# Indian cricket team in Australia in 1967–68

The India national cricket team toured Australia in the 1967–68 season and played a four-match Test series against Australia. Australia won the Test series 4–0.
In all first-class matches, the Indians lost to Western Australia and South Australia, and drew with Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales. The first-class match against Queensland was abandoned without a ball being bowled.
The Indians went on after this tour to play four Test matches and two other games in New Zealand – see Indian cricket team in New Zealand in 1967-68.

## Indian team

* Nawab of Pataudi (captain)
* Chandu Borde (vice-captain)
* Syed Abid Ali
* Bishan Bedi
* Bhagwat Chandrasekhar
* Ramakant Desai
* Farokh Engineer
* Indrajitsinhji
* M. L. Jaisimha
* Umesh Kulkarni
* Bapu Nadkarni
* Erapalli Prasanna
* Dilip Sardesai
* Ramesh Saxena
* Venkataraman Subramanya
* Rusi Surti
* Ajit Wadekar
The manager was Ghulam Ahmed.
India's squad of 16 members for the tour of Australia and New Zealand was announced on 8 November 1967. Five changes were made from the side that toured England earlier that year — Subrata Guha, Sadanand Mohol, Budhi Kunderan, Hanumant Singh and S. Venkataraghavan were replaced by Ramakant Desai, Umesh Kulkarni, Indrajitsinhji, Bapu Nadkarni and Syed Abid Ali.
All the players had played Tests before except for Abid Ali and Kulkarni, who made their debuts in the Tests against Australia. Jaisimha was not in the original team, but was added to the side after the Second Test.

## Tour games
### One-day: Western Australia Country v Indians

* 22 November 1967 Scorecard
| Indians 259/4d (41.7 overs) | v | Western Australia Country 186/5 (39 overs) |
| Ajit Wadekar 96 John McCormack 1/16 (2 overs) | | Merv Hosking 52 V. Subramanya 3/60 (10 overs) |
* Match drawn Harvey, Perth Umpires: J. H. Blyth and W. I. Carter
* Western Australia Country won the toss and elected to field.
The Western Australia Country side was captained by Merv Hosking who won the toss and sent the Indians to bat first. Ajit Wadekar top-scored for the Indians making 96, which included 16 boundaries. They declared the innings after scoring 259 in almost three hours. In reply, Western Australia Country ended at 5/189 at stumps. Hosking and Barry Pascoe put together 88 runs for the first wicket.

## Test series
### First test

* 23–28 December 1967 Scorecard
* Australia won by 146 runs Adelaide Oval, Adelaide Umpires: Colin Egar (Aus) and Lou Rowan
* Australia won the toss and decided to bat.
* Paul Sheahan and John Gleeson (both Aus), and Syed Abid Ali and Umesh Kulkarni (both Ind) all made their debut in Tests.
* 24 December was a rest day.

### Second Test

* 30 Dec-3 Jan 1968 Scorecard
* Australia won by an innings and 4 runs Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Umpires: CJ Egar, LP Rowan
* India won the toss and decided to bat

### Third Test

* 19–24 January 1968 scorecard
* Australia won by 39 runs Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane Umpires: CJ Egar, LP Rowan
* India won the toss and decided to field

### Fourth Test

* 26–31 January 1968 Scorecard
* Australia won by 144 runs Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Umpires: CJ Egar, LP Rowan
* India won the toss and decided to field