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{{Infobox cricket series<br />
|series=Indian cricket team in England in 1967<br />
|image=<br />
|caption=<br />
|date=29 April – 23 July 1967<br />
|place=England<br />
|result=England won the series 3–0<br />
|player of series=<br />
|team1={{cr|ENG}}<br />
|team2={{cr|IND}}<br />
|captain1=[[Brian Close]]<br />
|captain2=[[MAK Pataudi]]<br />
|runs1=[[Ken Barrington]] (324)<br />
|runs2=[[MAK Pataudi]] (269)<br />
|wickets1=[[Ray Illingworth]] (20)<br />
|wickets2=[[BS Chandrasekhar]] (16)<br />
|notes=<br />
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The [[Indian national cricket team|Indian cricket team]] toured England in the 1967 season and played 18 [[first-class cricket|first-class]] fixtures, winning only two, losing 7 and drawing 9.<br />
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India played three [[Test cricket|Test matches]] and lost the series to [[England cricket team|England]] 3-0. The Indian team was captained by [[Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi]], while [[Brian Close]] led the England side. England won the First Test by 6 wickets at [[Headingley Cricket Ground|Headingley]]; the Second at [[Lord's]] by an innings and 124 runs; and the Third at [[Edgbaston Cricket Ground|Edgbaston]] by 132 runs.<br />
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==Test series==<br />
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===First Test===<br />
{{Test match<br />
| date =8–13 June 1967<br />
| team1 ={{cr-rt|England}}<br />
| team2 ={{cr|India}}<br />
<br />
| score-team1-inns1 =550/4[[Declaration and forfeiture#Declaration|d]] (183 overs)<br />
| runs-team1-inns1 =[[Geoff Boycott]] 246 (555)<br />
| wickets-team1-inns1 =[[BS Chandrasekhar]] 2/121 (45 overs)<br />
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| score-team2-inns1 =164 (87.2 overs)<br />
| runs-team2-inns1 =[[MAK Pataudi]] 64 (206)<br />
| wickets-team2-inns1 =[[Ray Illingworth]] 3/31 (22 overs)<br />
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| score-team2-inns2 =510 (209.2 overs)<br />
| runs-team2-inns2 =[[MAK Pataudi]] 148 (348)<br />
| wickets-team2-inns2 =[[Ray Illingworth]] 4/100 (58 overs)<br />
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| score-team1-inns2 =126/4 (47.3 overs)<br />
| runs-team1-inns2 =[[Ken Barrington]] 46 (106)<br />
| wickets-team1-inns2 =[[BS Chandrasekhar]] 3/50 (19 overs)<br />
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| result =England won by 6 wickets<br />
| venue =[[Headingley Cricket Ground|Headingley]], [[Leeds]]<br />
| umpires =[[Charlie Elliott]] (Eng) and [[Hugo Yarnold]] (Eng)<br />
| report =[http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/63004.html Scorecard]<br />
| toss =England won the toss and elected to bat.<br />
| notes = [[Robin Hobbs]] (Eng), and [[Subrata Guha]] and [[Ramesh Saxena]] (Ind) made their Test debuts.<br />
*''[[Basil D'Oliveira]] (Eng) scored his first [[Century (cricket)|century]] in Tests.''<ref name="CA1Test">{{cite web |title=India in British Isles 1967 (1st Test) |url=http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/28/28800.html |website=CricketArchive |access-date=15 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000932/http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/28/28800.html |archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref><br />
*''[[Geoff Boycott]]'s (Eng) 246 was the highest score for any batsman in Tests between India and England.''<ref>{{cite web |last1=Preston |first1=Norman |author-link1=Norman Preston |title=First Test, England v India |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/152387.html |website=Wisden |publisher=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=15 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120926014311/http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/152387.html |archive-date=26 September 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref><br />
*''11 June was a [[Glossary of cricket terms#rest day|rest day]].''<br />
*''[[BS Chandrasekhar]] (Ind) claimed his 50th wicket in Tests.''<ref name="CA1Test"/><br />
}}<br />
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===Second Test===<br />
{{Test match<br />
| date =22–26 June 1967<br />
| team1 ={{cr-rt|India}}<br />
| team2 ={{cr|England}}<br />
<br />
| score-team1-inns1 =152 (55.4 overs)<br />
| runs-team1-inns1 =[[Ajit Wadekar]] 57 (97)<br />
| wickets-team1-inns1 =[[John Snow (cricketer)|John Snow]] 3/49 (20.4 overs)<br />
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| score-team2-inns1 =386 (154.2 overs)<br />
| runs-team2-inns1 =[[Tom Graveney]] 151 (308)<br />
| wickets-team2-inns1 =[[Bhagwat Chandrasekhar]] 5/127 (53 overs)<br />
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| score-team1-inns2 =110 (56.3 overs)<br />
| runs-team1-inns2 =[[Budhi Kunderan]] 47 (164)<br />
| wickets-team1-inns2 =[[Ray Illingworth]] 6/29 (22.3 overs)<br />
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| result =England won by an innings and 124 runs<br />
| venue =[[Lord's]], [[London]]<br />
| umpires =[[Syd Buller]] (Eng) and [[Arthur Jepson]] (Eng)<br />
