| Tour of Bangladesh 2009-10 Captain: M S Dhoni | |
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| India's 62nd Test
tour (January 2010) Fourth Test-playing tour of Bangladesh by India (previous tour
2006-07) | India met Bangladesh
for the first Test series since the hosts’ historic victory over West Indies in
the Caribbean. Although India lost the first one-day encounter, they
then swept all before them, winning a tri-nation ODI tournament against Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. This went some way to
putting right India’s
shambolic performance against Bangladesh
in the 2007 World Cup. On the
eve of the first Test, without their captain MS Dhoni due to a back strain, stand-in
Virender Sehwag said "Bangladesh
are an ordinary side. They can't beat India because they can't take 20
wickets." Albeit discourteous,
this proved correct as India
followed up with victories in the two-Test series. However, Bangladesh put in some great individual
performances and resisted well before India had the better of them. | Other Indian
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| Members of the Test tour party (16) Opening batsmen:Gautam Gambhir,
Virender Sehwag, Murali Vijay. Middle-order batsmen:Sachin Tendulkar,
Rahul Dravid, V.V.S. Laxman, Yuvraj Singh. Wicket-keepers:Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Dinesh Karthik. Spin bowlers:Harbhajan Singh,
Amit Mishra, Pragyan Ojha. Fast bowlers:Sreesanth, Ishant
Sharma, Sudeep Tyagi, Zaheer Khan. | M S Dhoni | Bh | 28 | RHB WK
captain | ODI | | R S Dravid | K | 37 | RHB | | | G
Gambhir | D | 28 | LHB opener | ODI | | Harbhajan
Singh | Pj | 29 | OB | ODI | | K D
Karthik | TN | 24 | WK | ODI | | V V S Laxman | Hd | 35 | RHB | | | A
Mishra | Hy | 27 | LBG | ODI | | P P Ohja
| Hd | 23 | SLA | | | V
Sehwag | D | 31 | RHB opener
vice-captain | ODI | | I
Sharma | D | 21 | RF | | | S Sreesanth | Ke | 26 | RF | ODI | | S R
Tendulkar | Mb | 36 | RHB | | | S Tyagi | UP | 22 | RFM | ODI | | M Vijay | TN | 25 | RHB
opener | | | Yuvraj Singh | PJ | 28 | LHB | ODI | | Zaheer Khan | Ba | 31 | LFM | ODI | | Chosen for the tri-series | A Dinda | ODI | | R A Jadeja | ODI | | | | V
Kohli | ODI | | | | A Nehra | ODI | | | | S K Raina | ODI | | | | R G Sharma
| ODI | | | | | |
|
Zonal representation Duleep Trophy teams C: Central (1), E: East (3), N: North (2), S: South
(5), W: West (5) Ranji Trophy teams Ba - Baroda (1) Bh - Bihar
(1) D - Delhi (3) Hd - Hyderabad (2) Hy - Haryana (1) K - Karnataka (1) Ke - Kerala (1) Mb - Mumbai (1) Pj - Punjab
(2) TN - Tamil Nadu (2) UP - Uttar Pradesh (1) Average
age of team at time of first Test
match (17 January 2010) : 28
yrs 8 months ODI Member of squad for the one-day
international tri-series (Idea Cup) | |
| Test Appearances made before the tour | Tendulkar 162, Dravid 137,
Laxman 108, Harbhajan Singh 80,
Sehwag 72, Zaheer 68, Dhoni 40,
Yuvraj 31, Gambhir 27, Karthik 22,
Ishant Sharma 19, Sreesanth 16,
Mishra 6, Ohja 2, Vijay 2,
Tyagi 0. | | |
| Tour Officials | Arshad
Ayub | Admin
Manager | Gary
Kirsten | Head Coach | Eric
Simons * | Bowling
coach | Paddy
Upton | Conditioning
coach | Nitin
Patel | Physiotherapist | Ramji
Srinivasan | Fitness
trainer | Ramesh
Mane | Masseur | C K M
Dhananjai | Performance
Analyst | Mayank
Parikh | BCCI
coordinator |
*Simons, appointed on 11
January to succeed Venkatesh Prasad, flew to Bangladesh on 17 January. | | |
| Selectors | Kris Srikkanth (chairman),
Narendra Hirwani, Surendra Bhave, Raja Venkat met in Chennai, on Tuesday
evening 5 January taking into account the views of captain Mahendra Singh
Dhoni, coach Gary Kirsten and the North Zone selector Yashpal Sharma who was
not present because he was watching the tri-series in Bangladesh. | | |
| Selection | Arshad
Ayub, the 51 year-old vice-president of Hyderabad
CA, was named as manager on 31
December. Sachin
Tendulkar asked to be rested for the tri-series tournament. Tri-series party announced:
25 December 2009 Test Tour Party Announced: 5 January 2010 Omitted : batsman Subramaniam Badrinath. | Time between
selection and team departure from India 7 days (ODIs) 8
days (Tests) (25 December - 2
January for ODI squad) (5 - 13 January for
Test players). | |
| Travel Mumbai Q Dhaka | The one-day players arrived
in Dhaka on Saturday 2 January 2010 to take
part in the tri-series. On 13 January the Test-only
