The Pakistan cricket team toured England in the 1962 season to play a five-match Test series against England. They also played a match in Ireland. The team is officially termed the Second Pakistanis as it was their second tour of England, following their inaugural tour in 1954. The Test series was the third between the two teams after those in England in 1954 and in Pakistan in 1961–62. Ted Dexter captained England in four Tests and Colin Cowdrey in one; Javed Burki captained Pakistan in all five Tests. England won the series 4–0 with one match drawn.
The Second Pakistanis played 36 matches in all, 29 of them rated first-class including the five Tests. They won only four of their first-class fixtures and lost eight, the other 17 matches being drawn. Their outstanding player on tour was Mushtaq Mohammad, who was selected as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year.
Background Pakistan were visiting England for the second time. Their first tour was in 1954 and it resulted in a 1–1 series draw, a highly creditable result for a team that was then new to Test cricket. In the meantime, Pakistan had largely held together the nucleus of the 1954 team but by 1962 it had become necessary to make several changes, with the result that the 1962 team was carrying too many inexperienced players.Wisden 1963, p. 300. Wisden commented upon the recent development in Pakistani cricket of replacing matting pitches with "very dead turf pitches". The nature of such pitches is that they allow for little movement of the ball off a straight line of delivery and so create easy batting conditions which, consequently, inhibit development of the skills necessary to perform well on all sorts of pitch. As a result, most of the Pakistani batsmen had difficulty in English conditions against pace and seam where there is considerable deviation of the ball as it moves through the air. The 1962 Pakistanis suffered accordingly against the English pace bowlers as is shown by the series statistics in that 96 Pakistani wickets fell during the five matches and 73 were taken by pace or seam bowlers, only 21 by spinners and there were two run outs. Fred Trueman, England's main exponent of the "outswinger" took 22 wickets in only four Tests.Wisden 1963, p. 303.
In England itself, the series against Pakistan was seemingly a secondary consideration. Playfair 1962 began its editorial with an apology to "the fine players of Pakistan" because everyone was supposedly looking ahead to the following winter's tour of Australia. The whole point of the editorial, indeed its title, was "Who will lead in Australia?"Playfair 1962, p. 5. A year later, England having failed to regain The Ashes, Wisden commented that "the season of 1962 was spoiled to a large extent by rain and main interest centred on finding a team to go to Australia".Wisden 1963, p. 137. Although the era of amateur status in first-class cricket was about to end, the three contenders for the leadership of England were all amateurs: Colin Cowdrey, Ted Dexter and David Sheppard. Dexter had just led England in its 1961–62 winter tour of the sub-continent and retained the captaincy for the tour of Australia.
The 1962 Test series followed the 1961–62 series in Pakistan that had ended on 7 February, 1962. England had moved on to Ceylon, playing three matches there till 18 February, and then home.Wisden 1963, pp. 897–898. In the 1961–62 Pakistan season, the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy ended on 3 January and was won by Karachi Blues, who beat Combined Services by 4 wickets.Wisden 1963, pp. 963–965. The Ayub Trophy ran from 16 March to 4 April when the final ended. It was won by Karachi, who beat North Zone by 316 runs.Wisden 1963, p. 965. 24 days later, on 28 April, Pakistan began their 1962 tour of England at Arundel Castle Cricket Ground against the Duke of Norfolk's XI.Wisden 1963, p. 306.
