Australian cricket team in Pakistan in 1956–57

The Australian national cricket team visited Pakistan in October 1956 and played a single Test match against the Pakistani national cricket team. Pakistan won the Test series 1–0. Australia were captained by Ian Johnson and Pakistan by Abdul Hafeez Kardar.^[1] The Test match was the first between the two teams.^[2] The opening day's play was the slowest in the history of Test cricket, with just 95 runs scored.^[2]

Test series

Only Test

11, 12, 13, 15, 17 October 1956
(5-day match)
Scorecard

Australia	v	Pakistan
80 (53.1 overs) KR Miller 21 Fazal Mahmood 6/34 (27 overs)		199 (91.3 overs) AH Kardar 69 IWG Johnson 4/50 (20.3 overs)
187 (109.5 overs) R Benaud 56 Fazal Mahmood 7/80 (48 overs)		69/1 (48.4 overs) Alimuddin 34* AK Davidson 1/9 (9 overs)

Pakistan won by 9 wickets
National Stadium, Karachi
Umpires: Daud Khan and Idrees Baig

Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
14 and 16 October were taken as rest days.

References

^ "Australia in Pakistan 1956". CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
^ ^a ^b "An insomniac's dream". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 13 October 2017.

External links

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[CATI-1] "Australia in Pakistan 1956". CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 June 2014.

[OTD-2] "An insomniac's dream". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 13 October 2017.

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