The Indian Team
The team consisted of 17 players, and that rose to 18 when Abbas Ali Baig was recruited at the end of the Oxford University cricket season to take the place of the injured Vijay Manjrekar. The team was captained by Datta Gaekwad and managed by the Maharaja of Baroda, himself a cricketer for Baroda and at 29 younger than several of the team.
The team was:
- Datta Gaekwad, captain
- Pankaj Roy, vice-captain
- Arvind Apte
- Abbas Ali Baig
- Chandu Borde
- Nari Contractor
- Ramakant Desai
- Jayasinghrao Ghorpade
- Subhash Gupte
- M. L. Jaisimha
- Nana Joshi, wicketkeeper
- A. G. Kripal Singh
- Vijay Manjrekar
- V. M. Muddiah
- Bapu Nadkarni
- Surendranath
- Naren Tamhane, wicketkeeper
- Polly Umrigar
Gaekwad, Roy, Manjrekar and Umrigar had been members of the 1952 Indian team in England. Though the team as a whole was not experienced, all except Apte, Baig, Jaisimha and Muddiah had played Test cricket before the tour, and 17 of the 18 players appeared in the 1959 Test series. The exception was Muddiah, who remained uncapped by India until the following winter.
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