The India cricket team toured England in the 1936 season and played 28 first-class fixtures, winning only four whilst losing 12 and drawing 12.

But the team did include several top-class players such as Vijay Merchant, Mushtaq Ali and C. K. Nayudu.

The India squad for the tour was suggested by the Selection Committee consisting of the Nawab of Bhopal Hamidullah Khan, the Nawab of Pataudi and Maharajkumar of Vizianagram to the Board of Cricket Control on 16 February 1936.

The Yuvraj of Patiala Yadavindra Singh declined to be a part owing to personal reasons.

Ultimately, after a long saga of closed ranks and establishment incompetence, he was completely exonerated.