New Zealand cricket team in India in 1955–56

New Zealand cricket team in India in 1955-56


Date	15 November 1955 - 12 January 1956
Location	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 a three-Test series 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

India	v	New Zealand
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)

Match drawn
Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad
Umpires: JR Patel, MG Vijayasarathi

India won the toss and decided to bat

2nd Test

2–7 December 1955
scorecard

India	v	New Zealand
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

New Zealand	v	India
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)

Match drawn
Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Umpires: D. D. Desai, ND Nagarwala

New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat

4th Test

28 Dec-2 Jan 1956
scorecard

India	v	New Zealand
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)

Match drawn
Eden Gardens, Calcutta
Umpires: D. D. Desai, SK Ganguli

India won the toss and decided to bat

5th Test

6–11 January 1956
scorecard

India	v	New Zealand
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

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

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