England Team, Squad for Two Test Series aginst India

England is resumunig their tour of India for two test series after they returned home in between due to Mumbai Terror attack. England team is currently in Abu Dhabi for practice and only come to India on Sunday, 7th ecember, 2008 after security clearance from their security advisor Reg Dickason, who is currently in India.

England board selected 10 extra standby players if any of the 14 main player will refuse to go to India.

England Test Squad, Team for Test Series against India:

Kevin Pietersen (Captain)
Tim Ambrose (WK)
Ian Bell
Alastair Cook
Paul Collingwood
Andrew Flintoff
Owais Shah
Andrew Strauss
Matt Prior (WK)
James Anderson
Stuart Broad
Steve Harmison
Monty Panesar
Graeme Swann

Standby Players:

Ravi Bopara
Mark Davies
Robbie Joseph
Amjad Khan
Sajid Mahmood
Samit Patel
Liam Plunkett
Adil Rashid
Ollie Rayner
Alan Richardson

Indian Squad, Team for Two Test Series against England - Yuraj in

Indian selectors announced the team for the two test matche series against touring England on Thursday, 4th December, 2008. England returned to home after terrorist attack in Mumbai last week and hopefully they will be back to complete the series starting from 11th December, 2008 to 23rd December, 2008.

Inform batsman Yuraj Singh included in the team as the replacement for the retired Saurav Ganguly.

Indian Team/Squad for Two Test Series against England:

Virender Sehwag
Gautam Gambhir
Rahul Dravid
Sachin Tendulkar
VVS Laxman
Yuvraj Singh
M Vijay
S Badrinath
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt, wk)
Harbhajan Singh
Zaheer Khan
Ishant Sharma
Amit Mishra
Munaf Patel
Pragyan Ojha

Ind vs Eng 5th ODI Result - India won by 6 wick and 5 in a row

India beat England easily by 6 wickets in the 5th ODI at on Wednesday, 26th November, 2008. India won the toss and invited England to bat first in the day-night game. England scored 270 in 50 overs but India chased easily with 38 balls remaining.

England shown their best batting performance of the series, scored 270 runs in 50 overs thanks to Kavin Pietersen's century, scored 111 unbeaten runs off 128 balls with 10 fours and 1 six well supported by Collingwood and Owais Shah 40 and 66 not out runs respectively.

India started brilliantly wit an opening partnership of 136 runs between Sehwag and Tendulkar, scored 91 off just 73 balls with 15 fours and 1 six and 50 runs respectively. But 2 wickets in 2 balls put England back in the game but 94 runs partnership between Dhoni and Raina, scored 50 and 53 runs respectively take India home for the 5-0 lead in the 7 match series.

Match Summary:

England - 270/4 in 50 overs.

India - 273/4 in 43.4 overs.

Toss - India, who chose to field first.

Result - India won by 6 wickets (with 38 balls remaining).

Man of The Match - Virendar Sehwag (India).

Series - India led the 7-match series 5-0.

Ind vs Eng 5th ODI Preview at Cuttack - Day-Night

India already won the seven match series by 4-0 and 3 matches to go and Indians are planning for a complete wash out when they meet England for the 5th ODI on Wednesday, 26th November, 2008 at Barabati Stadium, Cuttack. 5th ODI will be a Day-Night game and start from 2.30 PM IST.

India is planning to rest some of the key players and give chance some reseve players as they alredy win the series. Irfan Pathan, Pragyan Ojha, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma may get a chance to play for India.

England is under lot of pressure specially after the won 4-0 against South Africa last month and here they are in danger of losing 7-0.

Ind vs Eng 4th ODI Result - India won by 19 Runs and Series by 4-0

In a thrilling shortened 5th ODI between India beat England by 40 runs in a day-night game at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore on Sunday, 23rd November, 2008. Match shortened to 22 overs due to rain India made 166/4 in alloted overs and set a target of 198 runs in 22 overs for England as per rules.

India after invited to bat first started well by Tendulkar and Sehwag. Tendulkar went early and after lot of rains in the middle and cut of overs Sehwag played brilliantly with Gambhir scored 79 runs contributed 69 runs and 40 runs respectively. Yuraj also contributed with 25 off just 11 balls and Yusuf Pathan hit last ball six for his 1 ball he played.

England got a revised target of 198 runs in 22 overs to win the match and stay in series started aggressively by Owais Shah who promoted at no. 3 Shah made 72 runs off 48 balls with 9 fours and 3 sixes. Flitoff also hit 41 off 30 balls but after that England not able to maintained required run rate, and at the end made 178/8, but they fought well

Match Summary:

India - 166/4 in 22 overs.

England - 178/8 in 22 overs.

Toss - England, who chose to field first.

Result - India won by 19 runs (D/L method).

Man of The Match - Virendar Sehwag (India).

Series - India led the 7-match series 4-0.