Pakistani national cricket team in India in the 2004/05 season

The tour of the Pakistani national cricket team to India in the 2004/05 season took place in two parts on November 13, 2004 and from March 8 to April 17, 2005. The international cricket tour was part of the 2004/05 international cricket season and initially included an ODI and again three tests and six ODIs. Pakistan won the sole ODI and the ODI series 4–2, while the test series 1–1 ended in a draw.

prehistory

Before the first ODI, India played a tour against Australia and Pakistan played a tour against Sri Lanka . Before the second part of the tour, India played a tour against Bangladesh and Pakistan played a three-nation tournament in Australia . The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in Pakistan in the 2003/04 season .

The second test was originally supposed to take place in Ahmedabad, which Pakistan tried to prevent due to the security situation. After threatening a boycott, India changed the schedule and instead awarded an ODI to Ahmedabad.

Stages

Ahmedabad Bangalore Delhi Jamshedpur Kanpur Kolkata Kochi Mohali Visakhapatnam

Tour venues

The following stages were designated as the venue for the tour and announced on July 15, 2005.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Sardar Patel Stadium	Ahmedabad	54,000	4. ODI (F)
M. Chinnaswamy Stadium	Bangalore	42,000	3rd test
Feroz Shah Kotla	Delhi	48,000	6. ODI (F)
Keenan Stadium	Jamshedpur	19,000	3. ODI (F)
Green Park Stadium	Kanpur	33,000	5. ODI (F)
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium	Kochi	75,000	1. ODI (F)
Eden Gardens	Kolkata	82,000	2. test; 1. ODI (H)
Punjab Cricket Association Stadium	Mohali	35,000	1st test
ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium	Visakhapatnam	30,000	2. ODI (F)

Squad lists

India named its test squad on February 26th and its ODI squad on March 28th, 2005.

test		ODI (F)		ODI (H)
India	Pakistan	India	Pakistan	India	Pakistan
Sourav Ganguly ( K ) Lakshmipathy Balaji Rahul Dravid Gautam Gambhir Harbhanjan Singh Dinesh Karthik ( wk ) Murali Kartik Zaheer Khan Anil Kumble VVS Laxman Irfan Pathan Virender Sehwag Sachin Tendulkar	Inzamam-ul-Haq ( K ) Abdul Razzaq Arshad Khan Asim Kamal Danish Kaneria Kamran Akmal ( wk ) Mohammad Khalil Mohammad Sami Mohammad Yousuf Naved-ul-Hasan Salman Butt Shahid Afridi Taufeeq Umar Yasri Hameed Younis Khan	Sourav Ganguly ( K ) Ajit Agarkar Lakshmipathy Balaji MS Dhoni ( wk ) Rahul Dravid Harbhanjan Singh Mohammad Kaif Murali Kartik Zaheer Khan Anil Kumble Dinesh Mongia Ashish Nehra Irfan Pathan Virender Sehwag Sachin Tendulkar Yuvraj Singh	Inzamam-ul-Haq ( K ) Abdul Razzaq Arshad Khan Danish Kaneria Iftikhar Anjum Kamran Akmal ( wk ) Mohammad Hafeez Mohammad Sami Mohammad Yousuf Naved-ul-Hasan Salman Butt Shahid Afridi Younis Malik Younis Khan	Sourav Ganguly ( K ) Rahul Dravid ( wk ) Harbhanjan Singh Ashish Nehra Zaheer Khan Mohammad Kaif Irfan Pathan VVS Laxman Virender Sehwag Sachin Tendulkar Yuvraj Singh	Inzamam-ul-Haq ( K ) Abdul Razzaq Kamran Akmal ( wk ) Mohammad Sami Naved-ul-Hasan Salman Butt Shahid Afridi Shoaib Akhtar Younis Malik Younis Khan Yousuf Youhana

Tour matches

March 3-5 scorecard	Mohali	Pakistanis 273 (67.4)	-	Indian Board President's XI 120-1 (34)
		draw

March 30th scorecard	Hyderabad	India A 189-7 (45)	-	Pakistanis 190-2 (41)
		Pakistanis wins with 8 wickets

BCCI Plantinum Jubilee Match (ODI) in Calcutta

The game was played to celebrate the 70th birthday of the Indian Association.

November 13th scorecard	Calcutta	India 292-6 (50)	-	Pakistan 293-4 (49)
		Pakistan wins with 6 wickets

Tests in spring

First test in Mohali

March 8-12 scorecard	Mohali	Pakistan 312 (86.4) & 496-9d (144)	-	India 516 (147.4) & 85-1 (17)
		draw

Second test in Calcutta

March 16-20 Scorecard	Calcutta	India 407 (111.1) & 407-9d (104)	-	Pakistan 393 (113.1) & 226 (91.3)
		India wins with 195 runs

Third test in Bangalore

March 24-28 Scorecard	Bangalore	Pakistan 570 (167.5) & 261-2d (50)	-	India 449 (128.4) & 214 (90)
		Pakistan wins with 168 runs

Pakistani Inzamam-ul-Haq was banned from a game because he was dissatisfied with a referee's decision.

One-Day Internationals in spring

First ODI in Kochi

April 2nd scorecard	Kochi	India 281-8 (50)	-	Pakistan 194 (45.2)
		India wins with 87 runs

Second ODI in Visakhapatnam

April 5th scorecard	Visakhapatnam	India 356-9 (50)	-	Pakistan 298 (44.1)
		India wins with 58 runs

Pakistani Inzamam-ul-Haq was officially warned when he was too annoyed about his departure.

Third ODI in Jamshedpur

April 9th scorecard	Jamshedpur	Pakistan 319-9 (50)	-	India 213 (41.4)
		Pakistan wins with 106 runs

The Indian captain Sourav Ganguly was fined for playing too slowly, as was the entire Indian team.

