| Tour of Pakistan
2005-06 Captain: Rahul Dravid | |
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| India's 54th Test tour (January
- February 2006) Seventh
Test-playing tour of Pakistan
by India (previous tour 2003-04) | Sourav Ganguly was controversially selected Helped by the absence of Shoaib Akhtar,
the Indians won four of the five one-day internationals | Other Indian
tours Previous
tour Zimbabwe 2005-06 Next
tour West Indies 2005-06 Next Pakistan tour None scheduled | |
| Members
of the Test tour party (16) Opening batsmen: Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Waseem
Jaffer. Middle-order batsmen: Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, V V S Laxman,
Yuvraj Singh. Wicket-keepers:Mahendra
Singh Dhoni, Parthiv Patel. Spinners: Harbhajan Singh, Anil Kumble Fast bowlers:Rudra
Pradeep Singh, Zaheer Khan, Irfan Pathan, Ajit Agarkar. | A B Agarkar | (Mb) / (W) | 27 | RHB RFM | ODI | | M S
Dhoni | (Bh) / (E) | 23 | RHB WK | ODI | | R S
Dravid | (K) / (S) | 31 | RHB captain | ODI | | G Gambhir | D / (N) | 23 | LHB opener | ODI | | S C Ganguly | Bn / E | 32 | LHB | | | Harbhajan Singh | (Pj) / (N) | 24 | OB | ODI | | A Kumble | K / (S) | 34 | LBG | | | V V S
Laxman | Hd / S | 30 | RHB | | | P A Patel | Gj / W | 19 | reserve WK | | | I K Pathan | (Ba) / (W) | 20 | LHB LFM | ODI | | R P Singh | (UP) / C | 19 | LFM | ODI | | V Sehwag | D / (N) | 26 | RHB opener
OB vice-captain | ODI | | S R Tendulkar | (Mb) / (W) | 31 | RHB | ODI | | Wasim Jaffer | Mb / W | 26 | RHB opener | | | Yuvraj Singh | (Pj) / (N) | 23 | HB | ODI | | Zaheer Khan | Ba / W | 26 | LFM | ODI | | | Brought
in for the one-day series: | Mohammad
Kaif | ODI | | M
Kartik | ODI | | R R
Powar | ODI | | | | S K
Raina | ODI | | | | S Sreesanth | ODI |
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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 (2) Bn - Bengal
(1) Bh - Bihar/Jharkand (1) D - Delhi (2) Gj - Gujarat
(1) H - Hyderabad (1) K - Karnataka (2) Mb - Mumbai (3) Pj - Punjab
(2) UP -
Uttar Pradesh (1) Average age of team at time of first Test match (13 January 2005) : 26 yrs 4 months | |
| Test
Appearances made before the tour | Tendulkar 126, Kumble 100,
Dravid 94, Ganguly 86, Laxman 69,
Harbhajan 50, Zaheer Khan 40, Sehwag 39,
Agarkar 25, Pathan 18, Yuvraj Singh 10, Dhoni 3,
R P Singh 0. | | |
| Tour Officials | Raj Singh Dungarpur | Manager | Wing Cdr Baladitya | Assistant
Manager | Greg Chappell | Coach | Gregory King | Trainer | John Gloster | Physiotherapist | Ian Fraser | Biomechanical
expert | Ramesh Mane | Masseur | G.S. Walia | Media
Director |
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| Selectors | Kiran More (chairman), Sanjay
Jagdale, V B Chandrasekhar, Bhupinder Singh and Ranjib Biswal, with skipper Rahul Dravid and
coach Greg Chappell met in Mumbai. | | |
| Selection | Unavailable: L.
