Indian national cricket team in England in the 1971 season

The Indian national cricket team's tour to England in the 1971 season took place from July 22 to August 24, 1971. The international cricket tour was part of the 1971 international cricket season and included three tests . India won the series 1–0.

prehistory

England previously played a tour against Pakistan , India's first tour of the season. The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in England in the 1967 season .

Stages

London (Lord's) London (oval) Manchester

Tour venues

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

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
The oval	London	23,500	3rd test
Lord's Cricket Ground	London	30,000	1st test
Old Trafford Cricket Ground	Manchester	19,000	2nd test

Squad lists

The two teams named the following squads.

test
England	India
Dennis Amiss Geoff Boycott Basil D'Oliveira John Edrich Keith Fletcher Norman Gifford Richard Hutton Richard Illingworth John Jameson Alan Knott John Lever John Luckhurst John Price John Snow Derek Underwood	Syed AbidAli Bishan Bedi Bhagwath Chandrasekhar Farokh Engineer Sunil Gavaskar Ashok Mankad Dilip Sardesai Eknath Solkar Srinivas Venkataraghavan Sadanand Viswanath Ajit Wadekar

Tour matches

India played 16 tour matches during the tour.

Testing

First test in London

June 22-27 scorecard	London (Lord's)	England 304 (139.3) & 191 (98.5)	-	India 313 (165.3) & 145-8 (50)
		draw

Second test in Manchester

August 5-10 scorecard	Manchester	England 386 (160.4) & 245-3d (66)	-	India 212 (93) & 65-3 (27)
		draw

Third test in London

August 19-24 Scorecard	London (oval)	England 355 (108.4) & 101 (45.1)	-	India 284 (117.3) & 174-6 (101)
		India wins with 4 wickets

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo