India v New Zealand
This is the First Test Match between India and New Zealand - Tour of 1955/56
Venue Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad on 19th, 20th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th November 1955 (5-day match)
Balls per over 6
Toss India won the toss and decided to bat
Result Match drawn
Umpires JR Patel, MG Vijayasarathi
Close of play day 1 India (1) 250/2 (Umrigar 112*, Manjrekar 102*)
Close of play day 2 New Zealand (1) 1/0 (Sutcliffe 1*, Petrie 0*)
Close of play day 3 New Zealand (1) 170/5 (Guy 57*, MacGibbon 2*)
Close of play day 4 New Zealand (1) 326 all out


India first innings Runs Balls Mins 4s 6s
MH Mankad c Alabaster b MacGibbon 30 - - - -
P Roy c Petrie b Hayes 0 - - - -
PR Umrigar c Petrie b Hayes 223 - 503 26 -
VL Manjrekar c MacGibbon b Hayes 118 - 235 20 -
AG Kripal Singh not out 100 - - -
GS Ramchand not out 12 - - - -
DG Phadkar did not bat
VN Swamy did not bat
+NS Tamhane did not bat
SP Gupte did not bat
*Ghulam Ahmed did not bat
Extras (8 b, 4 lb, 3 nb) 15
Total (4 wickets, declared, 175.1 overs) 498
Fall of wickets:
1-1 (Roy), 2-48 (Mankad), 3-286 (Manjrekar), 4-457 (Umrigar)
New Zealand bowling Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Wides No-Balls
Hayes 26    5 91 3 - -
MacGibbon 43.1 15 102 1 - -
Reid 16    2 63 0 - -
Cave 41    20 59 0 - -
Alabaster 31    5 96 0 - -
Poore 9    2 36 0 - -
Sutcliffe 9    1 36 0 - -

New Zealand first innings Runs Balls Mins 4s 6s
B Sutcliffe c Umrigar b Gupte 17 - - - --
+EC Petrie b Gupte 15 - - - -
JW Guy c Ghulam Ahmed b Mankad 102 - 465 13 -
JR Reid lbw b Ramchand 54 - 115 9 -
SN McGregor st Tamhane b Gupte 19 - - - -
NS Harford lbw b Gupte 4 - - - -
AR MacGibbon c Kripal Singh b Ghulam Ahmed 59 - - 8 -
MB Poore lbw b Gupte 23 - - - -
*HB Cave st Tamhane b Gupte 14 - - - -
JC Alabaster lbw b Gupte 11 - - - -
JA Hayes not out 1 - - - -
Extras (2 b, 5 lb) 7
Total (all out, 209.4 overs) 326
Fall of wickets:
1-27 (Sutcliffe), 2-36 (Petrie), 3-119 (Reid), 4-154 (McGregor), 5-166 (Harford), 6-253 (MacGibbon), 7-292 (Guy), 8-305 (Poore), 9-325 (Cave), 10-326 (Alabaster, 209.4 ov)
India bowling Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Wides No-Balls
Phadkar 25    11 34 0 - -
Swamy 8    2 15 0 - -
Gupte 76.4 35 128 7 - -
Ghulam Ahmed 39    15 56 1 - -
Mankad 36    16 48 1 - -
Ramchand 20    12 33 1 - -
Kripal Singh 1    0 5 0 - -
Umrigar 4    4 0 0 - -

New Zealand second innings (following on) Runs Balls Mins 4s 6s
B Sutcliffe not out 137 - 300 15 -
+EC Petrie lbw b Gupte 4 - - - -
JW Guy c Ghulam Ahmed b Mankad 21 - - - -
JR Reid not out 45 - - - 2
SN McGregor did not bat
NS Harford did not bat
AR MacGibbon did not bat
MB Poore did not bat
*HB Cave did not bat
JC Alabaster did not bat
JA Hayes did not bat
Extras (2 b, 2 lb, 1 nb) 5
Total (2 wickets, 92 overs) 212
Fall of wickets:
1-42 (Petrie), 2-104 (Guy)
India bowling Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Wides No-Balls
Phadkar 12    5 24 0 - -
Swamy 10    3 30 0 - -
Gupte 18    7 28 1 - -
Ghulam Ahmed 13    2 36 0 - -
Mankad 25    7 75 1 - -
Ramchand 14    7 14 0 - -