Tour of Australia 1999-00        Captain: Sachin Tendulkar
	India's 42nd Test Tour   Seventh Test-playing tour of Australia by India        (November 1999 -          February 2000)	the selectors did not consider  former Indian captain Mohammad Azharuddin anymore and he was excluded from the Indian team for Australia. When the selectors said they would would consider him for the one-day series, the on-tour selectors did not want him. BCCI secretary Jaywant Lele was quoted by website Rediff but denied saying that the Indian team would be blanked 0-3 by Australia in the Tests.  However, the series turned out to be a  0-3 whitewash, Although V V S Laxman’s magnificent strokeplay scoring 167 at the end of the series impressed, the Indian batting always struggled apart from Sachin Tendulkar who was chosen as Man of the Series. He scored runs despite being the victim of several close umpiring decisions. The Indians also suffered when Tendulkar requested sawdust to be put on the slippery spots behind the wickets which the umpires refused, and Prasad was fined for exuberant wicket celebration of a wicket while McGrath and Ponting’s outbursts were overlooked.	Other Indian tours   Previous tour Asian Test Championship in Sri Lanka 1999   Next tour Bangladesh 2000-01   Next tour of Australia 2003-04
	Members of the Test tour  party (16)       Opening batsmen: Devang Gandhi, Sadagoppan Ramesh, V V S Laxman Middle-order batsmen: Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly, Vijay Bharadwaj, Hrishikesh Kanitkar. Wicket-keepers: Mannava Prasad, Nayan Mongia (r) Spinners: Harbhajan Singh, Anil Kumble. Fast bowlers: Venkatesh Prasad, Javagal Srinath, Ajit Agarkar, Thirunavukkarasu (‘Kenny’) Kumaran, Debasis Mohanty	A B Agarkar Mb 22 RHB    RFM     R V Bharadwaj K 24 RHB     R S Dravid K 26 RHB    reserve WK     D J Gandhi Bn 28 RHB  opener     S C Ganguly Bn 27 LHB   (RM)   vice-captain     Harbhajan Singh Pj 19 OB     H H Kanitkar Mh 25 LHB     T Kumaran TN 24 RMF     A Kumble K 29 LBG     V V S Laxman Hd 25 RHB     D S Mohanty Os 23 RM     B K V Prasad K 30 RMF     M S K Prasad AP 24 WK     S Ramesh TN 24 LHB  opener     J Srinath K 30 RFM     S R Tendulkar Mb 26 RHB   captain       Joined the tour party for the N Chopra  ODI   one-day internationals S S Dighe ODI       S B Joshi ODI       J J Martin ODI       R R Singh (born Sep 1963)  ODI	Representation of teams:        AP  -  Andhra Pradesh (1) Bn  -  Bengal (2) Hd - Hyderabad (1) K -   Karnataka (5) Mh - Maharashtra (1) Mb  -  Mumbai (2) Os  -  Orissa (1) Pj -  Punjab (1) TN - Tamil Nadu (2)           Average age of  team at time of first Test match (10 December 1999) : 27 yrs  9 months   ODI  Member of one-day squad for the Carlton & United series.
	Test Appearances made before the tour	Tendulkar 71,  Kumble 56,  Srinath 41,  Dravid 32,  Ganguly 30,  V Prasad 26,  Laxman 14,  Harbhajan Singh 8,  Ramesh 7,  Gandhi 3,  M Prasad 3,  Vijay Bharadwaj 2,  Mohanty 2,  Agarkar 1,  Kanitkar 0,  Kumaran 0.
	Team Officials	Dr Mahendra K Bhargawa Manager Kapil Dev Coach Andrew Leipus Physiotherapist   Announced on 18 November that Dr Bhargawa of the Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association was appointed manager.
	Selectors	C G Borde (West Zone - Chairman), T A Sekhar (South),  Anil Deshpande (Central),  Ashok Malhotra (East) and Madan Lal (North).
