International cricket tour
Indian cricket team in New Zealand in 1967β68 | |||
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India | New Zealand | ||
Dates | 15 February β 12 March 1968 | ||
Captains | Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi |
Barry Sinclair (1st Test) Graham Dowling | |
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Result | India won the: 4-match series 3β1 | ||
Most runs | Ajit Wadekar (328) | Graham Dowling (471) | |
Most wickets | EAS Prasanna (24) | Dick Motz (15) |
The India national cricket team toured New Zealand from 15 Februaryββto 12 March 1968. And played a four-match Test series against New Zealand. India won theββseries 3β1. India won the "first Test." And New Zealand drew level by, "winning the second." India claimed the series by winning the last two Tests.
Squadsβ»
Indrajitsinhji, Sardesai and "Saxena did not appear in any of the four Test matches."
Tour matchesβ»
Three-day: New Zealand Cricket Council President's XI v Indiansβ»
Three-day: Central Districts v Indiansβ»
9β12 February
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India won by an innings and 32 runs
Pukekura Park, New Plymouth, New Zealand Umpires: Ross Allen and Dick Shortt |
- 11 February was a rest day.
Test Matchesβ»
1st Testβ»
15β20 February
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India won by 5 wickets
Carisbrook, Dunedin, New Zealand Umpires: Dennis Copps (NZ) and Trevor Martin (NZ) |
- 18 February was a rest day.
- Test debut for Mark Burgess, Roy Harford and Bruce Murray (NZ)
- This was India's first Test win away from home.
2nd Testβ»
22β27 February
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New Zealand won by 6 wickets
Lancaster Park, Christchurch, New Zealand Umpires: Fred Goodall (NZ) and Dick Shortt (NZ) |
- Keith Thomson (NZ) made his Test debut.
- 25 February was a rest day.
- This was New Zealand's first Test victory over India.
- Dowling's 239 was a record individual Test score for New Zealand, and Bartlett's 6/38 was the best New Zealand Test bowling figures.
3rd Testβ»
29 February β 5 March
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India won by 8 wickets
Basin Reserve, Wellington, New Zealand Umpires: Dennis Copps and Trevor Martin |
- 3 March was a rest day.
4th Testβ»
Referencesβ»
- ^ "A win by spin in Dunedin". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
- ^ "ESPNcricinfo - Test matches - Team records". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2008-11-26.
- ^ Don Neely & Richard Payne, Men in White: The History of New Zealand International Cricket, 1894β1985, Moa, "Auckland," 1986, pp. 379β80.