As England had no Test tour during the 1937–38 season, Tennyson was able to select a strong team.
Alexander Hosie (47, formerly of Hampshire), who was living in India, played in one of the first-class matches.
For much of the tour, injuries and illnesses prevented the team from fielding its best eleven.
[1][2] As well as the cricket and the constant travelling across India by train and around the coast by ship, the team were also treated to numerous banquets and were taken sight-seeing and game-shooting.
[3] The manager, C. H. M. Barday, thought it was the most popular team to have toured India so far, and singled out Tennyson, the diplomat par excellence: "No matter how tired or busy he was, the English captain never refused to sign an autograph, an example which all members of the side emulated, thereby adding greatly to their popularity.