AJ O'Riordan returned as captain and GA Duffy, R Torrens and IJ Anderson also were selected. B Donaghy was not considered and D Leng, RW Harrison and A McQuilken were not selected.

Beset by injuries and bad weather in May, the Indians did badly in England. They lost all three tests and also to Kent, Surrey, Yorkshire and Leicestershire. They beat Cambridge University and Derbyshire. They were led by the 26-year-old Nawab of Pataudi who made a century in the first test. Wadeker, a left-hander, scored half centuries in all three tests and Chandasekhar was the most successful bowler. With an arm withered by polio he bowled leg breaks and googlies. The Indians played their best available side against Ireland except for Engineer, the first choice opener and wicket-keeper. The match was played before good crowds in fine weather and provided some splendid cricket. The declaration giving the Indians 156 to make in 115 minutes was perhaps too generous but it was a most entertaining 115 minutes.

Pigot and McCall got Ireland away to another reasonable start against the gentle medium pace of Surti and Subramanya. Pigot hit the latter for a two and a four in his first over. However, he was not timing well on a wicket in which the ball was inclined to stick. Bedi, a Sikh who bowled slow left arm in a turban, and Chandrasekhar were soon on. The latter bowled to a leg side field of six. In his fourth over Chandrasekhar bowled a sharp leg break and McCall was caught at the wicket. 32-1-9. 34 up in an hour but one run later Pigot popped a simple catch to forward short leg off Chandrasekhar. 35-2-23. Anderson came in and dragged his second ball onto the wicket from wide on the off side. Off the last ball of the over Monteith (his first ball) gave a sharp chance to short square leg. A good over! At 39 Monteith, now three, was dropped at backward short leg off Chandrasekhar. Pataudi bowling off spin, came on for the latter at 41. It was Subramanya, bowling leg breaks, who took the next wicket. At 49 he had Monteith stumped reaching out. O'Brien was now missing a lot of bad balls or hitting them at the fielders. Bedi and Chandrasekhar came back and the latter bowled O'Riordan who was trying to force off the back foot. 65-5-7. Duffy and O'Brien were together at lunch. In two hours only 76 were scored and O'Brien was in for 75 minutes for 22. 45 overs had been bowled.

Chandrasekhar and Bedi began the bowling after lunch. The score went up to 90 when Duffy hit a ball to extra cover, misjudged its pace and called a run. O'Brien, 28, was run out by yards. Hunter then came in and a very good stand followed. 100 came up in 152 minutes. Both players played well despite many bowling changes. The 50 stand took only 42 minutes. After 76 overs, with the score on 150-6, the new ball was taken by Surti and Pataudi. Eventually, with a declaration pending, Hunter skied Pataudi to mid-off giving him his first wicket of the tour. Hunter batted 85 minutes for his 48 and the stand of 96 was the best for the seventh wicket for 41 years. At 194 Goodwin was caught at deep mid-off and the declaration came at 4:02 pm. Duffy was 52 not out. This was easily his best innings for Ireland to date scored in 125 minutes. India tried six bowlers and the accurate Chandrasekhar took 4-45 in 22 overs.

Raymond Hunter, Dermott Monteith, Gerry Duffy and Roy Torrens

O'Riordan bowled the first ball of the Indian innings and bowled Kunderam off his pads. With the fourth ball of his next over he knocked over Pataudi's off stump. 1-2. Borde, the only 1959 tourist still in the team, hit the next two balls for four and three. Surti batted slowly and was bowled in O'Riordan's sixth over by a ball that kept low. 32-3-12. Torrens went off after seven overs and Goodwin came on. O'Riordan continued to bowl and in his 12th over had Hanumant Singh LBW attempting to glance. 60-4-10. Borde reached 50 out of 75 after 79 minutes with eight fours. Eventually after 90 minutes and 15 overs O'Riordan came off. He had 4-34 in a fine spell of bowling but surely too long a spell. By close of play, after 124 minutes, the score was 106-4, Borde 74 and Subramanya seven - the latter was in for 50 minutes.

O'Riordan and Torrens began next day and Borde scored seven in Torrens' first over. In his fifth over O'Riordan was hit for a magnificent straight six by Subramanya and immediately took himself off. Borde reached 100 after 23 minutes play and 135 minutes in all. The last four overs of the innings produced 44 runs including another great six by Subramanya over extra cover's head off Goodwin. Eventually Duffy bowled Subramanya when he was halfway down the wicket. Hunter made one great effort to catch him at mid-off in which he injured his hand. After only 46 minutes play and with 81 added the Indians declared seven runs behind. Borde's 114 not out in 158 minutes contained 17 four's.

Surti and Pataudi shared the new ball to Pigot and McCall. They pushed the score along quite well and scored 49 in 62 minutes. The spinners had come on and Pataudi at slip had dropped Pigot off Venkatraghavan at 44. Five minutes before lunch Pigot pushed at Bedi and was caught at the wicket. 49-1-12. At lunch the score was 52-1, McCall 33 O'Brien 0.

McCall hit Bedi for a six over long-on. In Bedi's next over he tried another big shot and was caught at the wicket off the handle. 64-2-40. O'Brien and Anderson added 20 in even time. Then Anderson was bowled for 17 trying to late cut Bedi. O'Brien was next to go. At 19 he tried to drive Venkatraghavan without being at the pitch of the ball and was caught at mid-on. He had made 14 in 49 minutes. Chandrasekhar came on for Venkatraghavan and had Monteith caught at short square leg pushing out at him. This was 95 for 5 and time was pushing on. O'Riordan and Duffy took the score to 111. Then O'Riordan lashed out at Surti and was caught behind the bowler. Eight minutes later Duffy was caught at the wicket of Subramanya's leg break. 118-7. Hunter was joined by Goodwin and 18 were added in 17 minutes. Then Goodwin was bowled by a full toss. At 4:02 pm with 13 minutes to go to tea in came Colhoun. This seemed a poor move as he is only a defensive player whereas Torrens swings the bat. The remaining 13 minutes brought only 12 runs. In fact Hunter played out the last over before tea by Surti as a maiden. It seems that neither O'Riordan or the batsmen at the wicket knew whether there was to be a declaration or not. O'Riordan did in fact declare. Ireland's 148 had come in 187 minutes during which time no less than 73 overs were bowled, almost 24 an hour.

The Indians needed 156 in 115 minutes. In Torren's second over Pataudi played on for one. Kunderam and Surti then added 58 in 39 minutes. Surti hit O'Riordan for six and then Monteith came on for three overs. He conceded 30 runs and took a wicket in each over. At 63 Kunderam was stumped in his first over. His second over yielded 12 runs and Surti's wicket - bowled. 80-3-28. Now Wadeker came in with 76 needed in 52 minutes. At 97 Subramanya was stumped in Monteith's third over. 97-4-16. O'Riordan then came back and bowled to the end. 59 were needed in 42 minutes. But now the was no stopping Wadeker and Hanumant Singh. Duffy bowled three overs for 19 runs and saw Hanumant Singh dropped by Pigot at mid-on off a fierce drive. The score was then 114. Wadeker by superb strokes moved to 50 in 40 minutes and all was over with eight minutes to spare. Great stuff for the crowd. The likeable Indian team were entertained during their stay by the Hibernian Hotel, Messrs Arthur Guinness and the Indian Ambassador.