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Australia Tour to Ceylon and India 1935/36. ‘Official Souvenir of the Visit to India of H.H. the Maharajadhiraj of Patiala’s Team of Australian Cricketers 1936’. 30th Nov. to 8th Dec. 1935’. Official brochure compiled by C.D. Parthasarathy, edited and published by ‘The Field- Madras (An All-Sports Journal)’, Madras. Bound in cloth boards, gilt title to spine, with original decorative colour wrappers retained. Lavishly illustrated with portraits and text on members of the opposing teams. Indian players include Duleepsinhji, Nawab of Pataudi, C.K. Nayudu, Wazir Ali, Amarnath, Merchant, C.S. Nayudu etc., and Australians Ryder, Macartney, Hendry, Oxenham, Ellis, Nagel, Bill, Bryant etc. The results are given for the matches played before the Madras leg with an analysis of each of the tourists’ performances. Bound in to the book is an official scorecard of the match v Madras played 2nd- 4th February 1936, with the players listed at the start of play. A similar brochure for the Bombay leg of the tour was sold by Knights as Lot 389 in the sale of February 2016. Minor soiling to the original wrappers, small worm damage and slight staining to the cloth boards, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Very rare.
This was a secondary tour by Australia whose ‘first team’ had gone to South Africa. The team in India and Ceylon therefore played first-class matches only and not Test cricket. The team was managed by Frank Tarrant and captained by Jack Ryder and included Charlie Macartney, Bert Ironmonger, Hunter Hendry and Lisle Nagel. The tour began in October 1935 in Colombo with one first-class match against Ceylon, which the Australians won by an innings and 127 runs. From November 1935 to February 1936, the team played 16 first-class matches in India, including four matches against an All-India XI. Ironmonger’s last appearance in a first-class game was the match v India when he took 5 for 70 in India’s second innings. Padwick refers to several pre-tour publications covering other stages of the Australian tour. This publication, which is not listed, covers the Madras section with two matches played by the Australians against Madras and against India.

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