[1] The team was nominally captained by Les Ames but he had injury problems and often had to hand over to his deputy Frank Worrell.
There were numerous problems with health and injury issues which caused early withdrawals but it included Jim Laker, Sonny Ramadhin, Derek Shackleton, Jack Ikin, Harold Gimblett, Fred Ridgway, Dick Spooner, George Tribe, Les Jackson, Bruce Dooland, George Emmett, Laurie Fishlock, Harold Stephenson, Ken Grieves, Ray Dovey and Billy Sutcliffe.
They won the second match against India at Bombay's Brabourne Stadium by ten wickets.
The other three matches against India were drawn as was the international in Colombo against Ceylon.
Worrell played a magnificent innings of 285 but Ceylon managed to hold on for a draw with their last pair together when time ran out.