| Tour of Zimbabwe
2000-01 Captain: Sourav Ganguly | |
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| 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. | Other Indian
tours Previous
tour Bangladesh 2000-01 Next
tour Sri Lanka 2001 Next Zimbabwe tour 2005-06. | |
| 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 |
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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 |
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| Highlights | • • • • • | | |
| 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 |
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| 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 | | | |