The Pakistan national cricket team toured Australia in the 1972–73 season and played three Test matches against the Australian national cricket team. After an inadequate preparation against weak teams, Pakistan lost by an innings in the first Test in Adelaide. While Australia won the series 3–0, the last two tests were competitive, with Pakistan seeming the likely winner on the second last days. The 2nd test in Melbourne was attended by 115,721. Pakistan also visited Sri Lanka and played a match against the Sri Lankan national cricket team and followed the tour with a series against New Zealand, where both teams played their first ODI.
Touring team
Intikhab Alam (captain) Asif Iqbal Asif Masood Majid Khan Majid Usman Masood Iqbal Mohammad Ilyas Mushtaq Mohammad Nasim-ul-Ghani Pervez Sajjad Sadiq Mohammad Saeed Ahmed Saleem Altaf Sarfraz Nawaz Talat Ali Wasim Bari Zaheer Abbas
Test series summary
First Test
Second Test
Third Test
Sri Lanka The Pakistan team had a stopover in Colombo en route to Australia and played a first-class match there between 9 and 11 November against the Sri Lankan national cricket team, which at that time did not have Test status. The match was drawn. Sri Lanka were captained by Michael Tissera and Pakistan by Intikhab Alam.
See also Pakistani cricket team in New Zealand in 1972–73
References
Annual reviews Playfair Cricket Annual 1973 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1974
Further reading Bill Frindall, The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877-1978, Wisden, 1979 Chris Harte, A History of Australian Cricket, André Deutsch, 1993
External links Pakistan tour of Australia 1972-73 on ESPN Cricinfo CricketArchive – tour summaries