Test Cricket Tour India to England 2014

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Tour of England 2014 Captain: M S Dhoni

India's seventieth Test tour

(June - August 2014)

17th Test-playing tour of England by India

(previous tour 2011)

The 2014 tour was the first time that India had played a five-Test series in England since 1959

Other Indian tours

Previous tour

New Zealand 2013-14

Next tour

to Australia 2014-15

Next tour of England

2018, not yet confirmed

Members of the Test tour party (18)

Opening batsmen: Gautam Gambhir, Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan

Middle-order: Virat Kohli, Ajinkhya Rahane, Cheteshwar Pujara, Rohit Sharma,

Wicket-keepers:Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Wriddhiman Saha

All rounder: Stuart Binny

Spinners: Ravi Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja,

Fast bowlers: Ishant Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammad Shami, Varun Aaron, Pankaj Singh, Ishwar Pandey.

V R Aaron	Jk	24		RFM

R Ashwin	TN	27		RHB OB	ODI T20

S T R Binny	K	30		RHB RFM	ODI T20

S Dhawan	D	28		LHB opener	ODI T20

M S Dhoni	Jk	33		RHB WK captain	ODI T20

G Gambhir	D	29		LHB opener vice-captain

R A Jadeja	Sa	25		LHB SLA	ODI T20

V Kohli	D	25		RHB ODI vice-captain	ODI T20

B Kumar	UP	24		RFM	ODI T20

Mohammad Shami	Bn	23		RFM	ODI T20

I C Pandey	MP	24		RM

Pankaj Singh	Rj	29		RFM

C Pujara	Sa	26		RHB

A M Rahane	Mb	25		RHB	ODI T20

W P Saha	Bn	29		WK

I Sharma	D	22	RFM

R G Sharma	Mb	27		RHB (OB)	ODI T20

M Vijay	TN	30		RHB opener


Required for ODI /T20 series:				D S Kulkarni (Mb) RM	ODI T20
				S K Raina(UP) LHB	ODI T20
				A T Rayudu(Mb) RHB	ODI T20
				S V Samson (Kerala) WK/RHB	ODI T20
				K V Sharma (UP) LB	ODI T20
				Mohit Sharma(D) LHB	ODI T20
				U T Yadav (Vidarbha) RFM	ODI T20

Zonal representation of teams

Central 1, East 4, North 4, South 3, West 6.

Ranji Trophy teams:

Bn - Bengal (2)

D - Delhi (4)

Jk - Jharkhand (2)

K - Karnataka (1)

MP - Madhya Pradesh (1)

Mb - Mumbai (2)

Rj - Rajasthan (1)

Sa - Saurashtra (2)

TN - Tamil Nadu (2)

UP - Uttar Pradesh (1)

* several of the players did not appear in the Ranji Trophy matches in 2013-14.

Average age of team at time of first Test match

( 9 July 2014) :

27 yrs 2 months

ODI member of one-day international squad

T20 member of the T20 squad

Test Appearances made before the tour

Dhoni 83, I Sharma 55, Gambhir 54, Kohli 24, Vijay 22, Ashwin 19, Pujara 18, Jadeja 8, Dhawan 7, Kumar 6, Shami 6, R Sharma 6, Rahane 5, Saha 2, Aaron 1, Binny 0, Pandey 0, Pankaj Singh 0.

Tour Officials

Sunil Dev	Manager
Duncan Fletcher	Head coach
Rahul Dravid	Consultant
Joe Dawes	Bowling coach
Trevor Penney	Fielding coach
Evan Speechly	Physiotherapist
Ramji Srinivasan	Fitness trainer
Ramesh Mane	Masseur
	Computer analyst
	Media director

Sunil Dev was secretary of the Delhi and Districts Cricket Association, He was previously manager on the 1996-97 tour of South Africa.

On coach Duncan Fletcher’s request, Rahul Dravid was appointed as a consultant.

After the Oval Test match the BCCI changed the coaching staff. Penney and Dawes were “given a break”.

Ravi Shastri	Team Director
Duncan Fletcher	Head coach
Sanjay Bangar	Assistant coach
Bharat Arun	Bowling coach
Ramakrishnan Sridhar	Fielding coach

India A coach (and former interim national coach) Lalchand Rajput expressed disappointment that he was not included in the changes to the coaching staff

Selectors

Sandeep Patil (chairman), Vikram Rathore, Rajinder Hans, Saba Karim, Roger Binny,

Selection

Unavailable : Amit Mishra (treatment for a back injury)

Tour Party Announced: 28 May 2014

Omitted : Virender Sehwag and Zaheer Khan appeared to have come to the end of their Test careers.

