Tour of England 2002       Captain: Saurav Ganguly
	48th Indian Test tour   14th Test-playing tour of England by India    (June  -      September 2002)	India won the NatWest Trophy triangular one-day series at Lord's by beating England, thanks to a spectacular run-chase headed by 87* from Man of the Match, Mohammad Kaif. The tourists then played their first four-Test series against England since 1979. England won the first Test comprehensively but India through Dravid (115), Tendulkar (92) and Ganguly (99) saved the second Test match and then dominated the third Test at Headingley.  After Indis’a marvellous middle-order of Dravid, Tendulkar and Ganguly had again each scored centuries in India's massive innings total of 628 - 8 declared, the spinners Kumble and Harbhajan Singh steadily dismissed England.  Forced to follow on, England topped 300 but again the spinners took wickets and saw India to victory.  The final match at The Oval was a high-scoring draw leaving the series tied and honours even.	Other Indian tours   Previous tour  West Indies 2001-02   Next tour New Zealand 2002-03   Next England tour 2007
	Members of the Test tour  party  (16)       Opening batsmen: Shiv Sundur Das, Virender Sehwag, Wasim Jaffer Middle-order batsmen: Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, All-rounder: Sanjay Bangar Wicket-keepers: Partiv Patel, Ajay Ratra Spinners: Harbhajan Singh, Anil Kumble Fast bowlers: Ajit Agarkar, Ashish Nehra, Tinu Yohannan, Zaheer Khan	A B Agarkar Mb 24 RHB    RFM ODI   S B Bangar Rly 30 RHB opener  RFM     S S Das Os 24 RHB     R S Dravid K 29 RHB   vice-captain ODI   S C Ganguly Bn 30 LHB   captain ODI   Harbhajan Singh Pj 22 OB ODI   A Kumble K 31 LBG ODI   V  V  S Laxman Hd 27 RHB ODI   A Nehra D 23 LFM ODI   P A Patel Gj 17 reserve WK     A Ratra Hy 20 WK ODI   V  Sehwag D 23 RHB  opener ODI   S R Tendulkar Mb 29 RHB ODI   Wasim Jaffer Mb 24 RHB opener     T Yohannan Ke 23 RFM ODI   Zaheer Khan Ba 23 LFM ODI     Joined the tour party for the Mohammad Kaif  (UP) ODI   one-day internationals D Mongia (Pj) ODI       Yuvraj Singh (Pj) ODI	Representation of teams:     Ba - Baroda (1) Bn - Bengal (1) D - Delhi (2) Gj - Gujarat (1) Hd - Hyderabad (1) Hy - Haryana (1) K - Karnataka (2) Ke - Kerala (1) Mb - Mumbai (3) Os - Orissa (1) Pj - Punjab (1) Rly - Railways (1)         Average age of  team at time of first Test match (25 July 2002) :      25 yrs  5 months     ODI  - member of squad for National Westminster Bank Triangular 2002
	Test Appearances made before the tour	Tendulkar 96,  Kumble 70,  Dravid 60,  Ganguly 58,  Laxman 35,  Harbhajan 25, Das 23,  Zaheer 16, Agarkar 11,  Nehra 8,  Bangar 5,  Jaffer 5,  Sehwag 5,  Ratra 4,  Yohannan 2,  Patel 0.
	Team Officials	M Ranga Reddy Senior Team Manager Rajeev Shukla BCCI Tour Manager John Wright Coach Amrit Mathur Communications Manager Andrew Leipus Physiotherapist   Rajeev Shukla from UP was a member of Rajya Sabha - the upper house of the Indian parliament.  Ranga Reddy was President of Hyderabad Cricket Association.
	Selectors	Chandu Borde (West - Chairman),  Madan Lal (North),  Sanjay Jagdale (Central),  Ashok Malhotra  (East),  Shivlal Yadav  (South).
