Tour of England 1986                Captain: Kapil Dev
	India's 26th Test tour   Eleventh Test-playing tour of England by India          (April - July 1986)	India’s unfancied bowling attack of Maninder Singh and Chetan Sharma, with able support from Binny and Madan Lal, surprisingly led to India’s series victory by two matches to none.    Chetan Sharma became the subject of a police enquiry after an autograph-seeking spectator at Leicester complained of being punched in the face  as the players left the field.	Other Indian tours     Previous tour Australia 1985-86   Next tour West Indies 1988-89   Next tour of England 1990
	Members of the Test tour  party  (16)     Openers:Sunil Gavaskar, Kris Srikkanth Batsmen: Mohinder Amarnath, Mohammad Azharuddin, Sandeep Patil, Raman Lamba, Dilip Vengsarkar Wicket-keeper:  Kiran More, Chandrakant Pandit Spin bowlers:  Maninder Singh, Shivlal Yadav, Ravi Shastri Fast bowlers:  Kapil Dev, Manoj Prabhakar, Roger Binny, Madan Lal, Chetan Sharma.	M B Amarnath Ba 35 RHB   RM   Mohammad Azharuddin Hd 23 RHB   R M H Binny K 30 RHB   RFM   S M Gavaskar B 36 RHB  opener   Kapil Dev Hy 27 RHB  RFM   captain   R Lamba D 26 RHB   Maninder Singh D 21 SLA   K S More Ba 23 WK   C S Pandit B 24 RHB  second WK   S M Patil B 29 RHB   M Prabhakar D 23 RFM   Chetan Sharma Hy 20 RFM   R J Shastri B 24 RHB   SLA   K Srikkanth TN 26 RHB  opener   D B Vengsarkar B 30 RHB   N S Yadav Hd 29 OB	Representation of teams:    Ba  - Baroda (2) B   -  Bombay (5) D  -  Delhi (3) Hy – Haryana (2) H  -  Hyderabad (2) K  -  Karnataka (1) TN - Tamil Nadu (1)                Average age of  team at time of first Test match  (5 June 1986) :       28 yrs  4 months
	Test Appearances made before the tour	Gavaskar 112,  Vengsarkar 82,  Kapil Dev 74,  Amarnath 54,  Shastri 40,  Patil 29,  Yadav 26,  Binny 21,  Maninder 15, Srikkanth 14,  Chetan Sharma 10,  Azharuddin 9,  Prabhakar 2,  Lamba 0,  More 0,  Pandit 0  (Madan Lal  38)
	Team Officials	Raj Singh Dungarpur Tour Manager V B Prabhudesai Assistant Manager   Physiotherapist
	Selectors	Chandu Borde (chairman),  Ambar Roy,  M M Sood,  Kripal Singh, Hanumant Singh met in New Delhi.
	Selection	Kapil Dev was appointed captain for the England tour on 2 March. Unavailable:  S M H Kirmani Tour Party Announced : 18 March The teams were chosen for the Australasia Cup (one-day internationals) in Sharjah, as well as England. Not selected:    L Sivaramakrishnan, Lalchand Rajput and Goan all-rounder Sanju Mudkavi.  Chandu Borde was also criticised for not pushing the case for Maharashtra's batsman Milind Gunjal to be selected for the tour.   Madan Lal and Kirti Azad were chosen for the Sharjah one-day matches only. Sandeep Patil was recalled.	Time between selection and departure from India   39 days  (18 March - 26 April)
	Travel	A conditioning camp, under coach Gurcharan Singh and physical conditioning expert, Captain Dogra, took place in Bangalore between 20 and 29 March. A drought relief fund match between the touring party and Rest of India XI was played in front of 20 000 fans at Chinnaswamy Stadium on 23 March. The team left Bombay for Frankfurt in the early hours of Saturday 26 April, and took an interconnecting flight to Amsterdam. After three matches in Holland on 27, 28, 29 April, they flew in to London on Wednesday 30 April. Kapil Dev skipped the Holland tour and joined the team in England.	Time spent in England    77 days (30 April- 16 July 1986)
	On-tour selection
	Reinforcements	S Madan Lal  (D), 35, was summoned from his Central Lancashire League club, Ashton-under-Lyne, for his experience of English conditions when Chetan Sharma was unfit for the 2nd Test match.
	Fixtures/Results	Bangalore (23 March) Rest of India XI Won 48 r       † Eindhoven Netherlands Won 102 r † Wassenaar Netherlands Won 26 r † Schiedam Netherlands Won 11 r       † Osterley Indian Gymkhana Won † Arundel Duchess of Norfolk's XI Lost 5 w Worcester Worcestershire Drawn Cheltenham Gloucestershire Drawn † Kennington  Oval Surrey Won 5 w Southampton Hampshire Drawn Canterbury Kent Drawn § The Oval England (1st ODI) Won 9 w §  Old Trafford England   (2nd ODI) Lost 5 w † Belfast Ireland No result † Downpatrick Ireland Won 9 r Northampton Northamptonshire Drawn LORD'S ENGLAND  First Test WON 5 w † Oxford Oxford & Cambridge Univ Drawn Leicester Leicestershire Drawn HEADINGLEY ENGLAND  Second Test WON 279 r †Chester le Street League Cricket Conference Won 72 r Taunton Somerset Drawn EDGBASTON ENGLAND  Third Test DRAWN † Dumfries Scotland Won 3 w † Dumfries Scotland Won 52 r Scarborough Yorkshire Won 5 w † Harrogate Pakistan(charity match) Won 1 w	† not first-class . Time spent in England before First Test:  36 days (30 April - 5 June)
	Test appearances on tour	3  -  Azharuddin, Binny, Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Maninder, More, Shastri, Srikkanth, Vengsarkar 2  -  Amarnath,  Sharma. 1 -   Madan Lal,  Pandit 0 -   Lamba,  Patil,  Prabhakar,  Yadav.
	Highlights	•    Kapil Dev hit three 4s and a six in one over to get the winning runs at Lord's. It was his first victory in 21 Tests as India's captain, and India's first Test victory at Lord's •    India's most decisive 'away' triumph (if you count the whole sub-continent as 'home') was made possible by the performances of Chetan Sharma, Roger Binny and Madan Lal in support of their captain’s bowling. •    Vengsarkar became the first overseas batsman to score three hundreds in Test matches at Lord's.
	Tour Summary	P  W L  D Aban Test Matches   3   2 0   1 - Other first-class matches   8   1 0   7 - † Minor matches 12   8 1   3 - §  One-day internationals   2   1 1   0 - All Matches 25 12 2 11 -
	Return to India	Departure was on 16 July 1986.  Six members of the team (Azharuddin, More, Yadav, Binny, Srikkanth and C Sharma) returned to India with second official Prabhudesai. They landed at Bombay on 18 July. Others, including Kapil Dev and Manager Raj Singh Dungarpur, stayed back in England or went to United States on a private tour.	Time away from India   83 days   (26 April  to 18 July)
	Finances	Members of the 1986 tour party including manager and assistant were awarded a Rs 10 000 bonus.

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