English national cricket team in India for the 2008-09 season

The tour of the English cricket team to India in the 2008-09 season took place on 9 November to 23 December of 2008. The international cricket tour was part of the 2008/09 international cricket season and included two test matches and five ODIs . The attacks on November 26, 2008 in Mumbai resulted in the cancellation of two more ODIs and the postponement of the tests. India won the test series 1-0 and the ODI series 5-0.

prehistory

classification

India previously played a tour against Australia , for England it was the first tour of the season. The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in the 2007 season in England .

Heading

Seven ODIs were originally planned. The fourth ODI was initially planned in Jamshedpur , but when there were doubts about the condition of the Keenan Stadium there, the responsible association gave back its hosting rights. Instead, Bangalore was earmarked for the event. The second test was originally planned in Mumbai , but was moved to Chennai on November 26th due to the attacks there . At the same time, the number of ODIs was reduced to five. The English team then traveled back to England in the meantime. During this time, the first test was moved from Ahmedabad , which is near Mumbai, to Mohali .

Stages

Bangalore Chennai Cutack Indore Kanpur Mohali Rajkot

Tour venues

The following stages were planned as venues for the tour and were announced on July 14, 2008.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
M. Chinnaswamy Stadium	Bangalore	42,000	4. ODI
MA Chidambaram Stadium	Chennai	46,000	1st test
Barabati Stadium	Cutack	45,000	5. ODI
Holkar Stadium	Indore	30,000	2. ODI
Green Park Stadium	Kanpur	33,000	3. ODI
Punjab Cricket Association Stadium	Mohali	35,000	2nd test
Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium	Rajkot	28,000	1. ODI

Squad lists

England named their ODI squad on September 9th and their test squad on September 29th. India named its ODI squad on November 5th and its test squad on December 4th.

test		ODI
India	England	India	England
MS Dhoni ( K & wk ) S Badrinath Rahul Dravid Gautam Gambhir Harbhajan Singh Zaheer Khan VVS Laxman Amit Mishra Pragyan Ojha Munaf Patel Virender Sehwag Ishant Sharma Sachin Tendulkar Murali Vijay Yuvraj Singh	Kevin Pietersen ( K ) Tim Ambrose ( wk ) James Anderson Ian Bell Stuart Broad Paul Collingwood Alastair Cook Andrew Flintoff Steve Harmison Amjad Khan Monty Panesar Matt Prior ( wk ) Owais Shah Andrew Strauss Graeme Swann	MS Dhoni ( K & wk ) Virender Sehwag ( vK ) Gautam Gambhir Harbhajan Singh Zaheer Khan Virat Kohli Pragyan Ojha Munaf Patel Irfan Pathan Yusuf Pathan Suresh Raina Ishant Sharma Rohit Sharma RP Singh Sachin Tendulkar Murali Vijay Yuvraj Singh	Kevin Pietersen ( K ) Tim Ambrose ( wk ) James Anderson Ian Bell Ravi Bopara Stuart Broad Paul Collingwood Alastair Cook Andrew Flintoff Steve Harmison Amjad Khan Sajid Mahmood Samit Patel Matt Prior ( wk ) Owais Shah Ryan Sidebottom Graeme Swann Luke Wright

Tour matches

November 9 scorecard	Mumbai	England XI 297-4 (50)	-	Mumbai 175-8 (50)
		England XI wins with 122 runs

November 11th scorecard	Mumbai	Mumbai Cricket Association XI 222-7 (50)	-	England XI 98 (25)
		MCA XI wins with 124 runs

One-day internationals

First ODI in Rajkot

November 14th scorecard	Rajkot	India 387-5 (50)	-	England 229 (37.4)
		India wins with 158 runs

Second ODI in Indore

November 17th scorecard	Indore	India 292-9 (50)	-	England 238 (47)
		India wins with 54 runs

Third ODI in Kanpur

November 20 scorecard	Kanpur	England 240 (48.4)	-	India 198-5 (40)
		India wins with 16 runs ( D / L method )

Fourth ODI in Bangalore

November 23 scorecard	Bangalore	India 166-4 (22/22)	-	England 178-8 (22/22)
		India wins with 19 runs ( D / L method )

Fifth ODI in Cuttack

November 26th scorecard	Cutack	England 270-4 (50)	-	India 273-4 (43.4)
		India wins with 6 wickets

Test matches

First test in Chennai

December 11-15 Scorecard	Chennai	England 316 (128.4) & 311-9d (105.5)	-	India 241 (69.4) & 387-4 (98.3)
		India wins with 6 wickets

Second test in Mohali

December 19-23 Scorecard	Mohali	India 453 (158.2)	-	England 302 (83.5)
		draw

statistics

The following cricket statistics were obtained on this tour.

