Indian cricket team in Australia in 1947-48

The India national cricket team toured Australia in the 1947-48 season to play a five-match Test series against Australia. Australia won the series 4-0, with one match drawn.

This was India's inaugural tour of Australia and it was also the first tour by a team representing the newly independent India. Independence had been finalised only two months before the tour began.

First-class matches

In addition to the Test series, the tourists played nine other first-class matches against Western Australia (2 games - the tour opener and the last game of the tour); South Australia; Victoria; New South Wales; Australia XI; Queensland; and Tasmania (2 matches). India won two and lost three of these matches, the other four being drawn.

Test series summary

* [http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/18/18307.html 1st Test] at Brisbane Cricket Ground – Australia won by an innings and 226 runs
* [http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/18/18312.html 2nd Test] at Sydney Cricket Ground – match drawn
* [http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/18/18335.html 3rd Test] at Melbourne Cricket Ground – Australia won by 233 runs
* [http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/18/18360.html 4th Test] at Adelaide Oval – Australia won by an innings and 16 runs
* [http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/18/18368.html 5th Test] at Melbourne Cricket Ground – Australia won by an innings and 177 runs

1st Test

Test match
date = Nov 28 - Dec 4, 1947
team1 = cr-rt|AUS
team2 = cr|IND
score-team1-inns1 = 382/8(dec) (115 overs)
runs-team1-inns1 = Don Bradman 185*
Keith Miller 58
wickets-team1-inns1 = Lala Amarnath 4/84 (39 overs)
Vinoo Mankad 3/113 (34 overs)
score-team2-inns1 = 58 (21.3 overs)
runs-team2-inns1 = Lala Amarnath 22
wickets-team2-inns1 = Ernie Toshack 5/2 (2.3 overs)
Ray Lindwall 2/11 (5 overs)
score-team1-inns2 =
runs-team1-inns2 =
wickets-team1-inns2 =
score-team2-inns2 = 98 (49.7 overs)
runs-team2-inns2 = Chandra Sarwate 26
wickets-team2-inns2 = Ernie Toshack 6/29 (17 overs)
Ray Lindwall 2/19 (11.7 overs)
result = cr|AUS win by an innings and 226 runs
venue = Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane, Australia
umpires = Andrew Barlow (AUS) and George Borwick (AUS)
motm =
report = [http://ind.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1940S/1947-48/IND_IN_AUS/IND_AUS_T1_28NOV-04DEC1947.html (Scorecard)]
rain = Only One hour play on Day 2
*"One session play on Day 3.
*"One session play on Day 4.|

External sources

* [http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Seasons/AUS/1947-48_AUS_India_in_Australia_1947-48.html CricketArchive tour itinerary]

Annual reviews

* Wisden Cricketers Almanack 1948

Further reading

* Bill Frindall, "The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877-1978", Wisden, 1979
* Chris Harte, "A History of Australian Cricket", Andre Deutsch, 1993
* Ray Robinson, "On Top Down Under", Cassell, 1975
* Ramachandra Guha, "A Corner of a Foreign Field - An Indian History of a British Sport", Picador, 2001