English cricket team in India in 2005-06
| English cricket team in India in 2005-06 | |||
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| England | India | ||
| Dates | 18 February – 15 April 2006 | ||
| Captains | Andrew Flintoff | Rahul Dravid | |
| Test series | |||
| Result | 3-match series drawn 1–1 | ||
| Most runs | Paul Collingwood (272) | Rahul Dravid (309) | |
| Most wickets | Matthew Hoggard (13) | Anil Kumble (16) | |
| Player of the series | Andrew Flintoff | ||
| One Day International series | |||
| Results | India won the 7-match series 5–1 | ||
| Most runs | Kevin Pietersen (291) | Suresh Raina (242) | |
| Most wickets | James Anderson (9) | Harbhajan Singh (12) | |
| Player of the series | Yuvraj Singh | ||
The English cricket team toured India during February, March and April 2006. The English cricket team was aspiring to maintain the form that took them to second place in the ICC Test Championship before their disastrous spell against Pakistan, and which helped win the 2005 Ashes series at home to Australia. This goal was substantially hindered by the usual stomach complaints which nearly always dog the English team in the opening weeks of Indian tours, and a recurrence of an injury to the captain Michael Vaughan; the swing bowler Simon Jones and the absence of Ashley Giles who missed the tour for an operation. As well as this, stand-in captain Marcus Trescothick flew home for "personal reasons", not wishing to divulge further, leaving Andrew Flintoff, who missed the birth of his son, to take on the title of skipper for the first time having to captain two maiden international cricketers on the English side: Alastair Cook and Monty Panesar as well as Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, Piyush Chawla and Munaf Patel for the home team.
India started the series looking to climb up to the second place spot in the ICC Test Championship which England recently pushed them out of.
Three Test matches and seven One Day Internationals were planned. One ODI (in Guwahati) was washed out because of rains. The Test series was drawn 1-1 while India won the ODI series 5-1.
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