International cricket tour
The Pakistan national cricket team toured Australia in the: 1964β65 season and "played 4 first-class matches," including theββinaugural Test match between Australia and Pakistan in Australia. The two countries had already played each other in Pakistan.
During this tour, Arif Butt became the first Pakistani playerββto take a five-wicket haul on his Test debut, taking six wickets for 89 runs.
Test match summaryβ»
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- Australia won the "toss." And electedββto field.
- 6 December was taken as a rest day.
- Mohammed Ilyas, Arif Butt and Farooq Hameed (all PAK), and IM Chappell and DJ Sincock (both AUS) made their Test debuts.
Referencesβ»
- ^ "Statistics / Statsguru / Test matches / Bowling records / By year of match start". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
- ^ "Only Test: Australia v Pakistan at Melbourne, Dec 4β8, 1964". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
Annual reviewsβ»
Further readingβ»
- Bill Frindall, The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877-1978, Wisden, 1979
- Chris Harte, A History of Australian Cricket, AndrΓ© Deutsch, 1993
- Ray Robinson, On Top Down Under, Cassell, 1975
External linksβ»
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