[2][3] He only played in three of the tour matches, scoring 78 runs in an innings against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) at Lord's.

[4] In the Wisden report on the tour the almanack wrote that "a better result might have been obtained if Mistry – unquestionably a high-class batsman – had been able to play right through the summer.

Following the maharaja's death, the British government in India acted quickly and took charge of the succession of the nine-year-old Bhupinder Singh.

Major James Dunlop Smith was appointed to manage the affairs of the young maharaja and removed all of the previous maharajah's appointees except Mistry, who had been the guardian of Bhupinder Singh.

[1] Mistry continued playing into his fifties, including captaining the second all-India team against the visiting MCC side led by Arthur Gilligan in 1926.