Pakistan squad Because of injuries, the Second Pakistanis used 21 players in their 29 first-class matches. The team was captained by Javed Burki with Hanif Mohammad as his vice-captain. The team manager was Brigadier R. G. ("Gussy") Haider with Major S. A. Rahman as his assistant.Wisden 1963, p. 302. Squad details below state the player's 1961–62 club team, his age at the beginning of the tour, his batting hand and his type of bowling:
+ Batsmen Name Club Birth date Batting style Bowling style Ref Alim-ud-Din Karachi Blues right-handed none Hanif Mohammad Karachi Whites right-handed right arm off break Playfair 1962, p. 21. Javed Burki Lahore right-handed right arm medium pace Mushtaq Mohammad Karachi Whites right-handed right arm leg break and googly Saeed Ahmed Pakistan International Airlines right-handed right arm off break Wallis Mathias Karachi right-handed right arm medium pace
+ Wicket-keepers Name Club Birth date Batting style Bowling style Ref Asif Ahmed Karachi right-handed none Ijaz Butt Rawalpindi right-handed none Playfair 1962, p. 22. Imtiaz Ahmed Combined Services right-handed right arm off break
+ All-rounders Name Club Birth date Batting style Bowling style Ref Nasim-ul-Ghani Karachi Whites left-handed left arm medium pace and slow left arm orthodox Shahid Mahmood Karachi Blues left-handed left arm medium pace Shuja-ud-Din Butt Bahawalpur right-handed slow left arm orthodox
+ Bowlers Name Club Birth date Batting style Bowling style Ref Afaq Hussain Karachi University right-handed right arm off break Playfair 1962, p. 20. Antao D'Souza Pakistan International Airlines right-handed right arm medium pace and off break Fazal Mahmood Lahore right-handed right arm fast medium Haseeb Ahsan Pakistan International Airlines right-handed right arm off break Intikhab Alam Karachi Whites right-handed right arm leg break and googly Javed Akhtar Rawalpindi right-handed right arm off break Mahmood Hussain Karachi Whites right-handed right arm fast medium Playfair 1962, p. 23. Mohammad Farooq Karachi right-handed right arm fast medium Munir Malik Rawalpindi right-handed right arm fast medium Playfair 1962, p. 24.
Pakistan used seventeen players in the Test series. The four who did not play in the series were Afaq Hussain, who made six tour appearances; Asif Ahmed, who made nine; Haseeb Ashan, who sustained a foot injury in the second match and went home soon afterwards; and Shuja-ud-Din Butt, who was only accompanying the tour party but was needed to play against Hampshire as an emergency stand-in. Five players took part in all five Tests: Hanif Mohammad, Javed Burki, Mushtaq Mohammad, Nasim-ul-Ghani and Saeed Ahmed.Wisden, pp. 303–304. The squad included two non-Muslim players, Mathias and D'Souza.
England Test selections England selected a total of 19 players in the five Tests. Only two players (Ted Dexter and Peter Parfitt) played in all five matches. Details of each England player includes the county club he represented in 1962, his age at the beginning of the season, his batting hand and his style of bowling:
+ Batsmen Name Club Birth date Batting style Bowling style Ref Ken Barrington Surrey right-handed right arm leg break and googly Playfair 1962, p. 147. Colin Cowdrey Kent right-handed none Playfair 1962, p. 148. Ted Dexter Sussex right-handed right arm medium pace Tom Graveney Worcestershire right-handed none Playfair 1962, p. 152. Peter Parfitt Middlesex left-handed right arm medium pace Geoff Pullar Lancashire left-handed none Playfair 1962, p. 159. David Sheppard Sussex right-handed slow left arm orthodox Micky Stewart Surrey right-handed none Playfair 1962, p. 161.
+ All-rounders Name Club Birth date Batting style Bowling style Ref Ray Illingworth Yorkshire right-handed right arm off break Playfair 1962, p. 154. Barry Knight Essex right-handed right arm fast medium Fred Titmus Surrey right-handed right arm off break Playfair 1962, p. 162.
+ Wicketkeepers Name Club Birth date Batting style Bowling style Ref Geoff Millman Nottinghamshire right-handed none Playfair 1962, p. 156. John Murray Middlesex right-handed none Playfair 1962, p. 157.
+ Bowlers Name Club Birth date Batting style Bowling style Ref David Allen Gloucestershire right-handed right arm off break Playfair 1962, p. 146. Len Coldwell Worcestershire right-handed right arm fast medium Playfair 1962, p. 149. David Larter Northamptonshire right-handed right arm fast Playfair 1962, p. 155. Tony Lock Surrey right-handed slow left arm orthodox Brian Statham Lancashire left-handed right arm fast Fred Trueman Yorkshire right-handed right arm fast
Tour itinerary The following is a list of the 36 matches played by the Second Pakistanis. 29 are rated as first-class fixtures.Wisden 1963, pp. 300–338. Test matches are listed in bold. The matches in italics were not first-class.