Indian cricket team in West Indies in 2006

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India in West Indies in 2006
Teams
India
West Indies
Dates 16 May – 4 July 2006
Captains Rahul Dravid Brian Lara
Number of Tests 4
Tests won 1 0
Most runs (Tests) Rahul Dravid (496) Daren Ganga (344)
Most wickets (Tests) Anil Kumble (23) Corey Collymore (15)
Player of Series (Tests) Rahul Dravid
Number of ODIs 5
ODIs won 1 4
Most runs (ODIs) Virender Sehwag (237) Ramnaresh Sarwan (273)
Most wickets (ODIs) Ajit Agarkar (9) Dwayne Bravo (8)
Player of Series (ODIs) Ramnaresh Sarwan

India toured West Indies during the 2006 International cricket season. India were ranked highly above West India in both the ICC Test Championship as well as the ICC ODI Championship but the latter team had the favour of beating Zimbabwe 5–0 in a series of One-Day International matches earlier in the month. West Indies eventually emerged as winners of this ODI series, taking it 4–1 after losing the first match in the final over.

India hadn't won in West Indies for 35 years, but India beat West Indies 1-0 in the Test series. Rahul Dravid, the Indian squad captain, was awarded the Man of the Series award for his performance.

Former West Indian fast bowler and commentator, Michael Holding, said between the ODIs and Tests that the West Indies ODI series win was an event that "nobody had foreseen"[1].

Contents

[edit] Schedule

Date Match Venue
May
16 Tour Match Jamaica
18 1st ODI Jamaica
20 2nd ODI Jamaica
23 3rd ODI St Kitts
26 4th ODI Trinidad
28 5th ODI Trinidad
30-31 Tour Match Antigua
June
2-6 1st Test Antigua
10-14 2nd Test St Lucia
22-26 3rd Test St Kitts
30-4 Jul 4th Test Jamaica

[edit] Squads

Players were selected for both ODIs and Tests unless otherwise specified.

India[2][3] West Indies[4][5][6]

[edit] One-Day Matches

[edit] Tour Match (16 May)

Indians 7/289 (50) def Jamaica 173 (45) by 116 runs. [7]

[edit] First ODI (18 May)

West Indies 251/6 (45 overs) India won by 5 wickets [8]

CH Gayle 123 (131)
AB Agarkar 2/38

Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica
Umpires: A Rauf (PAK) and SA Bucknor (WI)
Man of the Match: R Dravid (Ind)
India 254/5 (44.5 overs)

R Dravid 105 (102)
IDR Bradshaw 2/40

India won the toss and captain Rahul Dravid elected to field first, after five overs were cut off each side's innings due to heavy overnight rain. West Indies hit 251 runs for 6 wickets, with Chris Gayle contributing nearly half the total, 123, before he was out with five overs remaining to Ajit Agarkar, who got the most wickets for India, claiming two for 38. However, India also had an opener contributing a century, with Rahul Dravid bringing up his hundred in 99 balls, eventually ending with 105 off 102. Dravid paired up with Mohammad Kaif to add 123 for the fourth wicket, before Dwayne Bravo had Dravid caught, leaving India with 43 to get from the last 37 balls; with two fours and a six from Mahendra Singh Dhoni, and Kaif hitting 16 off his last 16 deliveries, India made it to the target with a ball to spare.

[edit] Second ODI (20 May)

West Indies 9/198 (50 overs) West Indies won by one run [9]

RR Sarwan 98* (138)
IK Pathan 3/45

Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica
Umpires: Asad Rauf (Pak) and BR Doctrove (WI)
Man of the Match: RR Sarwan (WI)
India 197 (49.4 overs)

Yuvraj Singh 93 (121)
IDR Bradshaw 3/33

India won the toss and captain Rahul Dravid elected to field first, looking for his 18th continuous win batting second,[10] but it was not to be his day as Dwayne Bravo delivered a "clever slower ball"[11] which went through Yuvraj Singh's wicket, leaving him bowled and India all out for 197 needing 199 to win.

