England Win Both Home Series in 1967 — India and Pakistan Both Beaten

India had never won a Test series in England; Pakistan had not won in England since their 1954 debut. Neither side was fully equipped for the moving-ball conditions of an English summer.

The 1967 summer brought India and Pakistan to England in consecutive series, and England won both emphatically. Against India the margin was 3-0: Boycott scored over 400 runs in the series, and India's batting — experienced on hard Indian pitches — found English seam bowling consistently difficult. The Pakistan series was 2-0: Pakistan were competitive at Lord's but beaten at Trent Bridge and The Oval. Close's captaincy was characteristically direct — he positioned himself close to bat at short leg, encouraged aggressive bowling and maintained attacking fields long after convention would have called for defensive deployment. England's pace attack in 1967 included Trueman's final international summer (he retired after the series), Snow's growing hostility and Higgs's accuracy. The double series victory was England's most impressive home summer since the mid-1950s.