In the window between the end of the 2014 Indian Premier League and the England tour, the team had to play three ODIs in Bangladesh agreed in a future tours programme planning meeting in April.

Limited-overs party announced: 4 August 2014.

Time between selection and departure from India

24 days

(28 May - 21 June)

Travel

Mumbai Q London

The players returned from a one-day series in Bangladesh only a day before departing for England. A press conference took place before the Test side’s departure on Saturday 21 June. The players were allowed to wear casual clothes on the long flight rather than their traditional blazers.

They landed in London on Sunday 22 June 2014.

After the Test series new coaches Bharat Arun and R. Sridhar arrived on Thursday 22 August and Ravi Shastri and Sanjay Bangar the next day.

Time spent in England

78 days

(22 June - 8 September)

On-tour selection committee

Reinforcements

Naman V Ojha

M P

WK (RHB)

ODI

Wriddhiman Saha was withdrawn from the tour after the second Test with an unspecified injury, and Ojha replaced him.

Fixtures/Results

a	ϯ Leicester	Leicestershire (3-day)	Drawn
b	ϯ Derby	Derbyshire (3-day)	Won 5 w
c	TRENT BRIDGE	ENGLAND First Test	DRAWN
d	LORD’S	ENGLAND Second Test	WON 95 r
e	SOUTHAMPTON	ENGLAND Third Test	LOST 266 r
f	OLD TRAFFORD	ENGLAND Fourth Test	LOST inns 54 r
g	KENNINGTON OVAL	ENGLAND Fifth Test	LOST inns 244 r
h	ϯ Lord’s	Middlesex (50 overs)	Won 95 r
i	§ Bristol	England (1st ODI)	Abandoned
j	§ Cardiff	England (2nd ODI)	Won 133 r
k	§ Trent Bridge	England (3rd ODI)	Won 6 w
l	§ Edgbaston	England (4th ODI)	Won 9 w
m	§ Headingley	England (5th ODI)	Lost 41 r
n	⊕ Edgbaston	England (T20)	Lost 3 r

† not first-class

§ ODI

⊕ T20 international

Time spent in England before First Test:

17 days

(22 June- 9 July 2014)

Test appearances on tour

5 - Dhoni, Kohli, Kumar, Pujara, Rahane, Vijay.

4 -

1 - Binny, Dhawan, Jadeja, M’d Shami, I Sharma,

0 - R Sharma, Saha , Aaron, Ashwin, Gambhir, Ojha, Pandey, Pankaj Singh.

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

V R Aaron

R Ashwin

S T R Binny

S Dhawan

M S Dhoni

G Gambhir

R A Jadeja

V Kohli

B Kumar

Mohd Shami

N V Ohja (w/k)

I C Pandey

Pankaj Singh

C Pujara

A M Rahane

W P Saha

I Sharma

R G Sharma

M Vijay

D S Kulkarni

S K Raina

A T Rayudu

S V Samson

K V Sharma

Mohit Sharma

U T Yadav

R E S U L T S

Highlights

• On a dead batting pitch at Trent Bridge fast-medium Bhuvneshwar Kumar took 5 for 82.

• After Murali Vijay scored 146, Kumar and Mohammad Shami then shared a last wicket partnership of 111.

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Tour Summary

	P	W	L	D	Aban
Test Matches	5	1	3	1	-
Other first-class matches	0	-	-	-	-
† Minor matches	3	2	1	0	-
§ One-day internationals	5	3	1	0	1
⊕ 20/20 internationals	1	0	1	0	-
All Matches	14	6	6	1	1

Return to India

Mumbai Q London

Test players Ishant Sharma, Murali Vijay, Pankaj Singh, Varun Aaron, Gautam Gambhir, Ishwar Pandey and Naman Ojha returned to India as soon as the Oval Test concluded.

The tour ended with a Twenty20 match at Edgbaston and the limited-overs squad then returned to London, arriving in India on Tuesday 9 September.

Cheteshwar Pujara remained in England to play county matches for Derbyshire

Time away from India

80 days

(21 June-9 September)

Finances

Accounts of the tour

Postscript

On 11 October Trevor Penney and Joe Dawes agreed to have their contracts, which were to run until the end of the 2015 tour of Australia and World Cup, terminated