2]

Test matches

1st Test

1–4 January 1955 (4-day match) scorecard

Pakistan	v	India
257 (136.2 overs) Imtiaz Ahmed 54 Ghulam Ahmed 5/109 (45 overs)		148 (82.5 overs) Gulabrai Ramchand 37 Mahmood Hussain 6/67 (27 overs)
158 (86.2 overs) Alimuddin 51 Subhash Gupte 5/18 (6 overs)		147/2 (82 overs) Vijay Manjrekar 74 Khan Mohammad 2/18 (12 overs)

Match drawn Dacca Stadium, Dhaka, East Pakistan Umpires: Daud Khan, Idrees Baig

• Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat
• Pananmal Punjabi and Naren Tamhane (Ind) both made their Test debuts.

2nd Test

15–18 January 1955 (4-day match) scorecard

India	v	Pakistan
235 (119.5 overs) Naren Tamhane 54 Khan Mohammad 5/74 (33 overs)		312/9d (164 overs) Hanif Mohammad 142 Polly Umrigar 6/74 (58 overs)
209/5 (89 overs) Pankaj Roy 78 Khan Mohammad 2/50 (22 overs)

Match drawn Bahawal Stadium, Bahawalpur Umpires: Idrees Baig (Pak) and Shujauddin (Pak)

• India won the toss and elected to bat.
• Hanif Mohammad (Pak) scored his maiden century in Tests.^[3]
• Pankaj Roy (Ind) passed 1,000 runs in Tests.^[4]

3rd Test

29 Jan-1 Feb 1955 (4-day match) Scorecard

Pakistan	v	India
328 (187.5 overs) Maqsood Ahmed 99 Subhash Gupte 5/133 (73.5 overs)		251 (128.1 overs) Polly Umrigar 78 Mahmood Hussain 4/70 (26.1 overs)
136/5 d. (84.3 overs) Alimuddin 58 Vinoo Mankad 3/33 (28 overs)		74/2 (32 overs) Chandrasekhar Gadkari 27 Abdul Kardar 2/20 (12 overs)

Match drawn Bagh-e-Jinnah, Lahore Umpires: Idrees Baig, Shujauddin

• Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat
• Miran Bakhsh (Pak) made his Test debut.

4th Test

12–15 February 1955 (4-day match) Scorecard

Pakistan	v	India
188 (146.3 overs) Waqar Hasan 43 Subhash Gupte 5/63 (41.3 overs)		245 (108 overs) Polly Umrigar 108 Khan Mohammad 4/79 (36 overs)
182 (122 overs) Imtiaz Ahmed 69 Vinoo Mankad 5/64 (54 overs)		23/1 (19 overs) Pankaj Roy 13 Hanif Mohammad 1/1 (4 overs)

Match drawn Peshawar Club Ground, Peshawar Umpires: Idrees Baig, Shujauddin

• Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat.

5th Test

26 Feb-1 Mar 1955 (4-day match) Scorecard

Pakistan	v	India
162 (96 overs) Imtiaz Ahmed 37 Gulabrai Ramchand 6/49 (28 overs)		145 (63.3 overs) Pankaj Roy 37 Fazal Mahmood 5/48 (28.3 overs)
241/5 d. (86 overs) Alimuddin 103 Polly Umrigar 2/64 (27 overs)		69/2 (32 overs) Pananmal Punjabi 22 Maqsood Ahmed 1/5 (5 overs)

Match drawn National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Daud Khan, Masood Salahuddin

• Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat
• Prakash Bhandari and Jasubhai Patel (Ind) both made their Test debuts.

References

1. "365 not out". ESPNcricinfo. March 2006. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
2. "India in Pakistan, 1954–55". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
3. "Second Test Match, Pakistan v India 1954-55". Wisden. Retrieved 24 July 2018 – via ESPNcricinfo.
4. "India in Pakistan 1954/55 (2nd Test)". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 5 October 2012. Retrieved 24 July 2018.

Further reading

• Butt, Qamaruddin (1955). Cricket Without Challenge. Sialkot and Lahore: Maliksons.

External links

• Tour home at ESPNcricinfo
• India in Pakistan 1954/55 at CricketArchive (subscription required)