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Test Cricket Tours - Australia to Pakistan and India 1956-57

 

 

Tour of Pakistan & India 1956-57              Captain: Ian Johnson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

25th Australian Test tour  (part of the England tour 1956)

 

First Test-playing tour of  Pakistan and India by Australia

 

 

(September- October 1956)

 

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P A G E    I N     P R E P A R A T I O N

 

Other Australian Tours

 

Previous tour

England 1956

 

Next tour

South Africa 1957-58

 

Next tour of Pakistan & India

1959-60

 

 

 

 

Members of the Test tour party  (1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FLAG_Australia 

 

 

State representation

 

N   New South Wales (

Q  Queensland (

S   South Australia (

T   Tasmania (

V   Victoria (

W  Western Australia (

 

 

 

Average age of  team at time of first Test match

(5 March 1999) :

   yrs   months

 

 

 

 

 

ODI

 

 

 

Test Appearances made before the tour

 

Healy

 

 

 

 

 

Team Officials

 

 

Manager

 

Coach

 

Physiotherapist

 

Fitness adviser

 

Analyst

 

 

 

 

 

Selectors

 

Trevor Hohns  (chairman), 

 

 

 

 

Selection

 

The

Unavailable: Mark Taylor

Tour Party Announced: 

Not selected :

 

 

 

Time between selection and departure from Australia       x days

(23 - 13? February

 

 

 

 

Travel

Sydney   Q   Auckland

Wellington  T  Southampton

 

The

 

Time spent in Pakistan & India

   x days

(14 February - 9 ? February)

 

 

 

 

On-tour selection

 

 Ian Johnson (captain),  Keith Miller  (vice-captain),  Gil Langley.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reinforcements

 

None.  Ron Archer twisted his knee on the mat during the Karachi Test and could not play again on the tour.  Keith Miller did not play in India.

 

 

 

 

 

Fixtures/Results

 

a

 KARACHI

 PAKISTAN  Test Match

 

b

 

 

 

c

 

 

 

d

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

† not first-class

⊕ T20 international

§  one-day international

 

 

 

Time spent in Pakistan before First Test: 

  x days

(14 February - 14 December)

 

 

 

 

Test appearances on tour

 

4  -  

 

 

 

 

 

Highlights

 

   Mi

   M

   Richie Benaud took 6-52 on the second day at Calcutta to set up the Australian victoria

   With opening batsman Jim Burke (4-37), Benaud took 5-53 in the 2nd innings to dismiss the Indians.

 

 

 

 

 

Tour Summary

 

 

 P

 W

L

D

Aban

Test Matches

4

2

1

1

-

Other first-class matches

0

-

-

-

-

ϯ Minor matches

0

-

-

-

-

All Matches

4

2

2

1

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

Return to Australia

Calcutta   Q   Sydney

 

 

 

After three Test matches in India, they left Benares on 7 November returning to Australia.

Australians arrived back on the weekend of 10 November

 

Time away from Australia

   224 days  

(1 April to 10 November)

 

 

 

 

Finances

 

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Written accounts of the tour

 

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Postscript

 

 

 

 



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