Australian cricket team in Ceylon and India in 1969-70

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The Australia national cricket team toured Ceylon and India in the last three months of 1969. The team, captained by Bill Lawry, played five Test matches against India. They also played first-class matches versus each of the five Indian Zone teams: Central, North, West, East and South.

In Ceylon, they played one first-class game, which was drawn, against Ceylon and three minor matches.

Australia won the Test series in India 3-1 with one match drawn.

[edit] Test series summary

• 1st Test @ Brabourne Stadium, Bombay – Australia won by 8 wickets
• 2nd Test @ Modi Stadium, Kanpur – match drawn
• 3rd Test @ Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi – India won by 7 wickets
• 4th Test @ Eden Gardens, Calcutta – Australia won by 10 wickets
• 5th Test @ MA Chidambaram Stadium, Madras – Australia won by 77 runs

[edit] External sources

• Ceylon itinerary
• India itinerary

[edit] Further reading

• Mihir Bose, A History of Indian Cricket, Andre-Deutsch, 1990
• Ramachandra Guha, A Corner of a Foreign Field - An Indian History of a British Sport, Picador, 2001
• Wisden Cricketers Almanack 1971

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