As a result, most of the Pakistani batsmen had difficulty in English conditions against pace and seam where there is considerable deviation of the ball as it moves through the air.
Playfair 1962 began its editorial with an apology to "the fine players of Pakistan" because everyone was supposedly looking ahead to the following winter's tour of Australia.
"[3] A year later, England having failed to regain The Ashes, Wisden commented that "the season of 1962 was spoiled to a large extent by rain and main interest centred on finding a team to go to Australia".
[5] In the 1961–62 Pakistan season, the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy ended on 3 January and was won by Karachi Blues, who beat Combined Services by 4 wickets.
[7] 24 days later, on 28 April, Pakistan began their 1962 tour of England at Arundel Castle Cricket Ground against the Duke of Norfolk's XI.
The four who did not play in the series were Afaq Hussain, who made six tour appearances; Asif Ahmed, who made nine; Haseeb Ashan, who sustained a foot injury in the second match and went home soon afterwards; and Shuja-ud-Din Butt, who was only accompanying the tour party but was needed to play against Hampshire as an emergency stand-in.
Details of each England player includes the county club he represented in 1962[notes 1], his age at the beginning of the season, his batting hand and his style of bowling: The following is a list of the 36 matches played by the Second Pakistanis.
The team consisted of six specialist batsmen, wicket-keeper Geoff Millman, two spinners and two pace bowlers, supplemented by Dexter as a third seamer.
Their other three bowlers were seamer Antao D'Souza, leg spinner Intikhab Alam and all-rounder Nasim-ul-Ghani who bowled a mixture of left arm seam and orthodox spin.
Wisden commented on the "tremendous amount of work" that fell on Mahmood and D'Souza, given that the two slower bowlers were "terribly expensive".
On the fourth day (Monday), Brian Statham took two quick wickets and Pakistan's fate was sealed despite resistance by Saeed Ahmed, who scored 65.
[41] England announced an unchanged team but, in the run-up to the match, the two Lancashire players Pullar and Statham were injured and had to withdraw.
Their replacements were opening batsman Micky Stewart and fast-medium bowler Len Coldwell, who both earned their first Test cap.
Pakistan brought Farooq into the team this time, replacing Intikhab, and preferred the veteran batsman Alim-ud-Din as opener to Butt.
On the second day (Friday), Graveney "batted beautifully", especially his cover driving, to score 153 despite receiving minimal help from his partners except Trueman, with whom he added 76 for the ninth wicket.
England also recalled John Murray, replacing Geoff Millman as the keeper, and preferred Fred Titmus to Tony Lock who was expensive during the Burki-Nasim stand at Lord's.
Pakistan, whose injury problems were beginning to mount up, made three changes because Imtiaz, Wallis Mathias and D'Souza could not play.
Their replacements were Butt, who had played at Edgbaston but not at Lord's, fast-medium bowler Munir Malik and off-spinner Javed Akhtar who had literally just arrived from Pakistan, having been called up as a reinforcement.
[49] Burki won the toss and asked England to bat first, the first time a Pakistan captain had ever taken that option in Test cricket.
England struggled on the first day, reduced to just over four hours by rain, and were 194 for six at the close with Parfitt and Murray the not out batsmen.
Geoff Pullar, fit again, was recalled and his opening partner was the third tour captaincy candidate David Sheppard, who had recently revived his cricket career at Sussex.
Tony Lock was brought back in place of Allen and all-rounder Barry Knight came in as an extra bowler, replacing the out-of-form Kenny Barrington.
Imtiaz was fit again, Intikhab was recalled and Shahid Mahmood was introduced, making his Test debut as opening batsman.
As the final day got under way, another collapse looked inevitable until Mushtaq and Saeed held England at bay with a stand of 107 for the fourth wicket.
With 65 minutes to go on Tuesday evening, Pakistan with five wickets left needed 22 runs more to avoid the innings defeat, Mushtaq and Shahid batting.
First, Mushtaq was missed by substitute fielder Cyril Poole at long leg and then Shahid, who had not scored, was dropped by Titmus at slip.
[66] Besides Barrington, Coldwell and Illingworth, England brought back Allen and Cowdrey and gave a first cap to pace bowler David Larter.
All through the summer, there had been speculation about which of Cowdrey, Dexter or Sheppard (amateurs all) would lead England in Australia to try and recover The Ashes.
[58] As well as their injury problems, the Pakistanis were frequently dogged by bad weather and most of their 17 drawn matches on the tour were because of rain, including the fourth Test as described above.
The Pakistanis were given a foretaste of the Test series to come in that Tom Graveney scored a century for the home team (and was presented with his county cap immediately afterwards) and their batsmen struggled against the pace and seam of Jack Flavell and Len Coldwell.