india's first ever test victory came against england at madras in 1952. india's first series victory was against pakistan later the same year. in 1954, india drew a 5-test series with pakistan 0-0, the batting strength from india had come from polly umrigar and vijay manjrekar while the prime bowler was subhash gupte with 21 wickets in the series. india's first series against new zealand in 1956 created a comprehensive series victory for india, winning the 5-test series 2-0. mh mankad was excellent in his batting, averaging 105.2 in the series while scoring 526 runs. once again, s.m. gupte held india's bowling together, with 34 wickets. the remainder of the 1950s did not show as good results as the start: india lost a 3-test series to australia (2-0), lost a 5-test series against the west indies (3-0),