Indian national cricket team in Pakistan in the 2005-06 season

The tour of India's national cricket team to Pakistan in the 2005/06 season took place from January 13 to February 19, 2006. The international cricket tour was part of the 2005/06 international cricket season and included three tests and five ODIs . Pakistan won the test series 1–0, while India won the ODI series 4–1.

prehistory

Pakistan previously played a tour against England , India against Sri Lanka . The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in India in the 2004/05 season .

Stages

Faisalabad Hyderabad Karachi Lahore Multan Peshawar Rawalpindi

Tour venues

The following stages were designated as the venue for the tour and announced on December 6, 2005.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Iqbal Stadium	Faisalabad	18,000	2nd test
National Stadium	Karachi	34,228	3rd test; 5. ODI
Gaddafi Stadium	Lahore	60,000	1st test; 3. ODI
Multan Cricket Stadium	Multan	30,000	4. ODI
Arbab Niaz Stadium	Peshawar	20,000	1. ODI
Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium	Rawalpindi	25,000	2. ODI

Squad lists

India named its test roster on December 23, 2005 and its ODI roster on January 29, 2006. Pakistan named its test roster on January 2, 2006 and its ODI roster on February 2, 2006.

test		ODI
Pakistan	India	Pakistan	India
Inzamam-ul-Haq ( K ) Younis Khan ( UK ) Abdul Razzak Danish Kaneria Faisal Iqbal Imran Farhat Kamran Akmal ( wk ) Mohammad Asif Mohammad Sami Mohammad Yousuf Naved-ul-Hasan Salman Butt Shahid Afridi Shoaib Akhtar Shoaib Malik	Rahul Dravid ( K ) Ajit Agarkar Mahendra Singh Dhoni ( wk ) Sourav Ganguly Zaheer Khan Anil Kumble VVS Laxman Irfan Pathan Virender Sehwag Harbhajan Singh Rudra Singh Yuvraj Singh Sachin Tendulkar	Inzamam-ul-Haq ( K ) Abdul Razzak Arshad Khan Iftikhar Anjum Imran Farhat Kamran Akmal ( wk ) Mohammad Asif Mohammad Sami Mohammad Yousuf Naved-ul-Hasan Salman Butt Shahid Afridi Shoaib Malik Umar Gul Yasir Arafat Younis Khan	Rahul Dravid ( K ) Ajit Agarkar Mahendra Singh Dhoni ( wk ) Gautan Gambhir Muhammad Kaif Murali Kartik Zaheer Khan Irfan Pathan Ramesh Powar Suresh Raina Virender Sehwag Rudra Singh Yuvraj Singh Skanthakumaran Sreesanth Sachin Tendulkar

Tour matches

January 7th - 9th scorecard	Lahore	Indians 414-7d (104) & 72 (13)	-	Pakistan A 358-9d (95)
		draw

Testing

First test in Lahore

January 13-17 Scorecard	Lahore	Pakistan 679-7d (143.3)	-	India 410-1d (77.2)
		draw

Second test in Faisalabad

January 21-25 scorecard	Faisalabad	Pakistan 588 (136.2) & 490-8d (116.4)	-	India 603 (165.4) & 21-0 (8)
		draw

Third test in Karachi

January 29th - February 1st scorecard	Karachi	Pakistan 245 (60.1) & 599-7d (140.1)	-	India 238 (54.1) & 265 (58.4)
		Pakistan wins with 341 runs

One-day internationals

First ODI in Peshawar

February 6 scorecard	Peshawar	India 328 (49.4)	-	Pakistan 311-7 (47/47)
		Pakistan wins with 7 runs ( D / L method )

Second ODI in Rawalpindi

February 11th scorecard	Rawalpindi	Pakistan 265 (49.2)	-	India 266-3 (43.1)
		India wins with 7 wickets

Third ODI in Lahore

February 13 scorecard	Lahore	Pakistan 288-8 (50)	-	India 292-5 (47.4)
		India wins with 5 wickets

Fourth ODI in Multan

February 16 scorecard	Multan	Pakistan 161 (41.5)	-	India 162-5 (32.2)
		India wins with 5 wickets

Fifth ODI in Karachi

February 19th scorecard	Karachi	Pakistan 286-8 (50)	-	India 287-2 (46.5)
		India wins with 8 wickets

Web links

• Series on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ India's tour of Pakistan pushed back ( English ) Cricinfo. December 6, 2005. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
2. ↑ Ganguly makes the cut ( English ) Cricinfo. December 23, 2005. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
3. ↑ Ganguly left out of one-day squad ( English ) Cricinfo. January 29, 2006. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
4. ↑ Pakistan name uncapped Mohmand in squad ( English ) Cricinfo. January 2, 2006. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
5. ↑ Faisal Iqbal returns to ODI squad ( English ) Cricinfo. February 2, 2006. Retrieved October 29, 2016.