Testing
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Gautam Gambhir	India	2	4th	361	90.25	179	1	2
Andrew Strauss	England	2	4th	252	84.00	123	2	0
Yuvraj Singh	India	2	4th	212	70.66	86	0	2
Sachin Tendulkar	India	2	4th	156	52.00	103 *	1	0
Kevin Pietersen	England	2	3	149	49.66	144	1	0
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Zaheer Khan	India	2	72	8th	21.00	3/40	0	0
Harbhajan Singh	India	2	99.5	8th	35.00	4/68	0	0
Graeme Swann	England	2	100.3	8th	39.50	3/122	0	0
Andrew Flintoff	England	2	84	7th	29.42	3/49	0	0
Ishant Sharma	India	2	59.3	6th	25.16	3/57	0	0
Amit Mishra	India	2	83	6th	42.66	3/99	0	0
Monty Panesar	England	2	79	6th	50.50	3/65	0	0

ODIs
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Yuvraj Singh	India	5	5	325	108.33	138 *	2	0
Virender Sehwag	India	5	5	314	62.80	91	0	4th
Owais Shah	England	5	5	236	59.00	72	0	3
Kevin Pietersen	England	5	5	225	56.25	111 *	1	1
Gautam Gambhir	India	4th	4th	175	43.75	70	0	2
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Zaheer Khan	India	5	40	8th	23.50	3/26	0	0
Harbhajan Singh	India	5	42	7th	30.28	3/31	0	0
Stuart Broad	England	5	43.4	7th	38.28	4/55	0	0
Munaf Patel	India	4th	23.4	5	21.80	2/22	0	0
Yuvraj Singh	India	5	33	5	30.20	4/28	0	0
Ishant Sharma	India	3	24	5	31.00	2/41	0	0

Player of the Series

The following players were honored as Player of the Series .

series	Player of the Series
test	Zaheer Khan
ODI	Yuvraj Singh

Player of the Match

The following players were recognized as Player of the Match .

game	Player of the Match
1. ODI	Yuvraj Singh
2. ODI	Yuvraj Singh
3. ODI	Harbhajan Singh
4. ODI	Virender Sehwag
5. ODI	Virender Sehwag
1st test	Virender Sehwag
2nd test	Gautam Gambhir

Web links

• The series on espncricinfo.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fourth England ODI shifted to Bangalore ( English ) Cricinfo. September 29, 2008. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
2. ↑ BCCI shifts Mumbai Test to Chennai ( English ) Cricinfo. November 28, 2008. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
3. ↑ England head home for tough decisions ( English ) Cricinfo. November 29, 2008. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
4. ^ Mohali emerges as alternative venue ( English ) Cricinfo. December 1, 2008. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
5. ↑ England 'disappointed' by India itinerary ( English ) Cricinfo. July 14, 2008. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
6. ↑ England name 15 for Stanford's millions ( English ) Cricinfo. September 9, 2008. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
7. ↑ Shah wins place in tour squad ( English ) Cricinfo. 2008-91-29. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
8. ↑ Tendulkar rested for first three ODIs ( English ) Cricinfo. November 5, 2008. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
9. ↑ Yuvraj and Ojha recalled ( English ) Cricinfo. December 4, 2008. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
10. ↑ Records / England in India Test Series, 2008/09 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved June 25, 2016.
11. ↑ Records / England in India Test Series, 2008/09 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved June 25, 2016.
12. ↑ Records / England in India ODI Series, 2008/09 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved June 25, 2016.
13. ↑ Records / England in India ODI Series, 2008/09 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved June 25, 2016.