Series: | English cricket team in India in 1976-77 |
Date: | 29 November 1976 - 16 February 1977 |
Place: | India |
Result: | England won the 5-Test series 3-1 |
Captain1: | Bishan Singh Bedi |
Captain2: | Tony Greig |
Runs1: | Sunil Gavaskar (394) Brijesh Patel (286) Surinder Amarnath (180) |
Runs2: | Dennis Amiss (417) Tony Greig (342) Alan Knott (268) |
Wickets1: | Bishan Singh Bedi (25) Chandrasekhar (19) Erapalli Prasanna (18) |
Wickets2: | Derek Underwood (29) John Lever (26) Bob Willis (20) |
A cricket team from England, organised by the Marylebone Cricket Club, toured India and Sri Lanka in the 1976-77 cricket season. They played five Test matches against the India national cricket team, with England winning three matches, India winning one and the other one being drawn. The MCC team played four matches in Sri Lanka after leaving India, but Sri Lanka was not yet a Test-class team.