Test Cricket Tours - India to England 2002

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Tour of England 2002 Captain: Saurav Ganguly

48th Indian Test tour

14th Test-playing tour of England by India

(June -

September 2002)

India won the NatWest Trophy triangular one-day series at Lord's by beating England, thanks to a spectacular run-chase headed by 87* from Man of the Match, Mohammad Kaif.

The tourists then played their first four-Test series against England since 1979.

England won the first Test comprehensively but India through Dravid (115), Tendulkar (92) and Ganguly (99) saved the second Test match and then dominated the third Test at Headingley. After Indis’a marvellous middle-order of Dravid, Tendulkar and Ganguly had again each scored centuries in India's massive innings total of 628 - 8 declared, the spinners Kumble and Harbhajan Singh steadily dismissed England. Forced to follow on, England topped 300 but again the spinners took wickets and saw India to victory. The final match at The Oval was a high-scoring draw leaving the series tied and honours even.

Other Indian tours

Previous tour

West Indies 2001-02

Next tour

New Zealand 2002-03

Next England tour

2007

Members of the Test tour party (16)

Opening batsmen: Shiv Sundur Das, Virender Sehwag, Wasim Jaffer

Middle-order batsmen: Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman,

All-rounder: Sanjay Bangar

Wicket-keepers: Partiv Patel, Ajay Ratra

Spinners: Harbhajan Singh, Anil Kumble

Fast bowlers: Ajit Agarkar, Ashish Nehra, Tinu Yohannan, Zaheer Khan

A B Agarkar	Mb	24	RHB RFM	ODI
S B Bangar	Rly	30	RHB opener RFM
S S Das	Os	24	RHB
R S Dravid	K	29	RHB vice-captain	ODI
S C Ganguly	Bn	30	LHB captain	ODI
Harbhajan Singh	Pj	22	OB	ODI
A Kumble	K	31	LBG	ODI
V V S Laxman	Hd	27	RHB	ODI
A Nehra	D	23	LFM	ODI
P A Patel	Gj	17	reserve WK
A Ratra	Hy	20	WK	ODI
V Sehwag	D	23	RHB opener	ODI
S R Tendulkar	Mb	29	RHB	ODI
Wasim Jaffer	Mb	24	RHB opener
T Yohannan	Ke	23	RFM	ODI
Zaheer Khan	Ba	23	LFM	ODI
Joined the tour party for the			Mohammad Kaif (UP)	ODI
one-day internationals			D Mongia (Pj)	ODI
			Yuvraj Singh (Pj)	ODI

Representation of teams:

Ba - Baroda (1)

Bn - Bengal (1)

D - Delhi (2)

Gj - Gujarat (1)

Hd - Hyderabad (1)

Hy - Haryana (1)

K - Karnataka (2)

Ke - Kerala (1)

Mb - Mumbai (3)

Os - Orissa (1)

Pj - Punjab (1)

Rly - Railways (1)

Average age of team at time of first Test match (25 July 2002) :

25 yrs 5 months

ODI - member of squad for National Westminster Bank Triangular 2002

Test Appearances made before the tour

Tendulkar 96, Kumble 70, Dravid 60, Ganguly 58, Laxman 35, Harbhajan 25, Das 23, Zaheer 16, Agarkar 11, Nehra 8, Bangar 5, Jaffer 5, Sehwag 5, Ratra 4, Yohannan 2, Patel 0.

Team Officials

M Ranga Reddy	Senior Team Manager
Rajeev Shukla	BCCI Tour Manager
John Wright	Coach
Amrit Mathur	Communications Manager
Andrew Leipus	Physiotherapist

Rajeev Shukla from UP was a member of Rajya Sabha - the upper house of the Indian parliament. Ranga Reddy was President of Hyderabad Cricket Association.

Selectors

Chandu Borde (West - Chairman), Madan Lal (North), Sanjay Jagdale (Central), Ashok Malhotra (East), Shivlal Yadav (South).

Selection

On Tuesday 4 June the selectors chose to retain Ganguly as captain on the tour of England

The meeting on 8 June was shifted from Mumbai to Kolkata to allow Board president Jagmohan Dalmiya to hold a discussion with the selectors before their 3-hour meeting to choose the team.

Unavailable: Srinath announced his retirement from Test cricket

Tour Party Announced : 8 June 2002

Not selected : Gautam Gambhir, Murali Kartik.

The Test and ODI squads were picked at the same time to avoid later having to confer by video-conference with selectors who would be in England.

