Indian 1st Cricket Test Match

First Indian cricket test match was played with England Team at Lord's London. First Indian cricket test match was started on 25th June 1932 as 3-day match. As it was the first test it was a debut match for all Indians. JG Navle, Naoomal Jaoomal, S Wazir Ali, CK Nayudu, SHM Colah, S Nazir Ali, Lall Singh, M Jahangir Khan, L Amar Singh, M Nissar & PE Palia had a debut match. Also WE Bowes of England had his debut match.

The toss was won by England and they have decided to bat first. England in their first innings made 259. The highest score was from England captain DR Jardine who made 79 runs. In first innings, India's fast medium bowler Mohammad Nissar excelled in bowling by taking 5 tickets for 93 runs in 23 overs. In return Inda made 189 runs, where India's captain scored 40 runs. Yorkshire fast medium bowler William Eric Bowes took 4 wickets for 49 runs in 30 overs.

In India's first cricket test match, England made 275 runs in their second innings. In this innings also England captain DR Jardine was the top scorer with 85 runs. In this Innings, Fast medium bowler Mohammad Jahangir Khan took 4 wickets for 60 runs in 30 overs. In return India could make only 187 runs and was all out in 59.3 overs. L Amar Singh was the top scorer who took 51 runs. WR Hammond took 3 wickets for 9 runs in 5.3 overs.

India had lost their first match to England by 158 runs.

England 1st Innings		Runs	4s	6s
P Holmes	b Nissar	6
H Sutcliffe	b Nissar	3
FE Woolley	run out	9
WR Hammond	b Amar Singh	35
DR Jardine*	c †Navle b Nayudu	79
E Paynter	lbw b Nayudu	14
LEG Ames†	b Nissar	65	9
RWV Robins	c Lall Singh b Nissar	21
FR Brown	c Amar Singh b Nissar	1
W Voce	not out	4
WE Bowes	c Nissar b Amar Singh	7
Extras	(b 3, lb 9, nb 3)	15
Total (all out in 105.1 overs)		259

Fall of wickets: 1-8 (Sutcliffe), 2-11 (Holmes), 3-19 (Woolley), 4-101 (Hammond), 5-149 (Paynter), 6-166 (Jardine), 7-229 (Robins), 8-231 (Brown), 9-252 (Ames), 10-259 (Bowes)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
M Nissar	26	3	93	5	3.57
L Amar Singh	31.1	10	75	2	2.40
M Jahangir Khan	17	7	26	0	1.52
CK Nayudu	24	8	40	2	1.66
PE Palia	4	3	2	0	0.50
Naoomal Jaoomal	3	0	8	0	2.66

India 1st Innings		Runs	4s	6s
JG Navle	b Bowes	12
Naoomal Jaoomal	lbw b Robins	33
S Wazir Ali	lbw b Brown	31
CK Nayudu	c Robins b Voce	40
SHM Colah	c Robins b Bowes	22
S Nazir Ali	b Bowes	13
PE Palia	b Voce	1
Lall Singh	c Jardine b Bowes	15
M Jahangir Khan	b Robins	1
L Amar Singh	c Robins b Voce	5
M Nissar	not out	12
Extras	(b 5, lb 7, w 1, nb 2)	15
Total (all out; 93 overs)		189

Fall of wickets: 1-39 (Navle), 2-63 (Naoomal Jaoomal), 3-110 (Wazir Ali), 4-139 (Nayudu), 5-160 (Colah), 6-165 (Nazir Ali),7-181 (Lall Singh), 8-182 (Jahangir Khan), 9-188 (Palia), 10-189 (Amar Singh)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
WE Bowes	30	13	49	4	1.63
W Voce	17	6	23	3	1.35
FR Brown	25	7	48	1	1.92
RWV Robins	17	4	39	2	2.29

England 2nd Innings		Runs	4s	6s
P Holmes	b Jahangir Khan	11
H Sutcliffe	c Nayudu b Amar Singh	19
FE Woolley	c Colah b Jahangir Khan	21
WR Hammond	b Jahangir Khan	12
DR Jardine	not out	85
E Paynter	b Jahangir Khan	54
LEG Ames	b Amar Singh	6
RWV Robins	c Jahangir Khan b Nissar	30
FR Brown	c Colah b Naoomal Jaoomal	29		1
W Voce	not out	0
P Holmes	b Jahangir Khan	11
Extras	(b 2, lb 6)	8
Total (8 wickets dec; 110 overs)	(2.50 runs per over)	275

