Amitabh Choudhary was President of the Jharkhand State Cricket Association (JSCA).
Selectors
The National Selection Panel -K Srikkanth (chairman), N D Hirwani,C R Venkatraman,M B Amarnath,Surendra Bhave- met in Chennai on 13 May to pick the one-day squad and on 27 May to pick the Test squad.New coach Duncan Fletcher, interim coach Eric Simons and captain M S Dhoni attended in a non-voting capacity.
Selection
One-day squad announced : 13 May 2011
Gautam Gambhir (captain), Suresh Raina, Parthiv Patel (wk), Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, S Badrinath, Rohit Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, R Ashwin, Praveen Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Munaf Patel, Vinay Kumar, Yusuf Pathan, Amit Mishra, Wriddhiman Saha.Gambhir and Yuvraj Singh then withdrew, and were replaced by Dhawan and Tiwary.
Not considered : Sachin Tendulkar (rested - he also missed the Caribbean tour in 2005-06)
Tour Party Announced:27 May 2011
Omitted :Wriddhiman Saha, Jaidev Unadkat and Umesh Yadav, who were in the touring party to South Africa.
Withdrawn from Test squad:Zaheer Khan (right ankle), Sreesanth (right elbow).
Their replacements were Abhimanyu Mithun and Praveen Kumar (already in West Indies as part of the one-day squad)
Time between selection and departure from India
5 days
(27 May - 1 June)
Travel
Led by Suresh Raina, the Indian cricketers team flew out of Chattrapati Shivaji Airport, Mumbai, for Heathrow Airport, London, in the early hours of Wednesday 1 June.They caught a connecting trans-Atlantic flight to Bridgetown, Barbados, and landed at Piarco International Airport at 20:30 local time after a long flight (flying for close to 22 hours with about eight hours in transit) They were received by officials of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board and sponsors Digicel.
After the one-day series the Test squad was expected to leave for the West Indies on Sunday, June 12, but the departure was delayed.Dhoni along with V V S Laxman, Pragyan Ohja, Murali Vijay, Abhinav Mukund and Rahul Dravid arrived in Kingston on 16 June.
Abhimanyu Mithun did not arrive until 20 June owing to delays while his visa was arranged.
•With Zaheer Khan and Sreesanth not on tour and Munaf Patel injured, Ishant Sharma stepped up with 6-55 and 4-53 in the second Test match at Bridgetown.
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Tour Summary
P
W
L
D
Aban
Test Matches
3
1
0
2
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Other first-class matches
0
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⊕ 20/20 internationals
1
1
0
0
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§ One-day internationals
5
3
2
0
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All Matches
9
5
2
2
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Return to India
The team went from Dominica to Antigua and direct to London on 11 July. Players who were in the Test touring side for England joined up with other team members on 12 July, while Vijay, Kohli, Mithun, Badrinath, Ohja and Patel took a connecting flight to India.
Time away from India
110 days(1 June to 18 September - including the whole England tour as well