Series: | Indian cricket team in West Indies in 1961–62 |
Date: | 16 February – 18 April 1962 |
Place: | West Indies |
Result: | West Indies won 5-Test series 5–0 |
Captain1: | Frank Worrell |
Captain2: | Nawab of Pataudi, Jr. |
Runs1: | Rohan Kanhai (500) Garfield Sobers (424) Easton McMorris (349) |
Runs2: | Polly Umrigar (445) Salim Durani (259) Rusi Surti (246) |
Wickets1: | Wes Hall (27) Lance Gibbs (24) Garfield Sobers (23) |
Wickets2: | Salim Durani (17) Bapu Nadkarni (9) Polly Umrigar (9) |
The Indian cricket team toured the West Indies during the 1961–62 season to play a five-match Test series against the West Indies. The tour also included four tour matches against the West Indies' first-class sides. The West Indies won the Test series 5–0. In the total of 12 games that India played, they won two, lost six and drew four.[1]
Nari Contractor, who was leading the India side during England's 1961–62 Asia tour, was again named captain on 11 January 1962 for the tour of the Caribbean by the BCCI.[2] The squad was announced on 16 January. Ghulam Ahmed was named the tour manager.[3]
The team members were:[4]