West Indian cricket team in India, Pakistan and Ceylon in 1948–49

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West Indies cricket team in India in 1948-49

Date

19 October 1948 – 3 March 1949

Location

India

Result

West Indies won the 5-Test series 1-0

Teams
India	West Indies
Captains
Lala Amarnath	John Goddard
Most runs
Rusi Modi (560) Vijay Hazare (543) Lala Amarnath (294)	Everton Weekes (779) Clyde Walcott (452) Allan Rae (374)
Most wickets
Vinoo Mankad (17) Dattu Phadkar (14) Ghulam Ahmed (8)	Prior Jones (17) Gerry Gomez (16) John Trim (10)

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The West Indies cricket team toured India, Pakistan and Ceylon from October 1948 to March 1949 and played a five-match Test series against the India national cricket team. West Indies won the Test series 1–0 with four matches being drawn. The West Indians played three matches in Pakistan in November and four matches in Ceylon in February.^[1]

The team

The manager was Donald Lacy, who was the Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the West Indies Cricket Board of Control.

Frank Worrell was in dispute with the West Indies Cricket Board of Control and was not selected. Hines Johnson, who had led the attack against England in 1947–48, was unavailable for business reasons.^[2]

India

1st Test

10–14 November 1948
scorecard

West Indies	v	India
631 (183.4 overs) Clyde Walcott 152 C. R. Rangachari 5/107 (29.4 overs)		454 (158.4 overs) Hemu Adhikari 114 Prior Jones 3/90 (28.4 overs)
		220/6 (f/o) (102 overs) Khanmohammad Ibrahim 44 Prior Jones 0/32 (10 overs)

Match drawn
Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Umpires: DK Naik, JR Patel

West Indies won the toss and decided to bat

2nd Test

9–13 December 1948
scorecard

West Indies	v	India
629/6 d. (206 overs) Everton Weekes 194 Vinoo Mankad 3/202 (75 overs)		273 (142.2 overs) Dattu Phadkar 74 Wilfred Ferguson 4/126 (57 overs)
		333/3 (132 overs) Vijay Hazare 134* Prior Jones 1/52 (12 overs)

Match drawn
Brabourne Stadium, Bombay
Umpires: TA Ramachandran, PK Sinha

West Indies won the toss and decided to bat

3rd Test

31 Dec 1948 - 4 Jan 1949
scorecard

West Indies	v	India
366 (115.2 overs) Everton Weekes 162 Ghulam Ahmed 4/94 (35.2 overs)		272 (109 overs) Rusi Modi 80 John Goddard 3/34 (13 overs)
336/9 d. (105.3 overs) Clyde Walcott 108 Vinoo Mankad 3/68 (24.3 overs)		325/3 (136 overs) Mushtaq Ali 106 John Goddard 1/41 (23 overs)

Match drawn
Eden Gardens, Calcutta
Umpires: AR Joshi, BJ Mohoni

West Indies won the toss and decided to bat

4th Test

27–31 January 1949
scorecard

West Indies	v	India
582 (176.3 overs) Jeffrey Stollmeyer 160 Dattu Phadkar 7/159 (45.3 overs)		245 (99 overs) Rusi Modi 56 John Trim 4/48 (27 overs)
		144 (63.3 overs) Vijay Hazare 52 Prior Jones 4/30 (10 overs)

West Indies won by an innings and 193 runs
Madras Cricket Club Ground, Chepauk, Madras
Umpires: AR Joshi, BJ Mohoni

West Indies won the toss and decided to bat

5th Test

4–8 February 1949
scorecard

West Indies	v	India
286 (104.2 overs) Jeffrey Stollmeyer 85 Dattu Phadkar 4/74 (29.2 overs)		193 (88.4 overs) Vijay Hazare 40 John Trim 3/69 (30 overs)
267 (107.3 overs) Allan Rae 97 Shute Banerjee 4/54 (24.3 overs)		355/8 (107 overs) Vijay Hazare 122 Prior Jones 5/85 (41 overs)

Match drawn
Brabourne Stadium, Bombay
Umpires: AR Joshi, BJ Mohoni

West Indies won the toss and decided to bat

Pakistan

In the first international tour of Pakistan by an overseas team, West Indies played two first-class matches versus Sind at Karachi and a Pakistan XI at Lahore. Both matches were drawn.^[3]^[4]

First Match

19–21 November 1948
[1]

Sind	v	West Indians
173 (80.0 overs) Peter Fernandes 32 Jimmy Cameron 4/52 (31.0 overs)		283 (81.0 overs) George Carew 100 Anwar Hussain 4/66 (25.0 overs)
284 (86.1 overs) Anwar Hussain 81 Denis Atkinson 2/38 (13.0 overs)		61 (18.0 overs) Jeffrey Stollmeyer 36 Munawwar Ali Khan 1/13 (6.0 overs)

Match drawn
Karachi Gymkhana Ground, Karachi
Umpires: Daud Khan, Naoomal Jaoomal

Sind won the toss and decided to bat

Second Match

23–24 November 1948
[2]

NWFP Commander-in-Chief's XI	v	West Indians
85 (41.3 overs) Ahmed Raza 34 Jeffrey Stollmeyer 3/8 (3.3 overs)		169 (47.4 overs) George Carew 40 Miran Bakhsh 5/61 (17.0 overs)
173 (60.5 overs) Maqsood Ahmed 39 George Headley 6/49 (22.5 overs)		90 (26.2 overs) Clyde Walcott 51 Khan Mohammad 1/30 (9.2 overs)

West Indians won by 9 wickets
Peshawar Club Ground, Peshawar

NWFP Commander-in-Chief's XI won the toss and decided to bat

Ceylon

The West Indians visited Ceylon in February and played two first-class matches versus Ceylon. West Indies won the first match at Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium in Colombo by an innings and 22 runs after scoring 462 for two declared with centuries by Allan Rae, Everton Weekes and Clyde Walcott. Prior Jones took ten wickets in the match. The second match at the same venue was drawn, Rae making another century for West Indies.

References

^ "West Indies in India, Pakistan and Ceylon 1948–49". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
^ "West Indies to India 1948-49". Test Cricket Tours. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
^ "Sind v West Indians 1948". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
^ "Pakistan v West Indians 1948". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 July 2014.

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