England chose to bat and scored 75/0 on first day. Riding on highest partnership in India-England series by Pietersen and Bell England reached 457/3 on Day 2 at stumps. Rain forced England to declare at 591/6. India lost 5 wickets in one session to end 3rd day at 103/5. On 4th day, India reached 300 for the first time in series, but were out again in 3 sessions. Following on they made 129/3. Despite huge partnership between Tendulkar and Amit Mishra, last 6 wickets folded in just 21 runs. Test series resulted in 5th whitwash in India-England history.
India vs England 2011 Series: Results
Statistics
- Ian Bell was declared Man of the Match.
Broad was declared player of the series.
Dravid was declared Indian Man of the Series.
350-run partnership between Ian Bell and Kevin Pietersen is the joint 33rd highest partnership in test cricket.
This is England’s 7th highest partnership against any nation.
This is the 4th highest partnership against India.
Srilanka’s 576 run partnership for 2nd wicket, Pakistan’s 451 run partnership between Mudassar Nazar and Miandad for 3rd wicket and Srilanka’s 351-run partnership between Mahela Jayawardene and H Jayawardene are other three instances of highest partnerships against India.
Bell scored his 16th test century and first double century.
Raina’s 29 ball duck is the 21st longest effort to open account in test cricket and joint highest (with Irfan Pathan) in Indian Test matches.
England’s three double centuries in the series is only their second such performance since 1938 Ashes.
Dravid with 35 centuries is the fourth highest centurion in Test Cricket now, after Tendulkar (51), Kallis (40) and Ponting (39).
Dravid became the 2nd player in test cricket after Sir Don Bradman to score more 3 or more centuries in two different series.
Dravid is the only player to have played more than 5000 overs in Test Cricket.
Dravid is the third Indian to remain not out when the team was all out, after opening the innings. (Gavaskar 127* vs Pakistan, Faisalabad, 1983 and Sehwag 201* vs Sri lanka, Galle, 2008 achieved the same feat)
India faced their 4th worst series defeat in series with 4 or more tests.
England registered their 3rd whitewash in series with 4 or more tests.
England 1st innings
- Strauss c Dhoni b Sreesanth 40 runs 106 balls 5 4s
Cook c Sehwag b Sharma 34 runs 87 balls 4 4s
Bell lbw Raina 235 runs 364 balls 23 4s 2 6s
Pietersen c & b Raina 175 runs 232 balls 27 4s
Anderson c Laxman b Sreesanth 13 runs 26 balls 2 4s
Morgan c Dhoni b Sreesanth 1 run 10 balls
Bopara not out 44 runs 75 balls 3 4s
Prior not out 18 runs 28 balls 2 4s
Extras (b 6, lb 8, w 7, nb 10) 31
Total (153 overs) 591/6
Fall of wickets
- 1-75 (Cook, 26.5 ov), 2-97 (Strauss, 37.6 ov), 3-447 (Pietersen, 116.6 ov), 4-480 (Anderson, 127.1 ov), 5-487 (Morgan, 129.4 ov), 6-548 (Bell, 142.4 ov)
Bowling
- RP Singh 34 ov 7 maidens 118/0
Ishant Sharma 31 ov 7 maidens 97/1
Sreesanth 29 ov 2 maidens 123/3
Raina 19 ov 2 maiden 58/2
Amit Mishra 38 ov 3 maidens 170/0
Tendulkar 2 ov 11/0
India 1st innings
- Sehwag lbw b Anderson 8 runs 6 balls 2 4s
Dravid not out 146 runs 266 balls 20 4s
Laxman c Prior b Broad 2 runs 7 balls
Tendulkar c Anderson b Swann 23 runs 34 balls 4 4s
Raina st Prior b Swann 0
Ishant Sharma c Cook b Swann 1 run 9 balls
Dhoni c Prior b Anderson 17 runs 50 balls 2 4s
Amit Mishra c Bell b Bresnan 43 runs 77 balls 6 4s 1 six
Gambhir c Pietersen b Broad 10 runs 62 balls 1 four
RP Singh c Anderson b Bresnan 25 runs 23 balls 5 4s
Sreesanth c Morgan b Bresnan 0
Extras (b 8, lb 9, w 7, nb 1) 25
Total (94 overs)300
Fall of wickets
- 1-8 (Sehwag, 0.6 ov), 2-13 (Laxman, 3.6 ov), 3-68 (Tendulkar, 18.2 ov), 4-93 (Raina, 28.5 ov), 5-95 (Sharma, 30.6 ov), 6-137 (Dhoni, 45.4 ov), 7-224 (Mishra, 69.3 ov), 8-264 (Gambhir, 87.3 ov), 9-300 (Singh, 93.4 ov), 10-300 (Sreesanth, 93.6 ov)
Bowling
- Anderson 16 ov 7 maidens 49/2
Broad 21 ov 3 maidens 51/2
Bresnan 17 ov 3 maidens 54/3
Swann 31 ov 5 maidens 102/3
Pietersen 7 ov 1 maiden 27/0
Bopara 2 ov 2 maidens
India 2nd innings (following on)
- Sehwag b Swann 33 runs 67 balls 5 4s
Dravid c Cook b Swann 13 runs 32 balls 2 4s
Laxman b Anderson 24 runs 42 balls 4 4s
Tendulkar lbw b Bresnan 91 runs 172 balls 11 4s
Amit Mishra b Swann 84 runs 141 balls 10 4s
Raina lbw b Swann 0
Dhoni c Swann b Broad 3 runs 19 balls
Gambhir c Morgan b Swann 3 runs 27 balls
RP Singh c Prior b Broad 0
Ishant Sharma not out 7 runs 21 balls 1 four
Sreesanth b Swann 6 runs 9 balls 1 four
Extras (b 12, lb 7) 19
Total (91 overs) 283
Fall of wickets
- 1-49 (Dravid, 12.6 ov), 2-64 (Sehwag, 18.1 ov), 3-118 (Laxman, 29.2 ov), 4-262 (Mishra, 75.3 ov), 5-262 (Tendulkar, 76.1 ov), 6-266 (Raina, 79.2 ov), 7-269 (Dhoni, 83.2 ov), 8-269 (Singh, 83.5 ov), 9-275 (Gambhir, 88.3 ov), 10-283 (Sreesanth, 90.6 ov)
Bowling
- Anderson 17 ov 4 maidens 54/1
Broad 20 ov 6 maidens 44/2
Swann 38 ov 6 maidens 106/6
Bresnan 11 ov 2 maidens 30/1
Bopara 3 ov 13/0
Pietersen 2 ov 17/0
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