A Commonwealth XI cricket team toured Ceylon, India and Pakistan from October 1949 to March 1950 and played 21 first-class matches, including five against an All-India XI. [1]
Captained by Jock Livingston, who also kept wicket in some games, the team had several well-known players including Frank Worrell, George Tribe, Bill Alley, Cec Pepper, George Dawkes and George Pope. Most of the players were professionals in the Lancashire League or the Central Lancashire League. About half the team were Australians, two were West Indians, and the rest were English. [2]
The first-class matches are numbered.
No. | Date | Opponents | Venue | Result | Ref |
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1 | 9β11 October | Indian Universities | Brabourne Stadium, Bombay | Drawn | [3] |
2 | 15β16 October | Western India States | Commerce College Ground, Ahmedabad | Won by an innings and 122 runs | [4] |
3 | 21β23 October | Holkar | Yeshwant Club Ground, Indore | Won by one wicket | [5] |
4 | 29 Octoberβ1 November | North Zone | Baradari Ground, Patiala | Drawn | [6] |
5 | 5β7 November | Services | Irwin Stadium, Delhi | Won by ten wickets | [7] |
6 | 11β15 November | INDIA (1st "Test") | Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi | Won by nine wickets | [8] |
18β19 November | North West Frontier Province Governorβs XI | Peshawar Club Ground, Peshawar | Drawn | [9] | |
21β22 November | Commander-in-Chiefβs XI | Pindi Club Ground, Rawalpindi | Drawn | [10] | |
7 | 25β27 November | Pakistan | Bagh-e-Jinnah, Lahore | Won by an innings and 177 runs | [11] |
8 | 2β4 December | Karachi and Sind | Karachi Gymkhana Ground, Karachi | Won by six wickets | [12] |
6β7 December | Pakistan Universities | Karachi | Drawn | [13] | |
9 | 10β13 December | West Zone | Club of Maharashtra, Poona | Drawn | [14] |
10 | 16β20 December | INDIA (2nd "Test") | Brabourne Stadium, Bombay | Drawn | [15] |
11 | 24β27 December | Bengal Governorβs XI | Eden Gardens, Calcutta | Won by ten wickets | [16] |
12 | 30 Decemberβ3 January | INDIA (3rd "Test") | Eden Gardens, Calcutta | Lost by seven wickets | [17] |
13 | 7β9 January | East Zone | Keenan Stadium, Jamshedpur | Won by ten wickets | [18] |
14 | 14β18 January | INDIA (4th "Test") | Modi Stadium, Kanpur | Drawn | [19] |
15 | 21β23 January | Central Province Governor's XI | Central Provinces Gymkhana Ground, Nagpur | Drawn | [20] |
16 | 27β29 January | Cricket Club of India | Brabourne Stadium, Bombay | Drawn | [21] |
1β2 February | India Schools | Brabourne Stadium, Bombay | Drawn | [22] | |
17 | 4β6 February | Bombay | Brabourne Stadium, Bombay | Drawn | [23] |
18 | 10β13 February | South Zone | Gymkhana Ground, Secunderabad | Won by seven wickets | [24] |
19 | 17β21 February | INDIA (5th "Test") | Madras Cricket Club Ground, Madras | Lost by three wickets | [25] |
23 February | Central Province | Kandy | Won by seven wickets | [26] | |
20 | 25β27 February | Ceylon | Colombo Oval, Colombo | Won by an innings and 51 runs | [27] |
1β2 March | Ceylon XI | Colombo | Drawn | [28] | |
21 | 4β6 March | Ceylon, India and Pakistan Combined XI | Colombo Oval, Colombo | Drawn | [29] |
10β12 March | Raja Maharaj Singhβs XII [notes 1] | Brabourne Stadium, Bombay | Won by six wickets | [30] |