Australian cricket team in India in 1956–57

Australia cricket team in India in 1956–57
	Australia	India
Dates	19 October – 6 November 1956
Captains	Ian Johnson	Polly Umrigar
Test series
Result	Australia won the 3-match series 2–0
Most runs	Neil Harvey (253)	Vijay Manjrekar (197)
Most wickets	Richie Benaud (23)	Ghulam Ahmed (12)

The Australia national cricket team toured India in the 1956–57 season.^[1] Three Test matches were played, Australia winning the series 2–0 with one match drawn.

19–23 October 1956 scorecard

India	v	Australia
161 (99.3 overs) Vijay Manjrekar 41 Richie Benaud 7/72 (29.3 overs)		319 (134.3 overs) Ian Johnson 73 Vinoo Mankad 4/90 (45 overs)
153 (63.5 overs) Gulabrai Ramchand 28 Ray Lindwall 7/43 (22.5 overs)

Australia won by an innings and 5 runs Nehru Stadium, Madras Umpires: Dinkar Desai (Ind) and Mysore Vijayasarathi (Ind)

• India won the toss and decided to bat

26–31 October 1956 scorecard

India	v	Australia
251 (100.2 overs) Gulabrai Ramchand 109 Ken Mackay 3/27 (14.2 overs)		523/7 d. (180 overs) Jim Burke 161 Subhash Gupte 3/115 (38 overs)
250/5 (137 overs) Pankaj Roy 79 Richie Benaud 2/98 (42 overs)

Match drawn Brabourne Stadium, Bombay Umpires: Bapu Joshi (Ind) and Balkrishna Mohoni (Ind)

• India won the toss and decided to bat
• John Rutherford and Jack Wilson (Aus) made their Test debuts.

2–6 November 1956 scorecard

Australia	v	India
177 (86.3 overs) Peter Burge 58 Ghulam Ahmed 7/49 (20.3 overs)		136 (78.2 overs) Vijay Manjrekar 33 Richie Benaud 6/52 (29 overs)
189/9 d. (67.4 overs) Neil Harvey 69 Vinoo Mankad 4/49 (9.4 overs)		136 (69.2 overs) Polly Umrigar 28 Richie Benaud 5/53 (24.2 overs)

Australia won by 94 runs Eden Gardens, Calcutta Umpires: George Ayling (Ind) and Balkrishna Mohoni (Ind)

• India won the toss and decided to field

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