Test Cricket Tour India to Zimbabwe 2000-01

Test Cricket Tours - India to Zimbabwe 2000-01

Tour of Zimbabwe 2000-01 Captain: Sourav Ganguly

India's 44th Test tour

(May - June 2000)

Third Test-playing tour of Zimbabwe by India

(previous tour 1998-99)

After winning the first Test the Indians looked likely to break a 15-year jinx of not winning a Test series outside the subcontinent, but faltered in the second Test. Zimbabwe won a thrilling victory at Harare.

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Members of the Test tour party (15)

Opening batsmen: Shiv Sundur Das and Sadagoppan Ramesh

Middle-order batsmen: Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Hemang Badani, Sourav Ganguly, V V S Laxman

Wicket-keepers: Sameer Dighe

Spinners: Sairav Bahutule, Harbhajan Singh

Fast bowlers:Ajit Agarkar, Javagal Srinath, Debasis Mohanty, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra.

A B Agarkar	Mb / W	23	RHB RFM	ODI

H K Badani	TN / S	26	LHB	ODI

S V Bahutule	Mb / W	28	LBG

S S Das	Os / E	23	RHB opener	ODI

S S Dighe	Mb / W	32	WK	ODI

R S Dravid	(K) / S	28	RHB vice-captain	ODI

S C Ganguly	Bn / E	28	LHB captain	ODI

Harbhajan Singh	Pj / N	20	OB	ODI

V V S Laxman	Hd / S	26	RHB	ODI

D S Mohanty	Os / E	24	RFM	ODI

A Nehra	D / N	22	LFM	ODI

S Ramesh	TN / S	25	LHB opener

J Srinath	K / S	31	RFM

S R Tendulkar	Mb / W	28	RHB (OB/LB)	ODI

Zaheer Khan	Ba / W	22	LFM	ODI

			V Sehwag	ODI
			R S Sodhi	ODI
			Harvinder Singh	ODI
			D Mongia	ODI

Zonal representation

Duleep Trophy teams

C: Central (1), E: East (3), N: North (2), S: South (5), W: West (5)

Ranji Trophy teams

Ba - Baroda (1)

Bn - Bengal (1)

D - Delhi (2)

Hd - Hyderabad (2)

Hy - Haryana (2)

K - Karnataka (2)

MP - Madhya Pradesh (1)

Mb - Mumbai (3)

Pj - Punjab (2)

Rj - Rajasthan (1)

TN - Tamil Nadu (1)

Average age of team at time of first Test match

(7 June 2001) :

26 yrs 2 months

Test Appearances made before the tour

Tendulkar 82, Srinath 50, Dravid 43, Ganguly 41, Laxman 22, Ramesh 15, Harbhajan 11, Agarkar 9, Das 6, Zaheer Khan 4, Mohanty 2, Bahutule 1, Nehra 1, Dighe 1, Badani 0.

Tour Officials

Chetan Chauhan	Tour Manager
John Wright	Coach
Andrew Leipus	Physiotherapist

John Wright was appointed coach on 2 November 2000, ahead of Greg Chappell and Geoff Marsh.

Selectors

C G Borde (chairman), S M Jagdale, A O Malhotra, S Madan Lal, T A Sekhar

Ganguly was picked as skipper on 21 April. He joined the selectors and coach John Wright at Bangalore on 17 May to pick the 15-member team.

Selection

The names of 25 probables for the tour of Zimbabwe were announced on 22 April. They assembled in Bangalore on 13 May for a five-day preparatory camp.

Unavailable: Anil Kumble (shoulder injury), Reetinder S Sodhi.

Not selected among 25 probables: Yuvraj Singh, V Sehwag, D Mongia, Mohammed Kaif, A Ratra, Deep Dasgupta, Rakesh Patel, Harvinder Singh, Sarandeep Singh, and Rahul Sanghvi.

