CRICKET HISTORY: Story Team India’s first International Test match, 93 years ago, England collided with England
Team India Cricket History: There are crores of cricket lovers in India and you are probably one of them. This is the reason that today we are going to tell you through this special article, the story of Team India’s first Test International match which he played against England 93 years ago on Lord’s Cricket Ground.
India played their first Test match in 1932 in which the Maharaja of Porbandar led the team, while his brother-in-law Kumar was the vice-captain of the Sri Limbdi team. Both of them were not a very good cricketer, due to which he decided to sit out in most matches. In such a situation, CK Naidu was the only Test with England that was to be played at Lord’s and was appointed the captain of India for all practical purposes.
The Indian players performed well on the entire tour and won nine matches despite the busy schedule, drew nine and lost in eight matches. Also know that Indian players were not accustomed to playing continuously at that time, due to which Indians suffered many injuries till the end of English summer.
However, despite all this, this was an impressive performance of Team India as he went to the England tour without some of his important players. It is important to know here that after the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi at that time, the Hindu Gymkhana boycotted the tour, which meant that the team did not have players like LP Jai, Vijay Merchant and Champak Mehta. Apart from this, Indian players like Dalip Singhji and Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi played against Indians for Sussex and Worster Seshire respectively.
Talk about the performance of some affected Indian players on this tour, CSK Naidu’s name comes at the top, who scored 1,618 runs on the tour and took 65 wickets. He was also voted Wisdon Cricketer of the Year for his amazing performance. Apart from him, Naumal Jawmal and his brothers Wazir Ali and Nazir Ali also crossed the 1,000 -run mark. Not only this, India’s three fast bowlers – Mohammad Nisar, Amar Singh and Jahangir Khan – took the entire 235 wickets on the tour.
Now let’s talk about India’s most historic match which he played in front of England in 1932 from 25 June at Lord’s ground. Interestingly, when India won its first World Cup in 1983, it was also at Lord’s on 25 June.
The start of this test was also excellent. Nisar bowled Persy Holmes and Herbert Satcliffe, while Lal Singh ran out Frank Woi within the first half an hour of the match. At this time England’s score was 19/3. However, despite all this, he eventually reached a score of 259, and India ended the first day at 30 runs without any loss.
The match was balanced at this time but after that India lost its grip. Team India was all out by scoring 189 runs in the first inning and then England declared the innings on the 275 -run score board losing 8 wickets in their second inning.
From here, India had a target of 346 runs to win in front of India, chasing, by the end of the third day, he was all out for 187 runs in his second inning. In this way, England won the historic match by 158 runs with Bombay -born England captain Douglas Jardin scored 79 and 85 runs.