players flew from Mumbai to Dhaka. They were
Sachin Tendulkar, V V S Laxman, Rahul Dravid, Ishant Sharma, Murali Vijay and
Pragyan Ojha. New South African bowling
coach Eric Simons joined the team on the first day of the opening Test at Chittagong, having arrived at Shah
Amanat International
Airport, Chittagong,
from Dhaka. | Time spent in Bangladesh 26 days (2 January - 28 January) | |
| Reinforcements | None; Yuvraj tore a cartilage on his left wrist,
and Sreesanth suffered a hamstring injury. The team management was about to
send V V S Laxman home with a hand
injury but changed its mind before deciding finally not to include him in the
second Test so he went home. Rahul Dravid was put into hospital by a bouncer from Shahadat Hossain,
suffering a depressed fracture of the left cheek bone, which required an
operation and ruled him out of the tour. | | |
| Fixtures/Results | a | §
Mirpur, Dhaka | Sri Lanka (2nd Tri-Nation ODI) | Lost
5 w | b | §
Mirpur, Dhaka | Bangladesh (3rd Tri-Nation ODI) | Won 6
w | c | §
Mirpur, Dhaka | Sri Lanka (5th Tri-Nation ODI) | Won 8
w | d | §
Mirpur, Dhaka | Bangladesh (6th Tri-Nation ODI) | Won 6
w | e | §
Mirpur, Dhaka | Sri Lanka (Tri-Nation ODI final) | Lost
4 w | f | CHITTAGONG | BANGLADESH First Test | WON 113 r | g | MIRPUR, DHAKA | BANGLADESH Second Test | WON 10 w |
| † not
first-class § Idea Cup Tri-Nation
Tournament ODI Time spent in Bangladesh
before First Test: 15 days (2 January- 17 January) | |
| Test appearances on tour | 2 - Dravid,
Gambhir, Sehwag, I Sharma,
Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan. 1 - Dhoni,
Harbhajan, Karthik, Laxman,
Mishra, Ohja, Sreesanth,
Vijay. 0 - Sudeep Tyagi. | | |
| Match appearances T Test match o one-day international x other match ⊕ T/20 international ∙ played for opposition W won L lost D drawn N no result A abandoned u unknown result Dinda and Rohit Sharma did not play in
any match. | | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | A Dinda | | | | | | | | R A Jadeja | o | o | o | o | o | | | V Kohli | o | o | o | o | o | | | A Nehra | o | o | | o | o | | | S K Raina | o | o | o | o | o | | | R G Sharma | | | | | | | | M S Dhoni | o | o | o | o | o | | T | R S Dravid | | | | | | T | T | G Gambhir | o | o | o | o | o | T | T | Harbhajan Singh | o | o | | | o | | T | K D Karthik | | | o | o | | T | | V V S Laxman
| | | | | | T | | A Mishra | | | o | o | | T | | P P Ohja | | | | | | | T | V Sehwag | o | o | | | o | T | T | I Sharma | | | | | | T | T | S Sreesanth | o | o | o | o | o | T | | S R Tendulkar | | | | | | T | T | S Tyagi | | | o | o | | | | M Vijay | | | | | | | T | Yuvraj Singh | o | o | o | o | o | T | T | Zaheer Khan | o | o | o | | o | T | T | R E S U L T S | L | W | W | W | L | W | W |
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| Highlights | • Dhoni
struck 101 not out in the second tri-series match adding more than 240 runs
while at the wicket • Virat
Kohli’s scores in the tri series included, 91, 71⋆, 102⋆ and he averaged more
than 90. • Sachin
Tendulkar scored 105⋆ in the first Test and Gambhir 116 in the second innings. • Rahul
Dravid (111 retired) and Tendulkar (143) added more than 200 runs for the
third wicket at Mirpur. • Zaheer
Khan’s bowling figures in the Test at Mirpur were 7 for 87 and 3 for 62,
giving him ten in the match | | |
| Tour Summary | | P | W | L | D | Aban | Test Matches | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | - | Other first-class matches | 0 | - | - | - | - | ϯ Minor matches | 0 | - | - | - | - | § One-day internationals | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | - | All Matches | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | - |
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| Return to India Dhaka Q Mumbai/ New Delhi | Owing to injury Sreesanth returned home early on 23
January, and Laxman the next day. Rahul Dravid had been hospitalised and
left for home before the second Test ended on Wednesday afternoon 27 January
reaching Bangalore,
via Mumbai. The team returned from Dhaka to Mumbai on Thursday 28
January, while Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Ishant
Sharma and Harbhajan Singh took an Air India flight to Delhi. | Time away from India 26 days
(2 - 28 January) | |
| Finances | | | |
| Published
accounts of the tour | | | |
| Postscript | | | |