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The West Indies cricket team toured India from November 1958 to February 1959 and played a five match Test series against the India national cricket team The West Indies won the series 3 0 The West Indies were captained by Gerry Alexander while India used four different captains in the series Ghulam Ahmed leading in two Tests 1 West Indian cricket team in India in 1958 59 IndiaWest IndiesDates5 November 1958 15 February 1959CaptainsPolly Umrigar 1st Test Ghulam Ahmed 2nd and 3rd Tests Vinoo Mankad 4th Test Hemu Adhikari 5th Test Gerry AlexanderTest seriesResultWest Indies won the 5 match series 3 0Most runsPolly Umrigar 337 Garfield Sobers 557 Most wicketsSubhash Gupte 22 Wes Hall 30 Contents 1 Touring party 2 Test series summary 2 1 First Test 2 2 Second Test 2 3 Third Test 2 4 Fourth Test 2 5 Fifth Test 3 References 4 External linksTouring party editThe West Indies Cricket Board announced a 16 man squad for the India tour on 1 April 1958 led by Frank Worrell 2 However Worrell withdrew from the tour in May John Holt and Wes Hall were added to the squad in August 3 The squad included Gerry Alexander c Eric Atkinson Basil Butcher Robin Bynoe Lance Gibbs Roy Gilchrist Wes Hall Jackie Hendriks wk John Holt Conrad Hunte Rohan Kanhai Sonny Ramadhin Willie Rodriguez Collie Smith Garfield Sobers Joe Solomon Jaswick TaylorTest series summary editFirst Test edit 28 November 3 December 1958 ScorecardWest Indies nbsp v nbsp India227 101 1 overs Rohan Kanhai 66 Subhash Gupte 4 86 33 overs 152 68 2 overs Polly Umrigar 55 Roy Gilchrist 4 39 23 2 overs 323 4d 112 overs Garfield Sobers 142 Ghulam Guard 2 69 17 overs 289 5 132 overs Pankaj Roy 90 Roy Gilchrist 2 75 41 overs Match drawnBrabourne Stadium Bombay Umpires Jamshed Patel Ind and M G Vijayasarathi Ind West Indies won the toss and elected to bat Chandu Borde Ghulam Guard and Manohar Hardikar all Ind and Basil Butcher and Wes Hall both Win made their Test debuts 1 December was taken as a rest day Collie Smith Win and Gulabrai Ramchand Ind passed 1 000 runs while Polly Umrigar Ind passed 2 000 runs in Tests 4 Subhash Gupte became the second India player to claim 100 Test wickets 5 Second Test edit 12 17 December 1958 ScorecardWest Indies nbsp v nbsp India222 85 3 overs Gerry Alexander 70 Subhash Gupte 9 102 34 3 overs 222 101 4 overs Polly Umrigar 57 Wes Hall 6 50 28 4 overs 443 7d 127 overs Garfield Sobers 198 Gulabrai Ramchand 2 114 40 overs 240 101 1 overs Nari Contractor 50 Wes Hall 5 76 32 overs West Indies won by 203 runsGreen Park Stadium Kanpur Umpires Mohammad Yunus Ind and Jamshed Patel Ind West Indies won the toss and elected to bat 15 December was taken as a rest day Vasant Ranjane Ind and Joe Solomon Win made their Test debuts Third Test edit 31 December 1958 4 January 1959 ScorecardWest Indies nbsp v nbsp India614 5d 162 1 overs Rohan Kanhai 256 Surendranath 2 168 46 overs 124 62 5 overs Polly Umrigar 44 Roy Gilchrist 3 18 23 overs 154 f o 49 overs Vijay Manjrekar 58 Roy Gilchrist 6 55 21 overs West Indies won by an innings and 336 runsEden Gardens Calcutta Umpires Mohammad Yunus Ind and Noshirvan Nagarwala Ind West Indies won the toss and elected to bat Ramnath Kenny and Surendranath both Ind made their Test debuts Rohan Kanhai made his first century and the highest individual by a West Indies player against India in a Test 256 6 2 January was taken as a rest day Fourth Test edit 21 26 January 1959 ScorecardWest Indies nbsp v nbsp India500 181 overs Basil Butcher 142 Vinoo Mankad 4 95 38 overs 222 78 1 overs A G Kripal Singh 53 Garfield Sobers 4 26 18 1 overs 168 5d 76 overs John Holt 81 Subhash Gupte 4 78 30 overs 151 70 overs Chandu Borde 56 Roy Gilchrist 3 36 17 overs West Indies won by 295 runsNehru Stadium Madras Umpires Bapu Joshi Ind and M G Vijayasarathi Ind West Indies won the toss and elected to bat Apoorva Sengupta Ind made his Test debut 23 January was taken as a rest day Rohan Kanhai and Garfield Sobers both Win passed 1 000 and 2 000 runs respectively in Tests 7 Roy Gilchrist Win claimed his 50th wicket in Tests 7 Fifth Test edit 6 11 February 1959 ScorecardIndia nbsp v nbsp West Indies415 141 3 overs Chandu Borde 109 Wes Hall 4 66 26 overs 644 8d 214 overs John Holt 123 Ramakant Desai 4 169 49 overs 275 111 2 overs Chandu Borde 96 Collie Smith 5 90 42 overs Match drawnFeroz Shah Kotla Ground Delhi Umpires Santosh Ganguli Ind and Noshirvan Nagarwala Ind India won the toss and elected to bat Ramakant Desai Ind made his Test debut Chandu Borde Ind scored his first Test century 8 9 February was taken as a rest day John Holt passed 1 000 runs in Tests 8 References edit West Indies in India 1958 59 CricketArchive Retrieved 9 August 2014 Worrell to Lead W Indies Team to India The Indian Express Reuters 2 April 1958 p 10 Test Cricket Tours West Indies to India amp Pakistan 1958 59 Test Cricket Tours Archived from the original on 3 March 2017 Retrieved 7 February 2021 India v West Indies West Indies in India and Pakistan 1958 59 1st Test at CricketArchive subscription required Chughtai Arshad 9 March 2006 Sobers prefers Gupte over Warne CricketArchive Archived from the original on 1 August 2013 Retrieved 6 February 2021 India v West Indies Wisden ESPNcricinfo Retrieved 6 February 2021 a b India v West Indies West Indies in India and Pakistan 1958 59 4th Test at CricketArchive subscription required a b India v West Indies West Indies in India and Pakistan 1958 59 5th Test at CricketArchive subscription required External links editTour home at ESPNcricinfo Tour home at ESPNcricinfo archive West Indies in India and Pakistan 1958 59 at CricketArchive subscription required nbsp This article about an international cricket tour of India is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title West Indian cricket team in India in 1958 59 amp oldid 1100166540, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