Fall of wickets: 1-30 (Sutcliffe), 2-34 (Holmes), 3-54 (Hammond), 4-67 (Woolley), 5-156 (Paynter), 6-169 (Ames),7-222 (Robins), 8-271 (Brown)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
M Nissar	18	5	42	1	2.33
L Amar Singh	41	13	84	2	2.04
M Jahangir Khan	30	12	60	4	2.00
CK Nayudu	9	0	21	0	2.33
PE Palia	3	0	11	0	3.66
Naoomal Jaoomal	8	0	40	1	5.00
S Wazir Ali	1	0	9	0	9.00

India 2nd Innings		Runs	4s	6s
JG Navle	lbw b Robins	13
Naoomal Jaoomal	b Brown	25
S Wazir Ali	c Hammond b Voce	39
CK Nayudu	b Bowes	10
SHM Colah	b Brown	4
S Nazir Ali	c Jardine b Bowes	6
Lall Singh	b Hammond	29
M Jahangir Khan	b Voce	0
L Amar Singh	c & b Hammond	51		1
M Nissar	b Hammond	0
PE Palia	not out	1
Extras	(b 5, lb 2, nb 2)	9
Total (all out; 59.3 overs)	(3.14 runs per over)	187

Fall of wickets: 1-41 (Navle), 2-41 (Naoomal Jaoomal), 3-52 (Nayudu), 4-65 (Colah), 5-83 (Nazir Ali), 6-108 (Wazir Ali),7-108 (Jahangir Khan), 8-182 (Lall Singh), 9-182 (Nissar), 10-187 (Amar Singh)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
WE Bowes	14	5	30	2	2.14
W Voce	12	3	28	2	2.33
FR Brown	14	1	54	2	3.85
RWV Robins	14	5	57	1	4.07
WR Hammond	5.3	3	9	3	1.63

C.K.Nayudu - First Indian Cricket Test Team Captain

C.K. Nayudu ( Cottari Kanakiya Nayudu), the first captain of the Indian Test Cricket team and also the first cricket player of India to be honoured with Padma Bhushan award.

C.K. Nayudu was born on the 31st of October 1895 in Nagpur, Maharashtra. C.K. Nayudu started playing Cricket at an early age. He has captained the Cricket team of the Hislop Collegiate High School, Nagpur. C.K Nayudu was selected by the Modi Club, while he was studying in school and was selected as its captain.

First Class Cricket Career
C.K.Nayudu debuted the First Class Cricket in the year 1916 playing for Hindus against the Europeans. In that match, he came to bat at No. 9 when the score of his team 79 runs at a loss of 7 wickets. He had blocked the first 3 balls, and hit a 6 in the fourth one. C.K.Nayudu was invited by the ruler of Holkar to Indore in 1923 and was appointed as Captain of the ruler’s army.

International Test Cricket Career
C.K.Nayudu was the First Indian Cricket Test team captain which was played against England at Lord’s in the year 1932. In this first Indian cricket test match, C.K.Nayudu scored the highest score of 40 runs in the innings. Nayudu also played all the 26 First Class Cricket matches that were played in this tour, and scored 1,618 runs with a Batting Average of 40.45 runs. Overall, he scored 1,842 runs and grabbed 65 wickets during the whole tour. He played another six matches against England, three in the year 1933-34 and another three in the year 1936.

C.K.Nayudu’s Final First Class Cricket Match
C.K.Nayudu played his last Ranji Trophy Cricket match for Uttar Pradesh in the year 1956-57 at the age of 62, in which he scored 52 runs.

C.K.Nayudu’s final appearance was in a charity match in 1963-64, which he played for the Maharashtra Governor's XI against the Maharashtra Chief Minister's XI.

C.K.Nayudu died at the age of 72 on the 14th of November 1967 in Indore.

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	6s	Ct	St
Tests	7	14	0	350	81	25.00	0	2	1	4	0
First-class	207	344	15	11825	200	35.94	26	58	-	170	1

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	7	10	858	386	9	3/40	3/40	42.88	2.69	95.3	0	0	0
First-class	207		25,798	12,038	411	7/44		29.28	2.79	62.7		12	2