Tour of Bangladesh 2009-10        Captain:  M S Dhoni

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 tours

Previous tour

New Zealand 2008-09

Next tour

Sri Lanka 2010

Next tour of Bangladesh

 2015

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.

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

*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

†  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.

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

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