Indian cricket team in England in 2004

Indian cricket team in England in 2004
Indian cricket team in England in 2004
	India
Dates	1 September – 5 September 2004
Captains	Sourav Ganguly
One Day International series
Results	England won the 3-match series 2–1
Most runs	Sourav Ganguly (121)
Most wickets	Harbhajan Singh (5)
Player of the series	Steve Harmison (Eng)

The India national cricket team toured England in 2004 for a three-match series of One Day Internationals in preparation for the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy. England won the series 2–1, winning the first two matches before India won the final match at Lord's.

Squads

England	India
Michael Vaughan (c) Kabir Ali James Anderson Gareth Batty Paul Collingwood Andrew Flintoff Ashley Giles Darren Gough Stephen Harmison Geraint Jones (wk) Anthony McGrath Vikram Solanki Andrew Strauss Marcus Trescothick	Sourav Ganguly (c) Virender Sehwag Sachin Tendulkar Rahul Dravid (wk) VVS Laxman Yuvraj Singh Mohammad Kaif Ajit Agarkar Dinesh Karthik (wk) Anil Kumble Harbhajan Singh Lakshmipathy Balaji Ashish Nehra Irfan Pathan Rohan Gavaskar

1 September 2004
Scorecard

India 170 (43.5 overs)	v	England 171/3 (32.2 overs)
Mohammad Kaif 50 (79) Alex Wharf 3/30 (8 overs)		Vikram Solanki 52 (75) Lakshmipathy Balaji 2/37 (10 overs)

England won by 7 wickets
Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Umpires: Darrell Hair (Aus) and David Shepherd (Eng)
Player of the match: Alex Wharf (Eng)

England won the toss and elected to field.
Alex Wharf (Eng) made his ODI debut.
Steve Harmison (Eng) claimed his first hat-trick in ODIs, picking the final three wickets of India's innings.^[1]^[2]

3 September 2004
Scorecard

England 307/5 (50 overs)	v	India 237 (46.3 overs)
Andrew Flintoff 99 (93) Harbhajan Singh 2/14 (10 overs)		Mohammad Kaif 51 (73) Darren Gough 4/50 (10 overs)

England won by 70 runs
The Oval, London
Umpires: Mark Benson (Eng) and Darrell Hair (Aus)
Player of the match: Andrew Flintoff (Eng)

India won the toss and elected to field.
Andrew Flintoff and Paul Collingwood broke the record for highest partnership for the fifth wicket for England in ODIs,^[3] before it was bettered by Eoin Morgan and Ravi Bopara in 2013.^[4]
Harbhajan Singh and Lakshmipathy Balaji broke the record for highest tenth wicket partnership for India in ODIs (64).^[3]

5 September 2004
Scorecard

India 204 (49.3 overs)	v	England 181 (48.2 overs)
Sourav Ganguly 90 (119) Steve Harmison 4/22 (10 overs)		Michael Vaughan 74 (141) Ashish Nehra 3/26 (7.2 overs)

India won by 23 runs
Lord's, London
Umpires: Darrell Hair (Aus) and Jeremy Lloyds (Eng)
Player of the match: Sourav Ganguly (Ind)

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^ "National Westminster Bank Challenge 2004 (1st ODI)". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 23 October 2013. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
^ ^a ^b Brickhill, Liam (4 September 2004). "Flintoff's 99 sets up a thumping victory". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
^ McGlashan, Andrew (3 September 2013). "Morgan, Bopara tons see off Ireland challenge". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
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