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