West Indies lost both openers with one run, sending Brian Lara in to bat with Ramnaresh Sarwan. Captain Lara was caught off Pathan for 14, however, which was to be the fourth-highest total of West Indies' innings. The second-highest was 21, from Carlton Baugh, but due to an unbeaten 98 from Ramnaresh Sarwan, which later resulted in Man of the Match honours, the West Indies' total read 198 for nine, with Sarwan and Jerome Taylor adding 34 off 20 balls for the ninth wicket before Fidel Edwards scored the final run of the innings.

In reply, India started better than West Indies, making 37 for the first two wickets, which were catches off Ian Bradshaw's bowling. Two more wickets followed, with Fidel Edwards and Jerome Taylor picking up one each, but at 60 for four in the 17th over, India were still 17 ahead of West Indies' score for the saem amount of wickets. Then, like in the West Indian innings, the fifth-wicket stand was the highest of the game. However, the 64 runs came at a rate of 3.49 an over, somewhat short of the required four to win, and after Suresh Raina's dismissal Dhoni and Agarkar followed within the next three overs.

India now had three wickets in hand and 64 to get, but Ramesh Powar batted for eight overs together with Yuvraj Singh, as the pair cut 43 off the total, Powar contributing 12. Powar was caught off Marlon Samuels' bowling, however, as the spinner picked up his second wicket, and Chris Gayle then held a return catch off Harbhajan Singh two overs later. That left India with 12 runs to get off 10 balls; the remainder of Gayle's over went for one run, and India needed eleven off the last over, which was to bw bowled by Dwayne Bravo (who had only bowled three of the 49 previous overs). Munaf Patel faced the first ball, got it away for a single, before Yuvraj Singh hit two fours to leave himself with two runs to get off three balls, only to be cleanly bowled off the last delivery.

[edit] Third ODI (23 May)

India 9/245 (50 overs) West Indies won by 4 wickets [12]

V Sehwag 97 (83)
IDR Bradshaw 2/40

Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts
Umpires: Asad Rauf (Pak) and SA Bucknor (WI)
Man of the Match: RR Sarwan (WI)
West Indies 6/248 (49.5 overs)

RR Sarwan 115 (119)
AB Agarkar 2/32

[edit] Fourth ODI (26 May)

India 7/217 (50 overs) West Indies won by 6 wickets [13]

M Kaif 62 (84)
DJ Bravo 3/32

Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad
Umpires: BR Doctrove (WI) and SJA Taufel (Aus)
Man of the Match: DJ Bravo (WI)
West Indies 4/218 (44 overs)

BC Lara 69 (97)
RR Powar 2/56

[edit] Fifth ODI (28 May)

West Indies 255/6 (50 overs) West Indies won by 19 runs[14]

DJ Bravo 62 (44)
A Agarkar 2/44 [10]

Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Umpires: SA Bucknor (WI) and SJA Taufel (Aus)
Man of the Match: DJJ Bravo (WI)
India 236 (48 overs)

V Sehwag 95 (103)
D Mohammed 3/39 [9]

[edit] First Class Matches

[edit] Tour Match (30-31 May)

Antigua and Barbuda 300 (72.2 overs) drew with Indians 9/311 (96 overs). [15]

[edit] First Test (2-6 June)

India 241 (92.5 overs) & 6/521 (dec) (150.5 overs) Match Drawn [16]

R Dravid 49 (173)
DJ Bravo 4-40

W Jaffer 212 (399)
D Mohammed 3/162

Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's, Antigua
Umpires: A Rauf (PAK) and SJA Taufel (AUS)
Man of the Match: W Jaffer (Ind)
West Indies 371 (98.3 overs) & 9/298 (95 overs)

CH Gayle 72 (91)
MM Patel 3-80

CH Gayle 69 (188)
A Kumble 4/107

[edit] Second Test (10-14 June)

India 588/8 (dec) (148.2 overs) Match Drawn [17]