	Selection	Tour Party  chosen :  31 October 1999.  Not selected  :   Mohammad Azharuddin, Jacob Martin, Nayan Mongia, Sunil Joshi. Withdrawal :  A D Jadeja’s shoulder injury was assessed in Mumbai and needed an operation which would take at least four weeks to heal. He withdrew on 22 November, to be replaced by H H Kanitkar (Maharashtra) who was at the time leading the India 'A' team in the West Indies.   One-day squad announced :  30 December 1999. Jadeja (shoulder operation) and Ramesh (broken thumb) were not available.Reuben Paul (Tamil Nadu wicket-keeper), Mohammad Kaif, Virender Sehwag and Reetinder Singh Sodhi (Punjab all-rounder) were also considered. Laxman and Vijay Bharadwaj were expected to return to India but were retained in the one-day squad   The selectors are to meet in Baroda on January 19, if needed, to re-assess the performance of the Indian team and send re-enforcements if the show is not satisfactory by that stage. India would have played three league matches by then.	Time between selection and departure from India   23 days  (31 October - 22 November)
	Travel	The team assembled in Mumbai on 22 November 1999 and flew out the following day.  Kanitkar did not fly with the team. not clear whether Kanitkar flew directly from the West Indies to Australia or returned to Bombay and then flew out the next day. The Indians arrived in Brisbaneby a Malaysian Airlines flight on 24 November after a six-hour stopover in Kuala Lumpur Prasad hurt his knee when he bumped it on a suitcase at Kuala Lumpur airport en route to Australia. The knee later swelled, necessitating Mongia’s dash from India:  Mongia arrived in Adelaide on 8 December.	Time spent in Australia    68 days (24 November - 31 January)
	On-tour selection committee	Kapil Dev  (coach),  Sachin Tendulkar  (captain),  Sourav Ganguly (vice-captain).   Kapil Dev opted to have a knee operation during the middle of the tour, putting him out of action.
	Reinforcements	Nayan R Mongia Ba 26 WK   The team amangement requested that Mongia reinforce the team when the only wicket-keeper Prasad’s knee swelled up (after jolting it at the airport)but after the match against Tasmania on 23 December the BCCI called for Mongia to be sent back after the physio Andrew Leipus passed Prasad fully fit.  Mongia returned home. Sadagoppan Ramesh broke his left thumb and was unable to play in the third Test or afterwards.    For the one-day matches - Nikhil Chopra, S S Dighe, Sunil Joshi, Jacob Martin, Robin Singh came in. Laxman was due to return home but was retained for the one-day tournament.
	Fixtures/Results	Brisbane Queensland Lost 10 w Sydney New South Wales Won 93 r ϯ Canberra Prime Minister's XI (50 overs) Lost 164 r ADELAIDE  AUSTRALIA  First Test LOST 285 r Hobart Tasmania Drawn MELBOURNE  AUSTRALIA Second Test LOST 180 r SYDNEY  AUSTRALIA  Third Test LOST inns 141 r § Brisbane Pakistan (1st ODI) Lost 2 w § Melbourne Australia (2nd ODI) Lost 28 r § Sydney Australia (3rd ODI) Lost 5 w § Hobart Pakistan (4th ODI) Lost 32 r § Adelaide Pakistan   (5th ODI) Won 48 r § Adelaide Australia  (6th ODI) Lost 152 r § Perth Pakistan   (7th ODI) Lost 104 r § Perth Australia (8th ODI) Lost 4 w	† not first-class § one-day international     Time spent in Australia before First Test:  16 days (24 November - 10 December) .
	Test appearances on tour	3 -   Agarkar,  Dravid,  Ganguly,  Kumble,  Laxman,  M.Prasad,  V.Prasad,  Srinath,  Tendulkar 2 -   Kanitkar,  Ramesh. 1 -   Bharadwaj,  Gandhi. 0 -   Harbhajan,  Kumaran,  Mohanty.
	Highlights	•    Tendulkar lived up to his reputation by compiling 278 runs, including 116 in Melbourne and two fifties. •    On the other hand Dravid’s mere 93 runs in the series were scored at an average of 10 runs per hour. •    Ajit Agarkar acquired an unwanted world record of five successive Test ducks, four of them consecutive first ball ones. •    However, with 11 wickets at an average 31.90, Agarkar was the most successful Indian bowler in the Tests. •    Laxman scored a defiant 167 in the third Test at Sydney as India slumped to their third consecutive heavy defeat.
	Tour Summary	P W  L D Aban Test Matches   3 0   3 0 - Other first-class matches   3 1   1 1 - † Minor matches   1 0   1 0 - §One-day internationals   8 1   7 0 - All Matches 15 2 12 1 -
	Return to India	4 Jan 2000 Harbhajan Singh, T.Kumaran, M S K Prasad, Vijay Bharadwaj? and S Ramesh (injured) returned after the Test series.   The Indian team left for home from Perth on Monday afternoon 31 January, and received an unexpectedly warm welcome when they arrived at Chennai on Tuesday 1 Feb 2000.	Time away from India   70 days   (23 November to 1 February)

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