Match Details
Series
Toss
England , elected to bat first
Series result
England led the 5-match series 1-0
Match number
Season
Match days
4,5,6,8 June 1959 (5-day match)
04/06Result
1st Test, India tour of England at Nottingham, Jun 4-8 1959
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![England]( "England")
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![India]( "India")
206 & 157 (97.3 ov) (f/o)
04/06Result
1st Test, India tour of England at Nottingham, Jun 4-8 1959
-
![England]( "England")
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![India]( "India")
206 & 157 (97.3 ov) (f/o)
Match Centre
Scorecard Summary
ENGLAND 422 (143.2 OVERS)1ST INNINGS
- Godfrey Evans73 (73)
- Peter May106 (-)
- Subhash Gupte4/102 (38.1)
- Bapu Nadkarni2/48 (28.1)
INDIA 206 (102.5 OVERS)1ST INNINGS
- Datta Gaekwad33 (-)
- Pankaj Roy54 (-)
- Alan Moss2/33 (24)
- Fred Trueman4/45 (24)
INDIA 157 f/o (97.3 OVERS)2ND INNINGS
- Vijay Manjrekar44 (-)
- Pankaj Roy49 (-)
- Brian Statham5/31 (21)
- Fred Trueman2/44 (22.3)
India tour of England 1959 News
Ramakant Desai - The tiny titan
By 1959, at the end of a sorry decade for Indian cricket, not onlywere there no bowlers in the country who could bowl anythingabove military medium, but the batsmen also were getting bombardedby pacemen from other countries