V Sehwag 180 (190)
PT Collins 4-116

Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia
Umpires: A Rauf (Pak) and SJA Taufel (AUS)
Man of the Match: V Sehwag (IND)
West Indies 215 (85.1 overs) & 294/7 (119 overs)

CH Gayle 46 (106)
V Sehwag 3-33

BC Lara 120 (307)
A Kumble 3/98

[edit] Third Test (22-26 June)

West Indies 581 (170 overs) & 6/172 (dec) (32 overs) Match Drawn [18]

D Ganga 135 (294)
Harbhajan Singh 5/147

D Ganga 66* (75)
A Kumble 3/60

Warner Park Sporting Complex, Basseterre, St Kitts
Umpires: BG Jerling (SAf) and RE Koertzen (SAf)
Man of the Match: D Ganga (WI)
India 362 (107 overs) & 4/298 (85 overs)

VVS Laxman 100 (231)
CD Collymore 3/63

R Dravid 68* (131)
PT Collins 2/66

[edit] Fourth Test (30 June-4 July)

India 200 (87.4 overs) & 171 (65.1 overs) India won by 49 runs[19]

R Dravid 81 (215)
JE Taylor 5-50

R Dravid 68 (166)
CD Collymore 5-48

Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica
Umpires: BG Jerling (SA) and RE Koertzen (SA)
Man of the Match: R Dravid (IND)
West Indies 103 (33.3 overs) & 219 (69.4 overs)

D Ganga 40 (63)
H Singh 5-13

D Ramdin 62 (85)
A Kumble 6-78

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Defeat is part of the learning curve - Holding, by Michael Holding, published by Cricinfo on 30 May 2006
  2. ^ India Squad, from Cricinfo, retrieved 16 May 2006
  3. ^ Powar and Rania included in Test team, from Cricinfo, retrieved 24 May 2006
  4. ^ West Indies Squad, from Cricinfo, retrieved 16 May 2006
  5. ^ West Indies make two changes, from Cricinfo, retrieved 24 May 2006
  6. ^ Mohammed included in Test squad, from Cricinfo, retrieved 28 May 2006
  7. ^ Jamaica v Indians Scorecard, retrieved from Cricinfo, 19 May 2006
  8. ^ First ODI Scorecard, retrieved from Cricinfo, 19 May 2006
  9. ^ Second ODI Scorecard, from Cricinfo, retrieved 23 May 2006
  10. ^ India's amazing middle order, by S Rajesh, published by Cricinfo on 19 March 2006
  11. ^ Windies clinch a low-scoring thriller, by Anand Vasu, published by Cricinfo on 20 March 2006
  12. ^ Third ODI Scorecard, from Cricinfo, retrieved 25 May 2006
  13. ^ Fourth ODI Scorecard, from Cricinfo, retrieved 27 May 2006
  14. ^ Cricinfo - 5th ODI: West Indies v India at Port of Spain, scorecard retrieved 29 May 2006
  15. ^ Tour Match Scorecard: Antigua and Barbuda vs Indians, retrieved from CricInfo, 2 June 2006
  16. ^ First Test Scorecard, from Cricinfo, retrieved 6 May 2006
  17. ^ Second Test Scorecard, from Cricinfo, retrieved 15 June 2006
  18. ^ Third Test Scorecard, retrieved from CricInfo, 27 June 2006
  19. ^ Forth Test Scorecard, retrieved from CricInfo, 27 June 2006


International cricket in 2006
Preceding season International cricket in 2005–06
March 2006 ICC Intercontinental Cup
April 2006 West Indies v Zimbabwe
May 2006 West Indies v India – Associates Tri-Series  (Trinidad) – England v Sri Lanka
June 2006 Ireland v England – Scotland v Pakistan
July 2006 Netherlands v Sri Lanka – Top End Series – England v Pakistan – England U–19 v India U–19 – Sri Lanka v South Africa – Zimbabwe v Bangladesh
August 2006 England Women v India Women – Kenya v Bangladesh
Following season International cricket in 2006–07
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