Tour of West Indies 2005-06            Captain: Rahul Dravid
	India's 55th Test tour   Tenth Test-playing tour of West Indies by India      (May - July 2006)	India lost 1-4 in the one-dayers but came back strongly, almost winning the first two Test matches. A seven-day break between the second and third Tests helped the bowlers in particular to recuperate. However, Sreesanth and Munaf Patel were unable in future years to sustain the performances they achieved in this series. The Indians became only the second team, after Ajit Wadekar’s side in 1971, to win a series in the Caribbean by winning the fourth and final Test match at Kingston by 49 runs. They were also the first Indian touring side to win a major Test series outside the sub-continent since 1986 when England were beaten 2-0.	Other Indian tours   Previous tour Pakistan 2005-06   Next tour South Africa 2006-07     Next West Indies tour 2011
	Members of the Test tour  party (16)       Opening batsmen: : Virender Sehwag, Wasim Jaffer. Middle-order batsmen: Rahul Dravid, Mohammad Kaif, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, V V S Laxman. Wicket-keepers: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Dinesh Kharthik Spinners: Harbhajan Singh, Anil Kumble, Ramesh Powar Fast bowlers: Munaf Patel, Irfan Pathan, Vikram Singh, Sreesanth.	M S Dhoni Jk 24 RHB    WK ODI   R S Dravid K 33 RHB    captain ODI   Harbhajan Singh Pj 25 OB ODI   Mohammad Kaif UP 25 RHB ODI   K K D Kharthik TN 21 reserve WK     A Kumble K 35 LBG     V V S Laxman Hd 31 RHB     M M Patel Mb 22 RFM ODI   I K Pathan Ba 21 LFM ODI   R R Powar Mb 28 OB ODI   S K Raina UP 19 LHB   OB ODI   V Sehwag D 27 RHB  opener   (OB)  vice-captain ODI   V R V Singh Pj 21 RFM     S Sreesanth Ke 23 RFM ODI           Wasim Jaffer Mb 28 RHB  opener     Yuvraj Singh Pj 24 LHB   (SLA) ODI         A B Agarkar(Mb) ODI       R P Singh (UP) ODI       R V Uthappa (K) ODI       Y Venugopal Rao (AP) ODI	Representation of teams:     Ba - Baroda (1) D - Delhi (1) H - Hyderabad (1) Jk -  Jharkhand (1) K - Karnataka (2) Ke - Kerala (1) Mb - Mumbai (3) Pj - Punjab (3) TN  - Tamil Nadu (1) UP  - Uttar Pradesh (2)             Average age of  team at time of first Test match (2 June 2006) :   25 yrs  10 months
	Test Appearances made before the tour	Kumble 106,  Dravid 100, Laxman 73,  Harbhajan 55,  Sehwag 45,  Pathan 24,  Yuvraj 15,  Jaffer 10,  Dhoni 9,  Kaif 9,  Kharthik 9,  Patel 2,  Sreesanth 2,  Powar 0,  Raina 0,  V R V Singh 0.
	Team Officials	Ravi Sawant Test team manager Ranjib Biswal ODI Team Manager Greg Chappell Coach Ian Fraser Sports Scientist Gregory King Fitness trainer S Ramakrishnan Computer Analyst   The managers were appointed on 29 April. Ranjib Biswal from Orissa, the national selector from East Zone, was in charge for the one-day series after which Dayanand Dongaonkar was appointed to take charge during the Test series. However, on 23 May it was announced that Professor Dongaonkar, Secretary-general of the Association of Indian Universities, had expressed his inability to go, so assistant manager Ravi Sawant replaced him.  Sawant was a vice-president of the Mumbai Cricket Association.  India also engaged the services of sports psychologist Dr. Rudi Webster for a week while in the region.
	Selectors	Kiran More (chairman), Sanjay Jagdale, V. B. Chandrasekhar, Bhupinder Singh and Ranjib Biswal, with skipper Rahul Dravid and coach Greg Chappell.
