Tour of Bangladesh 2009-10                    Captain :  Alastair Cook           

England’s 98th Test tour.

(February-March 2010)

Second Test-playing tour of Bangladesh by England

  (previous tour  2003-04)

England had been to Bangladesh only once before but this time the hosts made far stronger opposition than in 2003-04 despite the impression that may be given by the 0-3 and 0-2 results.

In the first Test at Chittagong Bangladesh fought back extremely well and at Mirpur gave England a difficult session as Tamim Iqbal blazed a score

Before the Test matches  England had played a pair of T20 matches against Pakistan in the UAE and in a one-day series against Bangladesh

Other England tours

Previous Test tour

South Africa 2009-10

Next Test tour

Australia 2010-11

Next tour of  Bangladesh

2016-17

Members of the Test tour party (16)

Opening batsmen:  Michael Carberry,  Alastair Cook.

Middle-order batsmen Ian Bell, Paul Collingwood, Kevin Pietersen, Jonathan Trott

Wicket-keeper: Matt Prior, Steven Davies.

All-rounders:  Luke Wright

Slow bowlers:Graeme Swann, James Tredwell

Fast bowlers: Stuart Broad, Liam Plunkett, Graham Onions, Ajmal Shahzad, Ryan Sidebottom

⋄   ECB central contracts 2009-10:

Seven players were awarded England increment contracts: Ravi Bopara, Tim Bresnan, Andrew Flintoff, Adil Rashid, Owais Shah, Jonathan Trott and Luke Wright. Also Eoin Morgan (3 March 2010) and Steven Finn (4 June 2010)

County representation:

Dy – Derbyshire (

Dm - Durham

Ex  -  Essex (

Gm - Glamorgan (

Gs - Gloucestershire (

Ha - Hampshire (

Kt  -  Kent (

La - Lancashire (

Mx - Middlesex (

Nth - Northamptonshire (

Nt - Nottinghamshire (

Sm - Somerset (

Sy - Surrey (

Sx - Sussex (

Wk - Warwickshire (

Wo - Worcestershire (

Yo - Yorkshire (

Average age of  team at time of first Test match

(12 March 2010): 

    27 yrs  8 months.

T20   Member of Twenty20 squad against Pakistan in UAE

ODI  Member of one-day international squad against Bangladesh

Test Appearances made before the tour

Pietersen 58,  Collingwood 57,  Bell 53,  Cook 52,  Prior 27,  Broad 26,  Sidebottom 22,  Swann 16,  Plunkett 9,  Onions 8,  Trott 5,  Bresnan 2,  Carberry 0,  Davies 0,  Finn 0,  Shahzad 0,  Tredwell 0,  Wright 0.

Tour Officials

There were 28 in the tour party : sixteen players and 12 officials.

Graham Gooch started working as a batting coach with England in November 2009.

Selectors

 Geoff Miller (national selector),  Andy Flower (Team Director), Ashley Giles,  James Whitaker

Selection

Not considered:   James Anderson (rehabilitation from knee injury),  Andrew Strauss (rested)

On 18 January Alastair Cook was named as captain.

One-day and Test Tour Parties Announced  : 18 January

Not selected:  Monty Panesar.

On 20 Feruary Craig Kieswetter was added to the one-day international squad in Bangladesh

Time between selection and departure from England

   days

 (7 August - 14 February)

Travel

London  Q  Dubai    Q  Dhaka

The T20 team departed on14 February for a “warm-up” tour in United Arab Emirates and arrived in Dubai on Sunday..

On 21 February they flew out of Dubai for Bangladesh, and arrived in Dhaka.

Time spent in UAE    7 days

(14 - 21 February)  and time spent in Bangladesh  32 days  (21 February -  25 March)

On-tour selection panel

-

Reinforcements

A thigh injury during the first ODI caused Ryan Sidebottom to return home early and Tim Bresnan who was already in Bangladesh stayed on after the ODIs.

 Steven Finn flew out as cover because Stuart Broad (back strain) and Graham Onions (also back strain) were injured, arriving in the country less than 24 hours before the start of the tour match at Chittagong in which he played.

Fixtures/Results

† not first-class

Å

Time spent in Bangladesh before First Test:   19 days

(21 February - 12 March)

Test appearances on tour

2  -    Bell,  Bresnan,  Broad,  Collingwood,  Cook,  Finn,  Pietersen,  Prior,  Swann,  Trott.

1  -    Carberry,  Tredwell.

0  -    Davies,  Onions,  Plunkett,  Shahzad,  Sidebottom,  Wright.

Match appearances

T  Test match

o  one-day international 

x other match 

⊕ T/20 international

 W won  L lost  D drawn

N no result   A abandoned

u unknown result

England used 12 players in the match against Bangladesh A at Chittagong

Highlights

•   Alastair Cook in his first Test as England captain scored 173 at Chittagong.

•   After Kevin Pietersen was dismissed for 99, Paul Collingwood scored 145 and England declared on 599-6.

•   Graeme Swann then took 5-90 and 5-127 giving him ten wickets in the match.

•   Ian Bell scored 138 in the second Test, adding 143 for the 7th wicket with Tim Bresnan (91).

•   Alastair Cook scored his second hundred (109*) at Mirpur ,and Pietersen 74*, as England won by nine wickets

Tour Summary

F  Fixtures   W  Won   L  Lost   D Drawn   T  Tied  Canc  Cancelled  Aban  abandoned

Return to England

Dhaka   Q   London

Ryan Sidebottom flew home from the tour with a thigh injury

The team returned from Dhaka on 25 March 2010.

Time away from England

  39 days  

(14 February - 25 March)

Finances

Accounts of the tour

Postscript

Alastair Cook, having won the two Test matches for which he was placed in charge, returned the captaincy to Andrew Strauss for the return series with Bangladesh at home in May and then Pakistan. Cook resumed the Test captaincy in 2012. 

Other Test tours in 2009-10

Acknowledgements

To general reading of The Times newspaper digital archive (Gale Group);  Jamaica Gleanor archive;  National Library of Australia Trove; Papers Past NZ.

From former British Newspaper Library, Colindale and online:  The Age, Melbourne Argus, Bangladesh Daily Star, Barbados Advocate, Canberra Times, Daily Telegraph, Dawn, Eastern Daily Press, The Hindu, The Independent (Dhaka), Indian Express, The Island (Lanka), Lahore Times, New Nation, New Zealand Auckland Herald, Sri Lanka Daily News, Stabroek News, Straits Times, Sydney Morning Herald, The Telegraph (Calcutta), Times of India , The Tribune Chandigarh, Trinidad Guardian, The West Australian.

cricketweb.net;  ESPN cricinfo;  cricket archive; www.cricketcountry; www.coverpoint

Magazines/periodicals including Australian Cricket, B & H West Indies Annual, The Cricketer International, Cricketer Quarterly, Indian Cricket, Indian Cricket Field Annual, Playfair Cricket Monthly, Shell Cricket Almanack of New Zealand, Wisden Cricket Monthly, Wisden Book of Test Cricket, Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack.

Men In White, A History of Australian Cricket (Harte), A History of Indian Cricket (Bose), A History of West Indies Cricket (Manley)

Biography and tour books (own collection and at the M.C.C. Library at Lord’s Ground)                     ALL CONTENTS OF THE TEST-CRICKET-TOURS.CO.UK WEBSITE  ARE COPYRIGHT