Test Tour Party Announced : 17 May 2001

Not selected: Virender Sehwag, Dinesh Mongia, Dodda Ganesh and Deep Dasgupta

Time between selection and departure from India

8 days

(17 May - 25 May)

Travel

Mumbai Q Harare

The team assembled in Mumbai and left the airport on Thursday 25 May 2001, arriving at the new Harare International Airport at midday on Friday afternoon after a tiresome journey.

They began their acclimatisation with a strenuous workout within hours of arrival. After attending a function at the Indian High Commission, they left for Mutare by road for their opening match.

Time spent in Zimbabwe

43 days

(26 May - 8 July)

On-tour selection committee

Skipper Saurav Ganguly, coach John Wright, vice-captain Rahul Dravid and manager Chetan Chauhan.

Reinforcements

None

A one-day squad was named in Mumbai on 13 June

Javagal Srinath opted out of the one-day series.

Harvinder Singh (Rlys), D.Mongia (Pj), V.Sehwag (D) and R.S.Sodhi (Pj) were brought in for the one-day tournament

Bahutule, Das, Ramesh (back injury in any case) returned to India on 20 June.

The team management asked that Nehra should stay back with the squad.

Fixtures/Results

a	Mutare	Zimbabwe A	Drawn
b	Harare	CFX Academy	Won 226 r
c	BULAWAYO	ZIMBABWE First Test	WON 8w
d	HARARE	ZIMBABWE Second Test	LOST 4w
e	ϯ Harare	Zimbabwe A	Won 10w
f	§ Harare	Zimbabwe (1st ODI)	Won 9 w
g	§ Bulawayo	Zimbabwe (2nd ODI)	Won 4w
h	§ Bulawayo	West Indies (3rd ODI)	Won 6 w
i	§ Harare	West Indies (4th ODI)	Won 6 w
j	§ Harare	West Indies (ODI final)	Lost 16 r

† not first-class

§ one-day international

Time spent in Zimbabwe before First Test: 12 days

(26 May - 7 June)

Test appearances on tour

2 - Das, Dighe, Dravid, Ganguly, Harbhajan Singh, Laxman, Nehra, Srinath, Tendulkar

1 - Agarkar, Badani, Ramesh, Zaheer Khan.

0 - Bahutule, Mohanty.

Match appearances

T Test match

o one-day international

x other match

∙ played for opposition

W won L lost D drawn

N no result A abandoned

u unknown result

	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	i	j
A B Agarkar		x		T		o	o
H K Badani		x		T	x	o	o	o	o
S V Bahutule		x
S S Das	x	x	T	T
S S Dighe	x	x	T	T	x	o	o	o	o	o
R S Dravid	x		T	T	x	o	o	o	o	o
S C Ganguly	x	x	T	T	x	o	o	o	o	o
Harbhajan Singh	x	x	T	T		o	o		o	o
V V S Laxman	x	x	T	T	x	o				o
D S Mohanty	x				x			o	o	o
A Nehra	x		T	T		o	o		o	o
S Ramesh	x	x	T
J Srinath		x	T	T
S R Tendulkar	x		T	T		o	o	o	o	o
Zaheer Khan	x	x	T		x	o	o	o		o
Harvinder Singh					x			o	o
D Mongia					x		o	o
V Sehwag					x	o	o	o	o	o
R S Sodhi					x			o	o	o
R E S U L T S	D	W	W	L	W	W	W	W	W	L

Highlights

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Tour Summary

	P	W	L	D
Test Matches	2	1	1	0
Other first-class matches	2	1	0	1
ϯ Minor matches	1	1	0	0
§ One-day internationals	5	4	1	0
All Matches	10	7	2	1

Return to India

Harare Q Mumbai

Srinath, Bahutule, Das and Ramesh were not required after the Test series and left for India on 20 June 2001.

The team left Harare for home on Sunday 8 July, and reached Mumbai early on the morning of 9 July

John Wright left Harare for London and re-joined the Indian team a week later.

Back in Mumbai, Ganguly returned to Kolkata where he was kept under armed protection because of kidnap threats by Kashmiri terror group Lashkar-e-Toiba.

Time away from India

45 days

(25 May to 9 July)

Finances

Accounts of the tour

Postscript