English national cricket team in India in the 2005/06 season

The tour of the England cricket team to India in the 2005/06 season took place from March 1 to April 15, 2006. The international cricket tour was part of the 2005/06 international cricket season and included three tests and seven ODIs . India won the ODI series 5–1, while the test series 1–1 ended in a draw.

prehistory

India previously played a tour in Pakistan , as did England . Both teams lost their test series, while India won at least the ODI series. The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in the 2004 season in England .

Stages

Delhi Faridabad Guwahati Indore Jamshedpur Kochi Margao Mumbai (WS) Mohali Nagpur

Tour venues

The following stages were designated as the venue for the tour and announced on December 8, 2005.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Feroz Shah Kotla	Delhi	48,000	1. ODI
Nahar Singh Stadium	Faridabad	25,000	2. ODI
Nehru Stadium	Guwahati	15,000	5. ODI
Holkar Stadium	Indore	30,000	7. ODI
Keenan Stadium	Jamshedpur	19,000	6. ODI
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium	Kochi	75,000	4. ODI
Jawarharlal Nehru Stadium	Margao	19,000	3. ODI
Wankhede Stadium	Mumbai	33,000	3rd test
Punjab Cricket Association Stadium	Mohali	35,000	2nd test
Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium	Nagpur	45,000	1st test

Squad lists

England named their squad on January 13, 2006. India named their test squad on February 23 and their ODI squad on March 21, 2006.

test		ODI
India	England	India	England
Rahul Dravid ( K ) Plyush Chawla Mahendra Singh Dhoni ( wk ) Wasim Jaffer Muhammad Kaif Anil Kumble VVS Laxman Munaf Patel Irfan Pathan Virender Sehwag Harbhajan Singh Yuvraj Singh Skanthakumaran Sreesanth Sachin Tendulkar	Andrew Flintoff ( K ) James Anderson Ian Bell Ian Blackwell Paul Collingwood Alastair Cook Stephen Harmison Matthew Hoggard Geraint Jones ( wk ) Monty Panesar Kevin Pietersen Liam Plunkett Owais Shah Andrew Strauss Shaun Udal	Rahul Dravid ( K ) Virender Sehwag ( UK ) Ajit Agarkar Mahendra Singh Dhoni ( wk ) Gautan Gambhir Muhammad Kaif Dinesh Karthik Munaf Patel Irfan Pathan Ramesh Powar Suresh Raina Rudra Singh Harbhajan Singh Vikram Singh Yuvraj Singh Skanthakumaran Sreesanth Robin Uthappa Yalaka Venugopal Rao	Andrew Flintoff ( K ) Andrew Strauss ( UK ) Kabir Ali James Anderson Gareth Batty Ian Bell Ian Blackwell Paul Collingwood Matthew Hoggard Geraint Jones ( wk ) Sajid Mahmood Kevin Pietersen Liam Plunkett Matt Prior ( wk ) Owais Shah Vikram Solanki

Tour matches

February 18-20 scorecard	Mumbai (BS)	England XI 299 (89.3) & 265 (61.5)	-	Cricket Club of India President's XI 251-10d (79.3) & 75 (26.2)
		England XI wins with 238 runs

February 23-25 scorecard	Vadodara	England XI 238 (62.2) & 158 (65)	-	Indian Board President's XI 342-8d (103.4) & 58-2 (17)
		Indian Board President's XI wins with 8 wickets

June 1st scorecard	Jaipur	Rajasthan Cricket Association President's XI 260-6 (50)	-	England XI 255 (49.5)
		Rajasthan Cricket Association President's XI wins by 5 runs

Testing

First test in Nagpur

March 1-5 Scorecard	Nagpur	England 393 (127.5) & 297-3d (87)	-	India 323 (136.5) & 260-6 (78.2)
		draw

Second test in Mohali

March 9-13 Scorecard	Mohali	India 300 (103.4) & 181 (76.1)	-	England 338 (96.2) & 144-1 (33)
		India wins with 9 wickets

Third test in Mumbai

March 18-22 Scorecard	Mumbai	England 400 (133.4) & 191 (92.4)	-	India 279 (104.1) & 100 (48.2)
		England wins with 212 runs

One-day internationals

First ODI in Delhi

March 28 scorecard	Delhi	India 203 (46.4)	-	England 164 (38.1)
		India wins with 39 runs

Second ODI in Faridabad

March 31 scorecard	Faridabad	England 226 (49.5)	-	India 230-6 (49)
		India wins with 4 wickets

Third ODI in Margao

April 3 scorecard	Margao	India 294-6 (50)	-	England 245 (48.5)
		India wins with 49 runs

Fourth ODI in Kochi

April 6th scorecard	Kochi	England 237 (48.4)	-	India 238-6 (47.2)
		India wins with 4 wickets

Fifth ODI in Guwahati

April 9th scorecard	Guwahati	India	-	England
		Game canceled

After the umpires had canceled the game due to the outside field being too wet, riots broke out in the stands, which the police countered with tear gas.

Sixth ODI in Jamshedpur

April 12th scorecard	Jamshedpur	India 223 (48)	-	England 227-5 (42.4)
		England wins with 5 wickets

Seventh ODI in Indore

April 15 scorecard	Indore	England 288 (50)	-	India 289-3 (49.1)
		India wins with 7 wickets

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ECB confirm India itinerary ( English ) Cricinfo. December 8, 2005. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
2. ↑ Anderson loses Test place as Jones returns ( English ) Cricinfo. January 13, 2006. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
3. ↑ Ganguly dropped for Nagpur Test ( English ) Cricinfo. February 23, 2006. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
4. ↑ Tendulkar ruled out of one-day series ( English ) Cricinfo. March 21, 2007. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
5. ↑ Indian board asked to explain crowd trouble in Guwahati ( English ) Cricinfo. April 26, 2006. Retrieved October 29, 2016.