Tour of England 2011        Captain: M S Dhoni
	India's 66th Test tour   Sixteenth Test-playing tour of England by India        (June - Sept 2011)	India suffered another Test series whitewash against England, as had occurred in 1959 (5 Tests) and 1974 (3 Tests). Things got no better in Australia either where another they suffered another 4-0 loss. Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni blamed his batsmen for the humiliating 0-4 series defeat at the hands of an expert bowling attack. Former cricketers criticised the team's "abject surrender" to England, blaming lack of athleticism and fitness; too much reliance on over-30s; mental fatigue because of too much cricket (such as the IPL); and a lack of proper preparation. The series featured some heroic performances from Dravid but the batting of Gambhir, Sehwag, Laxman and Raina was disappointing while the key fast bowler Zaheer Khan was unfit for most of the tour.	Other Indian tours   Previous tour West Indies 2010-11   Next tour Australia 2011-12     Next tour of England   None scheduled
	Members of the Test tour  party (17)     Opening batsmen: Gautam Gambhir, Abhinav Mukund, Virender Sehwag.   Middle-order: Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, V.V.S. Laxman, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina.   Wicket-keepers:Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Wriddhiman Saha.   Spinners: Harbhajan Singh, Amit Mishra   New-ball bowlers: Praveen Kumar, Sreesanth, Ishant Sharma, Zaheer Khan, Munaf Patel.	M S Dhoni Jk 30 RHB   WK   captain ODI   R S Dravid K 38 RHB ODI   G Gambhir D 29 LHB   opener  vice-captain (ODI)   Harbhajan Singh Pj 31 OB     P S S Kumar UP 24 RFM ODI   V V S Laxman Hd 36 RHB     A Mishra Hy LB LBG ODI   A Mukund TN 21 LHB  opener     M M Patel Mb 28 RFM ODI   S K Raina UP 24 LHB   ODI vice-captain ODI   W P Saha Bn 26 WK     V Sehwag D 32 RHB  opener  (ODI)   I Sharma D 22 RF (ODI)   S Sreesanth  Ke 28 RF     SR Tendulkar Mb 38 RHB (ODI)   Yuvraj Singh PJ 29 LHB     Zaheer Khan Ba 32 LFM (ODI)     Varun Aaron  (r) ODI   R Ashwin ODI       R A Jadeja  (r) ODI       V Kohli ODI       P A Patel ODI       A Rahane  (r) ODI       R G Sharma (ODI)       R P Singh ODI       M K Tiwary  (r) ODI       Vinay Kumar ODI	Representation of teams:      Ba  -  Baroda (1) Bn  -  Bengal (1) D   -  Delhi (3) Hd  -  Hyderabad (1) Hy  -  Haryana (1) Jk  -  Jharkhand (1) K  -   Karnataka (1) Ke  -  Kerala (1) Mb  -  Mumbai (2) Pj  -   Punjab (2) TN  -  Tamil Nadu (1) UP  -  Uttar Pradesh (2)         Average age of  team at time of first Test match     (21 July 2011) :       27 yrs  9 months     ODI  member of one-day international squad (ODI)  withdrawn player (r)  reinforcement
	Test Appearances made before the tour	Tendulkar  177,  Dravid  153,  Laxman  123,  Harbhajan Singh 96,  Sehwag  87,  Zaheer Khan 78,  Dhoni  58,  Gambhir 38,  Ishant Sharma  34,  Yuvraj Singh 34,  Sreesanth  24,  Patel 13,  Mishra 11,  Raina 11,  Kumar 3,  Mukund 3,  Saha 0.
	Team Officials	Anirudh Chaudhary Manager Shivlal Yadav Manager (ODI series)  Duncan Fletcher Head coach Eric Symons Bowling coach Trevor Penney Fielding coach Ashish Kaushik Physiotherapist Ramji Srinivasan Fitness trainer Ramesh Mane Masseur C K M Dhananjai Computer analyst M A Satheesh Travel director   Manager Anirudh Chaudhary from Haryana was younger than Tendulkar, Dravid and Laxman, the three senior players in the Indian team He was a member of the BCCI Finance Committee and was the son of a former Secretary of BCCI.
	Selectors	K Srikkanth (chairman),  N D Hirwani, C R Venkatraman, M B Amarnath,  Surendra Bhave.
