English cricket team in Pakistan in 1955–56

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An English cricket team sponsored by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) visited Pakistan from December 1955 to February 1956 and played fourteen first-class matches including four against the Pakistan national cricket team. [1]

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The team

Thomson was not in the original team. He replaced the injured Cowan midway through the tour. [2]

Pakistan v MCC series summary

Idrees Baig incident

On the third evening of the match against Pakistan in Peshawar, some of the English players, fed up with what they regarded as the Pakistani umpire Idrees Baig's pomposity on the field and his bias in favour of Pakistan, kidnapped him, took him back to their hotel and tipped a bucket of water over him. The incident caused outrage in Pakistan and almost led to the abandonment of the tour, but diplomacy by the MCC president, Lord Alexander, and Iskander Mirza, the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in Pakistan, smoothed things over sufficiently to allow the tour to continue. [7] [8] [9] [10]

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References

  1. "MCC in Pakistan 1955–56". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  2. Wisden 1957, p. 794.
  3. "Pakistan v MCC, first match 1956". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  4. "Pakistan v MCC, second match 1956". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  5. "Pakistan v MCC, third match 1956". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  6. "Pakistan v MCC, fourth match1956". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  7. Peter Oborne, Wounded Tiger: The History of Cricket in Pakistan, Simon & Schuster, London, 2014, pp. 111-132.
  8. Bull, Andy (12 July 2016). "From 'torturing' an umpire to spot-fixing, England v Pakistan: a difficult rivalry". The Guardian . Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  9. Williamson, Martin (5 November 2005). "The umpire and bucket controversy". ESPN Cricinfo . Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  10. "M.C.C. and Pakistan". The Cricketer (Spring Annual): 16. 1956.

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