Balaji, V R V Singh and Ashish Nehra Tour Party Announced: Saturday 24 December 2005. Not
selected : Mohammad Kaif. The selectors gave former
captain Ganguly a `make or break' chance, choosing him at the expense of Kaif. One day squad : Mohammad Kaif , Murali Kartik, Suresh Raina and
Sreesanth were added to the group while Ganguly, Jaffer, Kumble, Laxman and
Patel would not be required for the one-day series. | Time between selection and departure from India 12 days (24 December - 5
January) | |
| Travel Delhi Q Lahore | After a three-hour delay, the
team left from Delhi
on Thursday evening 5 January 2006. The Indians arrived in Lahore at 10.10 pm to a warm reception at the Alama Iqbal Airport. Virender Sehwag, Anil Kumble, Sourav
Ganguly and Parthiv Patel, playing in a Ranji Trophy match to improve their
fitness, arrived on 8 January. | Time spent in Pakistan
46 days (5 January - 20 February) | |
| On-tour
selection committee | Captain Rahul Dravid, coach
Greg Chappell, one of the selectors Bhupinder Singh, and team manager Raj
Singh Dungarpur who would act as chair. | | |
| Reinforcements | Off-spinner Ramesh Powar (Mb) was added to the
one-day squad on 7 February as cover for Harbhajan Singh (finger injury). A
few days later the decision was taken that Harbhajan and Virender Sehwag
(shoulder muscle strain) should both return home early. | | |
| Fixtures/Results | a | Lahore(1) | Pakistan A (3-day) | Drawn | b | LAHORE (2) | PAKISTAN First Test | DRAWN | c | FAISALABAD | PAKISTAN Second Test | DRAWN | d | KARACHI | PAKISTAN Third Test | LOST 381 r | e | § Peshawar | Pakistan (1st ODI) | Lost 7 r | f | § Rawalpindi | Pakistan (2nd ODI) | Won 7w | g | § Lahore (2) | Pakistan (3rd ODI) | Won 5w | h | § Multan | Pakistan (4th ODI) | Won 5w | i | § Karachi | Pakistan (5th ODI) | Won 8w |
| † not first-class § one-day
international (1) Bagh-e-Jinnah (2) Gaddafi Stadium . Time spent in Pakistan
before First Test: 8 days (5 - 13 January) | |
| Test
appearances on tour | 3 - Dhoni, Dravid, Kumble, Laxman, Pathan, Sehwag, Tendulkar, Yuvraj 2 - Ganguly, Harbhajan Singh, R.P.Singh, Zaheer Khan 1 - Agarkar 0 -. Gambhir, Jaffer, Patel. | | |
| Match
appearances T Test match o one-day international x other match ∙ played for opposition W won L lost D drawn N no
result A abandoned u unknown
result | | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | A B Agarkar | x | T | | | o | o | | o | o | M S Dhoni | x | T | T | T | o | o | o | o | o | R S Dravid | x | T | T | T | o | o | o | o | o | G Gambhir | x | | | | | | o | o | o | S C Ganguly | | T | | T | | | | | | Harbhajan Singh | x | T | T | | | | | | | A Kumble | | T | T | T | | | | | | V V S Laxman | x | T | T | T | | | | | | Mohammad Kaif | | | | | o | o | o | o | o | M Kartik | | | | | o | | | | | P A Patel | | | | | | | | | | I K Pathan | x | T | T | T | o | o | o | o | | R Powar | | | | | | o | | | o | S K Raina | | | | | | o | o | o | o | R P Singh | x | | T | T | | | o | o | o | V Sehwag | | T | T | T | o | o | | | | S Sreesanth | | | | | o | | o | o | o | S R Tendulkar | x | T | T | T | o | o | o | o | | Wasim Jaffer | x | | | | | | | | | Yuvraj Singh | x | T | T | T | o | o | o | o | o | Zaheer Khan | x | | T | T | o | o | o | | o | R E S U L T S | D | D | D | L | L | W | W | W | W |
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| Highlights | • At Lahore Sehwag
recorded the second fastest double century (after Nathan Astle) in Tests
requiring only 182 balls • Harbhajan Singh was
hit for 27 in one over by Afridi (666621) at Lahore. • Sehwag (254) and
Dravid (128*) added 410 for the first wicket at Lahore • Dravid scored another
century (103) at Faisalabad
while Dhoni scored his maiden Test hundred (148) • Irfan Pathan claimed a
hat trick in the first over of the Karachi Test (Salman Butt, Younis Khan and
Mohammad Yousuf), reducing the home team to 0 for three wickets. . | | |
| Tour
Summary | | P | W | L | D | Aban | Test Matches | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | Other first-class matches | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | - | † Minor matches | 0 | - | - | - | - | § One-day internationals | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | - | All Matches | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | - |
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| Return
to India Karachi Q Mumbai | Ganguly, Jaffer, Kumble, Laxman, Patel
returned to India
after 1 Feb 2006. Harbhajan Singh (finger injury)
and Virender Sehwag (shoulder muscle) returned home early on 13 February
owing to injury. After a delay of two hours in
the flight from Karachi, seven members of the
team (Dravid, Tendulkar, Agarkar, Yuvraj, Zaheer, Powar and Pathan) arrived
at the Chhatrapati
Shivaji International
Airport, Mumbai, on
Monday morning 20 Feb 2006. Dravid and coach Greg Chappell took their
connecting flight to Bangalore M.S.Dhoni, Mohammed Kaif, R. P. Singh, Suresh Raina, Gautam Gambhir and Murali Kartik landed at
the Indira Gandhi
Airport, New Delhi. | Time away from India 46 days (5 January to 20 February) | |
| Finances | | | |
| Accounts
of the tour | | | |
| Postscript | | | |