The
Pakistan national cricket team
The Pakistan national cricket team or Pak cricket team, often referred to as the Shaheens (), Green Shirts, Men in Green and Cornered Tigers is administered by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). The team is a Full Member of the International ...
toured Australia in the 1964–65 season and played 4 first-class matches, including the inaugural
Test match Test match in some sports refers to a sporting contest between national representative teams and may refer to:
* Test cricket
* Test match (indoor cricket)
* Test match (rugby union)
* Test match (rugby league)
* Test match (association football)
...
between
Australia and Pakistan in Australia. The two countries had already played each other in Pakistan.
During this tour,
Arif Butt became the first Pakistani player to take a
five-wicket haul on his Test debut, taking six wickets for 89
runs.
Test match summary
References
Annual reviews
*
Playfair Cricket Annual
''Playfair Cricket Annual'' is a compact annual about cricket that is published in the United Kingdom each April, just before the English cricket season is due to begin. It has been published every year since 1948. Its main purposes are to revie ...
1965
*
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', or simply ''Wisden'', colloquially the Bible of Cricket, is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom. The description "bible of cricket" was first used in the 1930s by Alec Waugh in a ...
1965
Further reading
*
Bill Frindall
William Howard Frindall, (3 March 1939 – 29 January 2009) was an English cricket scorer and statistician, who was familiar to cricket followers as a member of the Test Match Special commentary team on BBC radio. He was nicknamed the Bearded ...
, ''The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877-1978'', Wisden, 1979
* Chris Harte, ''A History of Australian Cricket'', André Deutsch, 1993
* Ray Robinson, ''On Top Down Under'', Cassell, 1975
External links
CricketArchive – tour summaries
1964 in Australian cricket
1964 in Pakistani cricket
1965 in Australian cricket
1965 in Pakistani cricket
Australian cricket seasons from 1945–46 to 1969–70
International cricket competitions from 1960–61 to 1970
1964-65
{{Australia-cricket-tour-stub