Five Greats who began and ended their Test career against India

#4 Bill Bowes (England)

The bowler amassed 1639 wickets in first-class cricket

The English fast-medium pace bowler Bill Bowes boasted an interesting cricket career and an even extraordinary life.

The bowler amassed 1639 wickets in first-class cricket. In between, he was captured as a prisoner of war in 1942 and was kept in the Italian and German war camps until the World War II ended in 1945.

Bowes’ Test debut took place in an extraordinary match.

His debut Test was the debut Test of India as a nation. Bowes picked up six wickets in the 158-run victory of England in India’s inaugural Test match at the Lord’s in 1932.

When India returned for a tour in 1946, Bowes was not the same bowler with age and War years taking out the best in him.

He played in the first Test of the tour at Lord’s which was against India which began on the same day as that of the inaugural Test (25th June). Bowes could take only one wicket in the last Test.