	Selection	Unavailable :  Cheteshwar Pujara (knee injury). Tour Party Announced: 2 July 2011 Omitted :  Murali Vijay,  Virat Kohli,  Parthiv Patel.	Time between selection and departure from India  9 days   (2 July - 11 July)
	Travel	Half of the Indian touring team  -  Dhoni,  Dravid,  Harbhajan,  Kumar,  Laxman,  Mishra,  Mukund,  Patel,  Raina and Sharma  -  flew to London direct from the West Indies Test series. The rest (Gautam Gambhir, Zaheer Khan, Yuvraj Singh, Sreesanth and Wriddhiman Saha) flew out of Mumbai for England on 11 July 2011.  Tendulkar was already in England, and one player arrived from Australia. Virender Sehwag, out of action since undergoing shoulder surgery in May, was given two extra weeks to recover.  He flew in from New Delhi on Wed 3 August. ODI reinforcement Manoj Tiwary flew from Kolkata to Mumbai and on to Heathrow Airport on 5 September.  Ravindra Jadeja was much delayed awaiting his visa, but arrived at Heathrow on the morning before the 3rd ODI.	Time spent in England  67 days (12 July - 17 September)
	On-tour selection committee
	Reinforcements	Virat Kohli (Delhi, 22, RHB), after Yuvraj Singh fractured a left index finger, and Pragyan Ohja (Hyderabad, 24, SLA) after Harbhajan Singh suffered an abdominal muscle strain, both in the Trent Bridge Test.  Ohja, who was set to play for Surrey but joined the touring side instead, flew from Hyderabad on 5 August. Zaheer Khan (hamstring and ankle injuries) was also ruled out by an injury suffered during the first Test.. The replacement left-arm fast bowlerRudra Pradeep Singh was reportedly vacationing in Miami when called up. Gambhir (concussion) Virender Sehwag (shoulder) and Ishant Sharma (left ankle ligaments) were ruled out of the one-day matches on 22 August.  Ravindra Jadeja, Ajinkya Rahane and Varun Aaron were chosen as their replacements R Ashwin,  P A Patel, R G Sharma and R Vinay Kumar also came in for the one day matches. S Badrinath and M K Tiwary were added to the squad during the one-day international series when Tendulkar (toe injury) and Rohit Sharma (broken finger) went home injured.
	Fixtures/Results	a Taunton Somerset Drawn b LORD'S ENGLAND  First Test LOST 196 r c TRENT BRIDGE  ENGLAND  Second Test LOST 319 r d † Northampton Northamptonshire (2-day) Drawn e EDGBASTON ENGLAND  Third Test LOST inns 242 r f KENNINGTON OVAL ENGLAND  Fourth Test LOST inns 8 r g † Hove Sussex (one-day) Won 6 w h † Canterbury Kent (one-day) Won 5 r i † Leicester Leicestershire (one-day) Won 15 r j ⊕ Old Trafford England (only T20) Lost 6 w k § Chester-le-Street England (1st ODI) No result l § Southampton England (2nd ODI) Lost 7 w m § Kennington Oval England (3rd ODI) Lost 3 w n § Lord's England (4th ODI) Tied o § Cardiff England (5th ODI) Lost 6 w	† not first-class §  ODI ⊕  T20 international     Time spent in England before First Test:  9 days (12 - 21 July)
	Test appearances on tour	4  -   Dhoni, Dravid, Laxman, Raina, I Sharma, Tendulkar 3  -   Gambhir,  P Kumar, Sreesanth 2  -   Harbhajan,  Mishra, Mukund, Sehwag. 1 -    R P Singh, Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan 0  -   Kohli,  Ohja,  M Patel,  Saha.
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	Tour Summary	P W L D T Aban Test Matches   4 0 4 0 0 - Other first-class matches   1 0 0 1 0 - † Minor matches   4 3 0 1 0 - ⊕ 20/20 internationals   1 0 1 0 0 - §  One-day internationals   5 0 3 1 1 - All Matches 15 3 8 3 1 -
	Return to India	Harbhajan and Yuvraj Singh left on the same day, midway through the Test series. Laxman, Mukund, Ohja, Saha, Sreesanth were not required for the one-day matches and left the tour after the Test series. Gambhir, Sehwag, Ishant Sharma and Zaheer Khan all returned to India injured. Tendulkar (toe injury) and Rohit Sharma (broken finger) went home injured during the one-day series. The one-day team landed at Mumbai airport on Sunday morning 18 September 2011	Time away from India  69 days   (11 July - 18 September 2011)
	Finances

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