Tour of England 1990        Captain: Mohammad Azharuddin
	India's thirtieth Test tour     Twelfth Test-playing tour of  England by India      (June - September 1990)	The Indian Board created the post of cricket manager so, with Bedi taking a place, there was room for only 16 players.  Kris Srikkanth was dropped and Shastri became vice-captain.  Bedi arranged fitness training at the Nehru Stadium and a preparation camp and described the tour party as India's first scientifically prepared team.	Other Indian tours     Previous tour New Zealand 1989-90   Next tour Australia 1991-92   Next England tour 1996
	Members of the Test tour  party (16)     Opening batsmen:Navjot Singh Sidhu, Woorkeri Raman Middle-order batsmen: Mohammad Azharuddin, Dilip Vengsarkar, Sanjay Manjrekar, Sachin Tendulkar, Wicket-keepers:  Kiran More, Nayan Mongia Spin bowlers   Ravi Shastri, Anil Kumble, Narendra Hirwan, Venkatapathy Raju Fast bowlers:  Kapil Dev, Manoj Prabhakar, Sanjeev Sharma, Atul Wasson	Mohammad Azharuddin Hd 27 RHB    captain ODI   N D Hirwani MP 21 LBG ODI   Kapil Dev Hy 31 RHB   RFM ODI   A Kumble K 19 LBG ODI   S V Manjrekar B 25 RHB ODI   N R Mongia Ba 20 reserve WK ODI   K S More Ba 27 WK ODI   M Prabhakar D 27 RFM ODI   W V Raman TN 25 LHB  opener   (SLA) ODI   S K Sharma D 24 RFM ODI   R J Shastri B 28 RHB  opener   SLA   vice-captain ODI   N S Sidhu Pj 26 RHB  opener ODI   S R Tendulkar B 17 RHB   (RM/OB) ODI   D B Vengsarkar B 34 RHB ODI   S L V Raju Hd 21 SLA ODI   A S Wasson D 22 RFM ODI       ODI     ODI	Representation of teams:     Ba -  Baroda (2) B  - Bombay (4) D  - Delhi  (3) Hy -  Haryana (1) Hd – Hyderabad (2)  K  - Karnataka (1) MP – Madhya Pradesh (1) Pj – Punjab (1) TN – Tamil Nadu (1)        Average age of  team at time of first Test match (26 July 1990):       24 yrs  8 months
	Test Appearances made before the tour	Vengsarkar 107,  Kapil Dev 106,  Shastri 69,  Azharuddin 37,  More 31,  Sidhu 14,  Manjrekar 12,  Hirwani 10,  Prabhakar 9,  Tendulkar 7,  Raman 6,  Wasson 3,  Raju 2,  Sharma 1,  Kumble 0,  Mongia 0.
	Team Officials	M K Mantri Tour Manager Bishan Singh Bedi Coach Dr Ali Irani Physiotherapist
	Selectors	Raj Singh Dungarpur (chairman),  Akash Lal,  Ramesh Saxena,  Naren Tamhane,  Gundappa Viswanath.
	Selection	Unavailable:  Tour Party Announced : 7 May 1990. Not selected  :  Kris Srikkanth, Ajay Jadeja, Bhaskar Pillai. There were no players from the Ranji Trophy champion side, Bengal. Reserves:  batsmen K P Bhaskar (Delhi) and Ajay Jadeja (Haryana), wicket-keeper Sunil Chaturvedi (UP), and bowlers Subrato Banerjee and off-break spinner Sardendu Mukherjee (Bengal).	Time between selection and departure from India   46 days  (7 May - 22 June)
	Travel	The team had three days of fitness tests at Human Proficiency Lab in the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi at the end of May, followed by a fortnight's preparation camp in Bangalore (1-15 June) The team left Bombay early on Friday morning 22 June 1990. Kumble was permitted to leave by a later flight on 24 June as he was sitting his engineering examinations in Bangalore.	Time spent in England    71 days (22 June - 2 September)
	On-tour selection committee	Mohammad Azharuddin (captain),  Bishan Bedi (coach),  Ravi Shastri (vice-captain)
	Reinforcements	No replacement was sought for Raju (who returned home early after a ball from Courtenay Walsh broke his arm) as it was not possible for anyone to be ready in time for the second Test. The choice seemed likely to have fallen on Gopal Singh or Sardindu Mukherjee of Bengal but he had played only two first-class matches before.
	Fixtures/Results	† Edmonton (23 June) Edmonton Cricket Club   † Osterley  (24 June) Indian Gymkhana   † Sunderland League Cricket Conference Won 40 r Headingley Yorkshire Drawn Southampton Hampshire Lost 7 w Canterbury Kent Won 7 w Trowbridge Minor Counties Drawn † Titwood Scotland Won 7 w † Chesterfield Derbyshire Won 2 w § Headingley England (1st ODI) Won 6 w § Trent Bridge England  (2nd ODI) Won 5 w Leicester Leicestershire Drawn LORD'S ENGLAND   First Test LOST 247 r The Oval Surrey Drawn Bristol Gloucestershire Drawn OLD TRAFFORD ENGLAND    Second Test DRAWN Edgbaston TCCB Under-25 XI Drawn Swansea Glamorgan Drawn THE OVAL ENGLAND   Third Test DRAWN Scarborough Michael Parkinson's World XI Drawn	§  one-day international † not first-class     Time spent in England before First Test:   34 days (22 June - 26 July)
	Test appearances on tour	3 -   Azharuddin,  Hirwani,  Kapil Dev,  Manjrekar,  More,  Prabhakar,  Shastri,  Sidhu,  Tendulkar,  Vengsarkar 2 -   1 -   Kumble,  Sharma,  Wassan. 0 -   Mongia,  Raman,  Raju.
	Highlights	•    At Lord's Graham Gooch was dropped by Kiran More on 33. The England opener went on to score 333. He made 123 in the second innings, and yet another hundred (116) in the 2nd Test at Old Trafford. •    Azharuddin made 179 in the first innings at Lord's and the teenager Sachin Tendulkar 119 not out in the second. •    India enforced the follow-on at The Oval after posting 606 for 9 thanks to Shastri (187) and Kapil Dev (110). There were fifteen centuries (six scored by India) in the three Test series, a record number.
	Tour Summary	P W L D Aban Test Matches   3 0 1   2 - Other first-class matches 10 1 1   8 - † Minor matches   5 3 0   0 - § One-day internationals   2 2 0   0 - All Matches 20 6 2 10 -
	Return to India	On 1 September the team returned to London and left for India next day.  Ravi Shastri and Manoj Prabhakar stayed behind in England, as nine members of the team as well as the administrative manager, Madhav Mantri, took an Air India flight from London into Sahar International Airport, Bombay, arriving on 3 September.  Azharuddin and others from the south then took a flight to Hyderabad.  Five players from the north and the cricket manager Bedi arrived on a direct flight from London to Delhi.	Time away from India   72 days   (22 June to 3 September)
	Finances	Members of Indian touring sides would now be given graded payments according to the number of Tests, ODIs, etc. they had played but this was introduced only for professionals. Prize money worth Rs 11 lakhs was available to the players on the tour.
	Published accounts of the tour

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