After the one-day series, Dinesh Mongia, Mohammed Kaif and Yuvraj Singh would return to India, being replaced by openers Shiv Sundar Das, Wasim Jaffer, allrounder Sanjay Bangar and wicket-keeper Partiv Patel.

The selectors held an emergency meeting in Kolkata on 16 July to decide that Mohammed Kaif and Yuvraj Singh would stay back with the India squad for the Test series against England - but Yuvraj had a broken little finger which would keep him out of action for at least three weeks, so he returned to India,

Time between selection and departure from India

10 days

(8 June - 18 June)

Travel

Ganguly, through taking a late flight from Kolkata to Mumbai, again missed the Monday pre-tour press conference and left it to his vice-captain Rahul Dravid.

The team departed from Mumbai on Tuesday morning 18 June 2002 and was received at London Airport by Air India’s Regional Director, Mr Sharma.

Test squad members Bangar, Das, Patel and Wasim Jaffer joined the team the day before the one-day tournament final

Time spent in England

94 days

(18 June - 10 September)

On-tour selection committee

Wright (coach), Ganguly (captain), Dravid (vice-captain), Tendulkar (senior player), Ranga Reddy (team manager)

Reinforcements

Mohammad Kaif and Dinesh Mongia, although not in the original Test squad, remained with the touring party after the ODI series as cover for injuries. They played in only the first first-class match at Arundel but were granted permission to play for English county Leicestershire, as did Srinath.

The tour selectors also wanted an additional seamer, preferably L. Balaji, to support the four fast bowlers already in the group but this was not granted

Fixtures/Results

“ Hove	Sussex	Won 3 w
“ Canterbury	Kent	Lost 21 r
“ Leicester	Leicestershire	Won 54 r
§ Lord's	England (1st ODI)	Won 6 w
§ Kennington Oval	Sri Lanka (2nd ODI)	Won 4 w
§ Chester-le-Street	England (3rd ODI)	No result
§ Edgbaston	Sri Lanka (4th OD)I	Won 4 w
§ Kennington Oval	England (5th ODI)	Lost 64 r
§ Bristol	Sri Lanka (6th ODI)	Won 63 r
§ Lord's	England (ODI Final)	Won 2 w
Arundel	West Indies A	Drawn
Southampton	Hampshire	Won 66 r
LORD'S	ENGLAND First Test	LOST 170 r
Worcester	Worcestershire	Drawn
TRENT BRIDGE	ENGLAND Second Test	DRAWN
Chelmsford	Essex	Drawn
HEADINGLEY	ENGLAND Third Test	WON inns 46 r
Derby	Derbyshire	Drawn
KENNINGTON OVAL	ENGLAND Fourth Test	DRAWN

“ not first-class

§ one day internationals

Time spent in England before First Test:

37 days

(18 June - 25 July)

Test appearances on tour

4 - Agarkar, Dravid, Ganguly, Laxman, Sehwag, Tendulkar, Zaheer Khan.

3 - Harbhajan Singh, Kumble.

2 - Bangar, Jaffer, Nehra, Patel, Ratra.

0 - Das, Yohannan.

Highlights

- Agarkar, batting at number 8, scored 109 not out in a losing cause in the first Test at Lord's

- Dravid (115), Tendulkar 92) and Ganguly (99) brought India a draw in the second Test. At Headingley each scored a century as India amassed an innings of 628-8 d to win at Headingley

- Parthiv Patel, at 17 years and 158 days, became the youngest-ever wicket-keeper to play in a Test match

- Kumble took 3-93 and 4-66 at Headingley to help dismiss England twice and India to win by an innings and 46 runs at Headingley, their largest Test victory overseas.

- In the Oval Test Dravid scored 217, his third century of the series, bringing his aggregate to 602 runs.

Tour Summary

	P	W	L	D
Test Matches	4	1	1	2
Other first-class matches	5	1	0	4
“ Minor matches	3	2	1	0
§One-day internationals	7	5	1	1
All Matches	19	9	3	7

Return to India

The three ODI players were due to return on Tuesday 16 July but the injured Yuvraj Singh alone went home after the one-day series, and he arrived in Mumbai on 18 July.

The Indian Test squad left London on 10 September 2002 and landed at Chatrapati Shivaji Airport in Mumbai on Wednesday morning en route to the Champions Trophy in Sri Lanka. They reached Colombo on 12 September.

Time away from India

94 days (8 June to 11 September)