Tour of India 2005-06                    Captain : Michael Vaughan         

England’s 91st Test tour

(February - April 2006)

Fourteenth Test playing tour to India by England

  (previous tour  2001-02)

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Other England tours

Previous Test tour

Pakistan 2005-06

Next Test tour

Australia 2006-07

Next tour of India

2008-09

Members of the Test tour party (16)

Opening batsmen:  Marcus Trescothick replaced by Alastair Cook, Andrew Strauss

Middle-order batsmen Ian Bell, Paul Collingwood, Kevin Pietersen, Michael Vaughan.

Wicket-keeper:Geraint Jones, Matt Prior.

All-rounder:  Andrew Flintoff

Slow bowlers:Ian Blackwell, Monty Panesar, Shaun Udal

Fast bowlers:Steve Harmison, Simon Jones, Matthew Hoggard, Liam Plunkett.

County representation:

Du - Durham (3)

Gm - Glamorgan (1)

Ha - Hampshire (2)

Kt  -  Kent (1)

La - Lancashire (1)

Mx - Middlesex (1)

Nth - Northamptonshire (1)

Sm - Somerset (2)

Sx - Sussex (1)

Wk - Warwickshire (1)

Yo - Yorkshire (2)

Average age of  team at time of first Test match

(1 March 2006):

    27 yrs  2 months.

Test Appearances made before the tour

Trescothick 72,  Vaughan 64,  Flintoff 56,  Hoggard 48,  Harmison 39,  GO Jones 23,  Strauss 21,  SP Jones 18,  Anderson 12,  Bell 11,  Pietersen 8,  Collingwood 5,  Udal 3,  Plunkett 1,  Blackwell 0,  Cook 0,  Panesar 0,  Prior 0,  Shah 0.

Tour Officials

Selectors

David Graveney (chairman), Duncan Fletcher (coach), Geoff Miller and  Michael Vaughan (captain).

Selection

Not considered: Chris Tremlett was recovering from surgery to his right knee.  Darren Gough said he was unavailable for the tour of Pakistan and he was regarded as unavailable for this tour, too

Tour Party Announced  : 12 January 2006.

Not selected:  James Anderson and Alex Loudon.

Withdrawn:   Ashley Giles withdrew before the tour after failing to recover from back surgery and was replaced by Ian Blackwell.

One-day team announced: 

ODI replacements announced : 11 March 2006.

Time between selection and departure from England

   31 days

 (12 January - 12 February)

Travel

London    Q   Mumbai

Flew in to Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai,  on  Monday 13 February.

For the one-day series  Kabir Ali,  Gareth Batty,  Sajid Mahmood,  Vikram Solanki joined the team; while  Alastair Cook,  Steve Harmison,  Monty Panesar and  Shaun Udal returned home.

Time spent in India

    62 days

(13 February  -  16 April)

On-tour selection panel

Reinforcements

Marcus Trescothick left the tour for personal reasons on 25 February.

Coach Matthew Maynard had to field as substitute at Vadorada as the only person available.

Alastair Cook and James Anderson were flown to India from England’s A tour, arriving in Nagpur on 26 February as cover for Michael Vaughan and Simon Jones who eventually left the tour, both because of knee injuries. Andrew Flintoff took over from Vaughan as captain

After Marcus Trescothick had gone home Owais Shah was called into the squad as cover on 26 February because Collingwood and Pietersen were suffering from back strains

Gareth Batty, Sajid Mahmood, Owais Shah and Vikram Solanki were added to the one-day side because Trescothick, Vaughan, Simon Jones and Ashley Giles from the original squad of sixteen were now not available

Andrew Flintoff was rested  and Andrew Strauss led the side in the last two ODIs.

Fixtures/Results

BS Brabourne Stadium

WS   Wankhede Stadium.

† not first-class

§  one-day international

Time spent in India before First Test:  

 16 days

(13 February - 1 March)

Test appearances on tour

3 -   Bell,  Collingwood,  Flintoff,  Hoggard,  GO Jones,  Panesar,  Pietersen,  Strauss.

2 -   Cook,  Harmison

1 -   Anderson,  Blackwell,  Plunkett,  Shah,  Udal.

0 -   Prior.

Match appearances

T  Test match

o  one-day international 

x other match 

⊕ T/20 international

 W won  L lost  D drawn

N no result   A abandoned

u unknown result

All 16 tourists appeared in the first match, and 12 in the match against Rajasthan

Strauss was captain in the last two ODIs.

Highlights

•   Paul Collingwood (134*) scored a century in the opening Test match

•   Matthew Hoggard took 6 for 57

•   Alastair Cook scored 60 and 104 not out on his Test debut in the first Test

•   Andrew Flintoff scored 70 & 51  in the second Test at Chandigarh, and 50 & 50 in the third at Mumbai.

•   Andrew Strauss (128)

•   Owais Shah scored 88 on his Test debut

Tour Summary

F  Fixtures   W  Won   L  Lost   D Drawn   T  Tied  Canc  Cancelled  Aban  abandoned

Return to England

Mumbai  Q  London

Trescothick,  Vaughan and Simon Jones returned home early.

Cook, Harmison, Panesar and Udal returned home at the end of the Test series.

Duncan Fletcher temporarily left England's tour to be with his sick wife.

The one-day team arrived home on approx 17 April.

Time away from England

  63 days  

(13 February -  17 April)

Finances

Accounts of the tour

Postcript

Other Test tours in 2005-06

Australians to South Africa  & Bangladesh 2005-06  -  captain Ricky Ponting

England to Pakistan 2005-06  -  captain Michael Vaughan

Indians to Pakistan 2005-06  -  captain Rahul Dravid

New Zealanders to South Africa 2005-06  -  captain Stephen Fleming

Pakistanis to Sri Lanka 2005-06  -  captain Inzamamul Haq

South Africans to Australia 2005-06  -  captain Graeme Smith

Sri Lankans to India 2005-06  -  captain Marvan Atapattu

Sri Lankans to Bangladesh 2005-06  -  captain Mahela Jayawardene

West Indians to Australia 2005-06  -  captain Shiv Chanderpaul

West Indians to New Zealand 2005-06  -  captain Shiv Chanderpaul