	Selection	On Tuesday 4 June the selectors chose to retain Ganguly as captain on the tour of England   The meeting on 8 June was shifted from Mumbai to  Kolkata to allow Board president Jagmohan Dalmiya to hold a discussion with the selectors before their 3-hour meeting to choose the team.   Unavailable:  Srinath announced his retirement from Test cricket   Tour Party Announced : 8 June 2002 Not selected :  Gautam Gambhir,  Murali Kartik.   The Test and ODI squads were picked at the same time to avoid later having to confer by video-conference with selectors who would be in England. After the one-day series, Dinesh Mongia, Mohammed Kaif and Yuvraj Singh would return to India, being replaced by openers Shiv Sundar Das, Wasim Jaffer, allrounder Sanjay Bangar and wicket-keeper Partiv Patel.   The selectors held an emergency meeting in Kolkata on 16 July to decide that Mohammed Kaif and Yuvraj Singh would stay back with the India squad for the Test series against England - but Yuvraj had a broken little finger which would keep him out of action for at least three weeks, so he returned to India,	Time between selection and departure from India   10 days  (8 June - 18 June)
	Travel	Ganguly, through taking a late flight from Kolkata to Mumbai, again missed the Monday pre-tour press conference and left it to his vice-captain Rahul Dravid. The team departed from Mumbai on Tuesday morning 18 June 2002 and was received at London Airport by Air India’s Regional Director, Mr Sharma. Test squad members Bangar, Das, Patel and Wasim Jaffer joined the team the day before the one-day tournament final	Time spent in England    94 days (18 June - 10 September)
	On-tour selection committee	Wright (coach), Ganguly (captain), Dravid (vice-captain), Tendulkar (senior player), Ranga Reddy (team manager)
	Reinforcements	Mohammad Kaif  and  Dinesh Mongia, although not in the original Test squad, remained with the touring party after the ODI series as cover for injuries. They played in only the first first-class match at Arundel but were granted permission to play for English county Leicestershire, as did Srinath. The tour selectors also wanted an additional seamer, preferably L. Balaji, to support the four fast bowlers already in the group but this was not granted
	Fixtures/Results	† Hove Sussex Won 3 w † Canterbury Kent Lost 21 r † Leicester Leicestershire Won 54 r § Lord's England  (1st ODI) Won 6 w § Kennington Oval Sri Lanka  (2nd ODI) Won 4 w § Chester-le-Street England  (3rd ODI) No result § Edgbaston Sri Lanka  (4th OD)I Won 4 w § Kennington Oval England  (5th ODI) Lost 64 r § Bristol Sri Lanka  (6th ODI) Won 63 r § Lord's England  (ODI Final) Won 2 w Arundel West Indies A Drawn Southampton Hampshire Won 66 r LORD'S ENGLAND  First Test LOST 170 r Worcester Worcestershire Drawn TRENT BRIDGE ENGLAND  Second Test DRAWN Chelmsford Essex Drawn HEADINGLEY ENGLAND Third Test WON inns 46 r Derby Derbyshire Drawn KENNINGTON OVAL ENGLAND  Fourth Test DRAWN	† not first-class § one day internationals   Time spent in England before First Test:  37 days (18 June - 25 July)
	Test appearances on tour	4 -    Agarkar, Dravid, Ganguly, Laxman, Sehwag, Tendulkar, Zaheer Khan. 3 -    Harbhajan Singh, Kumble. 2 -    Bangar, Jaffer, Nehra, Patel, Ratra. 0 -    Das, Yohannan.
	Highlights	•    Agarkar, batting at number 8, scored 109 not out in a losing cause in the first Test at Lord's •    Dravid (115), Tendulkar 92) and Ganguly (99) brought India a draw in the second Test.  At Headingley each scored a century as India amassed an innings of 628-8 d to win at Headingley •    Parthiv Patel, at 17 years and 158 days, became the youngest-ever wicket-keeper to play in a Test match •    Kumble took 3-93 and 4-66 at Headingley to help dismiss England twice and India to win by an innings and 46 runs at Headingley, their largest Test victory overseas. •    In the Oval Test Dravid scored 217, his third century of the series, bringing his aggregate to 602 runs.
	Tour Summary	P W L D Test Matches   4 1 1 2 Other first-class matches   5 1 0 4 † Minor matches   3 2 1 0 §One-day internationals   7 5 1 1 All Matches 19 9 3 7
	Return to India	The three ODI players were due to return on Tuesday 16 July but the injured Yuvraj Singh alone went home after the one-day series, and he arrived in Mumbai on 18 July. The Indian Test squad left London on 10 September 2002 and landed at Chatrapati Shivaji Airport in Mumbai on Wednesday morning en route to the Champions Trophy in Sri Lanka. They reached Colombo on 12 September.	Time away from India   94 days   (8 June to 11 September)
	Finances

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