| report =[http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/63005.html Scorecard]<br />
| toss =India won the toss and elected to bat.<br />
| rain =<br />
| notes = 25 June was a rest day.<br />
*''[[John Murray (cricketer, born 1935)|John Murray]] (Eng) equalled the record for most catches by a wicket-keeper in an innings in Tests (6),<ref>{{cite web |last1=Preston |first1=Norman |title=Second Test, England v India |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/152388.html |work=Wisden |publisher=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=15 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811035815/http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/152388.html |archive-date=11 August 2011}}</ref> before [[Wasim Bari]] took 7 in [[Pakistani cricket team in New Zealand in 1978–79|1979]].''<ref>{{cite web |title=Third Test Match, New Zealand v Pakistan |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/152194.html |work=Wisden |publisher=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=15 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106210554/http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/152194.html |archive-date=6 November 2012}}</ref><br />
*''[[Ray Illingworth]] (Eng) claimed his first [[five-wicket haul]] in Tests.''<ref>{{cite web |title=India in British Isles 1967 (2nd Test) |url=http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/28/28852.html |website=CricketArchive |access-date=15 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304041903/http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/28/28852.html |archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref><br />
}}<br />
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===Third Test===<br />
{{Test match<br />
| date =13–15 July 1967<br />
| team1 ={{cr-rt|England}}<br />
| team2 ={{cr|India}}<br />
<br />
| score-team1-inns1 =298 (106 overs)<br />
| runs-team1-inns1 =[[John Murray (cricketer, born 1935)|John Murray]] 77 (145)<br />
| wickets-team1-inns1 =[[Erapalli Prasanna]] 3/51 (20 overs)<br />
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| score-team2-inns1 =92 (36.3 overs)<br />
| runs-team2-inns1 =[[Farokh Engineer]] 23 (45)<br />
| wickets-team2-inns1 =[[David J. Brown (cricketer, born 1942)|David Brown]] 3/17 (11 overs)<br />
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| score-team1-inns2 =203 (76.5 overs)<br />
| runs-team1-inns2 =[[Brian Close]] 47 (85)<br />
| wickets-team1-inns2 =[[Erapalli Prasanna]] 4/60 (24 overs)<br />
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| score-team2-inns2 =277 (112.4 overs)<br />
| runs-team2-inns2 =[[Ajit Wadekar]] 70 (214)<br />
| wickets-team2-inns2 =[[Brian Close]] 4/68 (21.4 overs)<br />
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| result =England won by 132 runs<br />
| venue =[[Edgbaston Cricket Ground|Edgbaston]], [[Birmingham]]<br />
| umpires =[[Arthur Fagg]] (Eng) and [[Fred Price (cricketer)|Fred Price]] (Eng)<br />
| report =[http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/63006.html Scorecard]<br />
| toss =England won the toss and elected to bat.<br />
| rain =<br />
| notes = India's 92 in the first innings was their lowest total in a Test innings [[Indian cricket team in England in 1952#Third Test|in 15 years]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Third Test, England v India 1967 |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/153702.html |website=Wisden |publisher=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=15 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110102055953/http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/153702.html |archive-date=2 January 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref><br />
*''[[Ray Illingworth]] (Eng) claimed his 50th wicket in Tests.''<ref>{{cite web |title=India in British Isles 1967 (3rd Test) |url=http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/28/28932.html |website=CricketArchive |access-date=15 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214183324/http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/28/28932.html |archive-date=14 February 2017}}</ref> <br />
}}<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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==Annual reviews==<br />
* [[Playfair Cricket Annual]] 1968<br />
* [[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack]] 1968<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* [[Bill Frindall]], ''The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877-1978'', Wisden, 1979<br />
* {{cite book |last1=Guha |first1=Ramachandra |author-link1=Ramachandra Guha |title=A Corner of a Foreign Field |date=2002 |publisher=[[Picador (imprint)|Picador]] |isbn=9780330491167 |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Corner_of_a_Foreign_Field.html?id=6hGeQgAACAAJ}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1960S/1967/IND_IN_ENG/ Tour home] at [[ESPNcricinfo]] archive<br />
* {{Cricketarchive|ref=Archive/Events/0/India_in_British_Isles_1967|name=India in British Isles 1967}}<br />
* [http://test-cricket-tours.co.uk/page_2630641.html India to England 1967] at test-cricket-tours.co.uk<br />
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