Fourth ODI in Ahmedabad

April 12th scorecard	Ahmedabad	India 315-6 (48/48)	-	Pakistan 319-7 (48/48)
		Pakistan wins with 3 wickets

The Indian captain Sourav Ganguly was suspended for six games after the team played too slowly for the second time in a row.

Fifth ODI in Kanpur

April 15 scorecard	Kanpur	India 249-6 (50)	-	Pakistan 252-5 (42.1)
		Pakistan wins with 5 wickets

Sixth ODI in Delhi

April 17th scorecard	Delhi	Pakistan 303-8 (50)	-	India 144 (37)
		Pakistan wins with 159 runs

The organizers of the ODI announced two weeks before the event that they would not be able to guarantee security. The Indian government then intervened and declared that there were no problems and that the game could take place. A visit by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf as part of cricket diplomacy was seen as an important signal in the peace process between the two countries.

statistics

The following cricket statistics were obtained on this tour.

Testing
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Virender Sehwag	India	3	6th	544	90.66	201	2	1
Younis Khan	Pakistan	3	6th	508	101.60	267	2	1
Inzamam-ul-Haq	Pakistan	3	6th	401	80.20	184	1	2
Rahul Dravid	India	3	5	333	66.60	135	2	1
Sachin Tendulkar	India	3	5	255	51.00	94	0	3
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Danish Kaneria	Pakistan	3	192.4	19th	31.52	6/150	2	0
Anil Kumble	India	3	218.1	17th	37.88	7/63	1	1
Lakshmipathy Balaji	India	3	119.4	14th	32.28	5/76	1	0
Harbhajan Singh	India	2	118.2	10	33.20	6/152	1	0
Mohammad Sami	Pakistan	3	143	10	49.30	3/82	0	0

ODIs
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Rahul Dravid	India	6th	6th	308	51.33	104	1	2
Shoaib Malik	Pakistan	6th	6th	269	44.83	75	0	3
MS Dhoni	India	6th	6th	261	43.50	148	1	0
Virender Sehwag	India	6th	6th	239	39.83	108	1	1
Salman Butt	Pakistan	6th	6th	235	39.16	101	1	0
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Naved-ul-Hasan	Pakistan	6th	50.4	15th	16.40	6/27	1	0
Ashish Nehra	India	5	45	11	27.09	4/72	0	0
Arshad Khan	Pakistan	4th	30th	9	16.55	4/33	0	0
Sachin Tendulkar	India	6th	35	7th	28.42	5/50	1	0
Zaheer Khan	India	6th	50.3	6th	45.50	2/25	0	0

Player of the Series

The following players were honored as Player of the Series .

series	Player of the Series
test	Virender Sehwag
ODI	Naved-ul-Hasan

Player of the Match

The following players were recognized as Player of the Match .

game	Player of the Match
1st test	Kamran Akmal
2nd test	Rahul Dravid
3rd test	Younis Khan
1. ODI	Virender Sehwag
2. ODI	MS Dhoni
3. ODI	Naved-ul-Hasan
4. ODI	Inzamam-ul-Haq
5. ODI	Shahid Afridi
6. ODI	Shoaib Malik

Web links

• BCCI Plantinum Jubilee Match on Cricinfo
• The series on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mohali, Ahmedabad and Bangalore to host Pakistan Tests ( English ) Cricinfo. January 20, 2005. Retrieved December 25, 2016.
2. ↑ Pakistan don't want to play in Ahmedabad ( English ) Cricinfo. February 6, 2005. Retrieved December 25, 2016.
3. ↑ Pakistan's tour hangs in the balance ( English ) Cricinfo. February 17, 2005. Retrieved December 24, 2016.
4. ↑ BCCI requests Pakistan to play ODI in Ahmedabad ( English ) Cricinfo. February 9, 2005. Retrieved December 24, 2016.
5. ↑ Pakistan tour itinerary finalized ( English ) Cricinfo. February 20, 2005. Retrieved December 25, 2016.
6. ↑ Yuvraj preferred to Kaif for Test squad ( English ) Cricinfo. February 26, 2005. Retrieved December 25, 2016.
7. ↑ Kumble and Laxman omitted from one-day squad ( English ) Cricinfo. March 28, 2005. Retrieved December 25, 2016.
8. ↑ Inzamam banned for one test ( English ) Cricinfo. March 28, 2005. Retrieved December 25, 2016.
9. ↑ Inzamam reprimanded for equipment abuse ( English ) Cricinfo. April 7, 2005. Retrieved December 25, 2016.
10. ↑ Ganguly fined for over-rate ( English ) Cricinfo. April 10, 2006. Retrieved December 25, 2016.
11. ↑ India to appeal Ganguly ban ( English ) Cricinfo. April 12, 2005. Retrieved December 25, 2016.
12. ↑ Delhi likely to lose final ODI ( English ) Cricinfo. March 31, 2005. Retrieved December 25, 2016.
13. ↑ Indian government says Delhi ODI should go on ( English ) Cricinfo. April 1, 2005. Retrieved December 25, 2016.
14. ↑ Musharraf visits India amid cricket diplomacy ( English ) China Daily. April 17, 2005. Retrieved December 25, 2016.
15. ↑ United Nations praise for India and Pakistan ( English ) Cricinfo. May 20, 2005. Retrieved December 25, 2016.
16. ↑ Records / Pakistan in India Test Series, 2004/05 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved January 16, 2017.
17. ↑ Records / Pakistan in India Test Series, 2004/05 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved January 16, 2017.
18. ↑ Records / Pakistan in India ODI Series, 2004/05 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved January 16, 2017.
19. ↑ Records / Pakistan in India ODI Series, 2004/05 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved January 16, 2017.