Indian national cricket team in Australia in the 1967/68 season

The tour of the Indian national cricket team to Australia in the 1967/68 season took place from December 23, 1967 to January 31, 1968. The international cricket tour was part of the 1967/68 international cricket season and included four tests . Australia won the series 4–0.

prehistory

It was the first tour of the season for both teams. The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in the 1964/65 season in India .

Stages

Adelaide Brisbane Melbourne Sydney

Tour venues

The following stages have been designated as the venue for the tour.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Adelaide oval	Adelaide	53,583	1st test
The gabba	Brisbane	42,000	3rd test
Melbourne Cricket Ground	Melbourne	100.024	2nd test
Sydney Cricket Ground	Sydney	48,000	4th test

Squad lists

The teams named the following squads.

test
Australia	India
Ian Chappell Alan Connolly Bob Cowper Eric Freeman John Gleeson Neil Hawke Barry Jarman Les Joslin Bill Lawry Graham McKenzie Ian Redpath David Renneberg Paul Sheahan Bob Simpson Doug Walters	Syed Abid Ali Bishan Bedi Chandu Borde Bhagwath Chandrasekhar Ramakant Desai Farokh Engineer Motganhalli Jaisimha Umesh Kulkarni Bapu Nadkarni Erapalli Prasanna Dilip Sardesai Venkataraman Subramanya Rusi Surti Ajit Wadekar Nawab of Pataudi

Testing

First test in Adelaide

December 23-28 Scorecard	Adelaide	Australia 335 (92.1) & 369 (88.5)	-	India 307 (71.4) & 251 (60.2)
		Australia wins with 146 runs

Second test in Melbourne

December 30th - January 3rd scorecard	Melbourne	India 173 (57.4) & 352 (84.7)	-	Australia 529 (105.3)
		Australia wins with one innings and 4 runs

Third test in Brisbane

January 19-24 Scorecard	Brisbane	Australia 379 (112.2) & 294 (83.4)	-	India 279 (100) & 355 (109.6)
		Australia wins with 39 runs

Fourth test in Sydney

January 26th - 31st Scorecard	Sydney	Australia 317 (86.6) & 292 (85.3)	-	India 268 (85.1) & 197 (73.6)
		Australia wins with 144 runs

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo