Tour of England 2007        Captain: Rahul Dravid

India's 58th Test tour

Fifteenth Test-playing tour of England by India

 (June - August 2007)

India's 1-0 series victory in England lifted them to third position in the ICC Test Championship

India took the one-day series against England to 3-all with a thrilling victory at The Oval before England anti-climactically

Fast bowler Sreesanth was fined half his match fee for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct barging into Michael Vaughan during the fourth day of the second Test at Trent Bridge. He also bowled a beamer at Kevin Pietersen.

Other Indian tours

Previous tour

Bangladesh 2006-07

Next tour

Australia 2007-08

Next England tour

2011

Members of the Test tour  party (16)

Opening batsmen: Wasim Jaffer, Dinesh Karthik, Gautam Gambhir

Middle-order batsmen: Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Yuvraj Singh

Wicket-keepers: Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Spinners: Ramesh Powar, Anil Kumble

Fast bowlers: Rudra Pratap Singh, Zaheer Khan, Sreesanth, Ishant Sharma, Ranadeb Bose.

Ba - Baroda (1)

Bn - Bengal (2)

D - Delhi (2)

Hd - Hyderabad (1)

Jk - Jharkhand (1)

K - Karnataka (2)

Ke - Kerala (1)

Mb - Mumbai (3)

Pj - Punjab (1)

TN  - Tamil Nadu (1)

UP  - Uttar Pradesh (1)

Average age of  team at time of first Test match

Test Appearances made before the tour

Tendulkar 137,  Kumble 115,  Dravid 109,  Ganguly 93,  Laxman 80,  Zaheer 47,  Wasim Jaffer 19,  Yuvraj 19,  Dhoni 17,  Gambhir 13,  Kharthik 13,  Srteesanth 8,  R P Singh 4,  Powar 2,  Sharma 1,  Bose 0

Team Officials

The team were at first without an administrative or media manager, until appointments were announced on 21 June. Shukla was a BCCI Vice-President while Rockey was a senior member of the management committee of Baroda Cricket Association. He joined the tour on 4 July.

Nitin Patel who was based in London was appointed as physiotherapist on 26 June after John Gloster fractured his arm at a training session in Ireland and was out for six weeks.

Selectors

Dilip Vengsarkar (West Zone - chairman of selectors),  Venkatapathy Raju (South Zone), Bhupinder Singh (North), Sanjay Jadgale (Central) and Ranjib Biswal (East), and Rahul Dravid (captain) met in Delhi.

Selection

The BCCI called 29 players for fitness camps in June before selection:

4-8 June Bowlers' camp at the Infosys Campus in Mysore :

Zaheer Khan, Rudra Pratap Singh, V.R.V. Singh, Ishant Sharma, S. Sreesanth, Ajit Agarkar, Irfan Pathan, Ranadeb Bose, Munaf Patel, Anil Kumble, Ramesh Powar, Rajesh Pawar, Harbhajan Singh and Pragyan Ohja

Leg spinner Piyush Chawla and medium pacer V. Yomahesh not included as they were training at the Australian Academy

9-12 June  Batsmen's camp at the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore:
Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Wasim Jaffer, V.V.S. Laxman, Gautam Gambhir, Robin Uthappa, Virender Sehwag, Dinesh Mongia, M.S. Dhoni, Dinesh Kartik, Rohit Sharma, Mohd Kaif, S. Badrinath and Yuvraj Singh.

Unavailable:  Manoj Tiwary (rehabilitation after surgery on right shoulder)

Test Tour Party Announced : 12 June 2007.

The one-day squad for Ireland and Scotland was announced at the same time.

Omitted:  Harbhajan Singh, Aakash Chopra,  Munaf Patel (unfit),  Irfan Pathan,  Virender Sehwag.

Squad for one-day matches in England announced: 7 August 2007.

The only change from the ODI team to Ireland was that Munaf Patel replaced Sreesanth.

Travel

Between 13-16 June a conditioning camp under camp co-ordinator Ramesh Rao was held for the selected players at the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore. A strike by Indian Airline employees prevented six players from reaching the camp until the second day.

The 15-member, one-day squad left Mumbai on Tuesday night 19 June and flew to London Heathrow on Wed 20 June 2007, and on to Belfast City Airport. 

Ishant Sharma and Ranadeb Bose flew in on Wednesday 27 June to cover for unfit or unwell fast bowlers.

The team arrived in London from Glasgow on Wednesday 5 July, joining Kumble, Jaffer and Laxman who had arrived the day before, for the start of the tour matches in England.

On-tour selection committee

Rahul Dravid (captain),  Chandu Border (manager/coach),  Dilip Vengsarkar (on tour selector).

Reinforcements

Before their series against South Africa, a virus affected the Indian camp. Fast bowlers Rakesh Patel and Arjun Yadav, playing in the Liverpool Leagues, were drafted in as emergency cover. Ishant Sharma and Ranadeb Bose, who were due to fly in with the Test squad, were called up early but none of them was required.

Fixtures/Results

† not first-class

§ one-day international

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Test appearances on tour

3  -   Dhoni,  Dravid,  Ganguly,  Kharthik,  Kumble,  Laxman,  RP Singh,  Sreesanth,  Tendulkar,  Wasim Jaffer,  Zaheer Khan.

0 -     Bose, Gambhir, Powar, Sharma, Yuvraj.

Highlights

•    Both teams went through the three-Test series unchanged.

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Tour Summary

Return to India

The last ODI match ended on 8 September 2007. Mahendra Singh Dhoni now took over the leadership of the Indian side as it flew to Johannesburg for the Twenty20 World Championships in South Africa arriving on Monday 10 September.

Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Ramesh Powar, Zaheer Khan and Munaf Patel were not required for the T20 World Championships and returned to India.

Finances