Sandeep Patil (chairman),
Vikram Rathore,Rajinder Hans,Saba
Karim, Roger Binny,
Ravi Shastri
had an influence upon the selection, too
Selection
Unavailable :
Tour Party Announced:10 November 2014.
Naman
Ojha was included only for the first Test because M S Dhoni was not available
as he would be recovering still from his right thumb injury.
Omitted :
One-day international squad
selected : Tuesday 6 January 2015.
Time between
selection and departure from India
9 days
(10 November- 22 November)
Travel
MumbaiQSingaporeQAdelaide
Departure from Mumbai was on Saturday 22 November 2014.
A liaison
officer from Cricket Australia was waiting to greet them in Adelaide
just after 9am, but the Indians’ flight from Singapore did not touch down
until 10 pm.
Time spent in Australia
x days
(22 November - February)
On-tour selection committee
-
Reinforcements
D S Kulkarni
Mb
26
RMF
On 11 DecemberDhawal
Kulkarni was called up to replace Bhuveneshwar Kumar who was out of the
Test series with an ankle injury, but remained in Australia.
A R
Patel
Gj
20
SLA
Ravindra Jadeja was ruled out of the Test series by a shoulder injury and
returned to India
for treatment. Ashkar Patel took
his place.
Ishant Sharma had to withdraw from the World Cup squad and returned home with
a knee injury.Mohit Sharma took his
place
Fixtures/Results
The tour match against a Cricket
Australia XI scheduled for 28/29 November was postponed owing to Phil
Hughes’s death until 4/5 December
Ravi
Jadeja returned to India
with an injured shoulder on 23 December.
The
one-day team landed home at Mumbai airport
Time away from India
x days
(22 November to February)
Finances
Accounts
of the tour
Postscript
Other
Test tours in 2014-15
Australians in UAE to play Pakistan 2014-15 - captain Michael
Clarke
England in West Indies 2014-15 - captain Alastair Cook
New Zealanders in UAE to play Pakistan 2014-15 - captain Brendon
McCullum
Sri Lankans in New Zealand 2014-15 - captain Angelo Mathews
West Indians in India 2014-15 - captain Denesh Ramdin
West Indians in South Africa 2014-15 - captain Denesh Ramdin
Zimbabweans in Bangladesh 2014-15 - captain Brendan Taylor
Acknowledgements
To
general reading of The Times newspaper
digital archive (Gale Group);Jamaica
Gleanor archive;National Library of
Australia Trove; Papers Past NZ.
From
former British Newspaper Library, Colindale and online:The Age, Melbourne Argus, Bangladesh Daily
Star, Barbados Advocate, Canberra Times, Daily Telegraph, Dawn, Eastern Daily
Press, The Hindu, The Independent (Dhaka), Indian Express, The Island
(Lanka), Lahore Times, New Nation, New Zealand Auckland Herald, Sri Lanka
Daily News, Stabroek News, Straits Times, Sydney Morning Herald, The
Telegraph (Calcutta), Times of India (Bombay) , The Tribune (Chandigarh),
Trinidad Guardian, The West Australian.
Magazines/periodicals
including Australian Cricket, B & H West Indies Annual, The Cricketer
International, Cricketer Quarterly, Indian Cricket, Indian Cricket Field
Annual, Playfair Cricket Monthly, Shell Cricket Almanack of New Zealand,
Wisden Cricket Monthly, Wisden Book of Test Cricket, Wisden’s Cricketers’
Almanack.
Men In
White, A History of Australian Cricket (Harte), A History of Indian Cricket
(Bose), A History of West Indies Cricket
(Manley)
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