	Selection	Unavailable: S R Tendulkar (shoulder).  He had a ftness test for the Test series on 10 May but was not fit. One-day squad announced: 20 April 2006. Test squad announced:  24 May after the 3rd one-dayer.  Not selected:   Sourav Ganguly (whom Greg Chappell described as a “disruptive influence” in an e-mail to the Indian cricket board);  Ajit Agarkar,  Rudra Pradeep Singh,  Robin Uthappa and  Venugopal Rao.	Time between selection and team departure from India    22 days  (20 April - 12 May).  Test team announced 12 days after arrival in South Africa
	Travel	The Indian team left for West Indies late at night on 12 May 2006.   After a 9-hour long BA flight from Mumbai to London Heathrow, they spent five hours in transit, then flew for nine more hours from Gatwick to Norman Manley Airport, Jamaica.  Arrived on Sunday 14 May.   Five players - Dinesh Karthik, Anil Kumble, VVS Laxman, VRV Singh and Wasim Jaffer - flew in to Antigua, by way of Norman Manley Airport, Kingston, on Monday 28 May for the Test series.	Time spent in West Indies      52 days (14 May - 5 July)
	On-tour selection committee	Rahul Dravid  (captain),  Greg Chappell  (coach),  Virender Sehwag (vice-captain)
	Reinforcements	None
	Fixtures/Results	† Montego Bay Jamaica Won 116 r § Kingston West Indies (1st ODI) Won 5w § Kingston West Indies (2nd ODI) Lost 1 r § Basseterre West Indies (3rd ODI) Lost 4 w § Port-of-Spain West Indies (4th ODI) Lost 6 w § Port-of-Spain West Indies (5th ODI) Lost 19 r † St John's Antigua & Barbuda Drawn ST JOHN'S WEST INDIES First Test DRAWN GROS ISLET, St Lucia WEST INDIES  Second Test DRAWN BASSETERRE, St Kitts WEST INDIES  Third Test DRAWN KINGSTON WEST INDIES  Fourth Test WON 49 r	ϯ not first-class § one-day internationals       Time spent in West Indies before First Test:  19 days (14 May - 2 June)
	Test appearances on tour	4 -   Dhoni,  Dravid,  Jaffer,  Kaif,  Kumble,  Laxman,  M.Patel,  Sehwag,  Yuvrav Singh. 3 -   Sreesanth. 2 -   Harbhajan,  V R V Singh. 1 -   Pathan. 0 -   Karthik,  Powar,  Raina.
	Highlights	•    Wasim Jaffer made a double century (212) opening the batting in the first Test at St John’s. •    Three Indians scored a century in the 2nd Test: Sehwag (180), Dravid (146) and Kaif (148*) as India scored        588-8 declared.  •    Harbhajan had taken 44 overs for his 5-147 at Basseterre, but captured 5 more wickets in 27 balls at Kingston •    Rahul Dravid brought up 9000 Test runs at Kingston in his 176th innings, fewer than anyone before. •    Dravid was the batsman of the series with 496 runs in the four Tests including a century and four fifties. •    At the end of the third day at Kingston, Kumble took his sixth wicket of the innings to win the 4th Test.
	Tour Summary	P W L D Aban Test Matches   4 1 0 3 - Other first-class matches   0 - - - - ϯ Minor matches   2 1 0 1 - § One-day internationals   5 1 4 0 - All Matches 11 3 4 4 -
	Return to India	Their final Test win left the Indian players with two days in Kingston, with nothing to do except wait for their departure back home. Some players, including Anil Kumble and VVS Laxman, were fortunate enough to get seats to London on 3 July, and Greg Chappell went off to the USA on 4 July to see his newborn grandchild, but most had to wait until 5 July for the next available BA flight to London.	Time away from India   56 days   (12 May to July)
	Finances

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