Pakistani cricket team in India in 2007–08

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Play from the third Test Match meeting between India and Pakistan, Banglore, December 2007
Pakistani cricket team in India in 2007–08
 
  Pakistan India
Dates 2 November – 12 December 2007
Captains
Younus Khan

(3rd Test)		 Anil Kumble (Tests)
MS Dhoni (ODIs)
Test series
Result India won the 3-match series 1–0
Most runs Misbah-ul-Haq (464) Sourav Ganguly (534)
Most wickets Danish Kaneria (12) Anil Kumble (18)
Player of the series Sourav Ganguly (Ind)
One Day International series
Results India won the 5-match series 3–2
Most runs
Mohammad Yousuf
(283)		 Yuvraj Singh (272)
Most wickets Sohail Tanvir (8) RP Singh (6)
Player of the series Yuvraj Singh (Ind)

The Pakistan national cricket team toured India in November 2007 and played five ODIs and three Test matches between 6 November and 12 December. India won the ODI series by a 3–2 margin,[1] while the Test series was won by a 1–0 margin.

Background

The tour schedule was released in mid June 2007. It was announced that the Pakistan squad would arrive on 2 November and would play five ODIs followed by three Tests, the tour that would follow Australia's India tour for seven ODIs.[2] In mid October 2007, the first three ODIs were rescheduled in that it was announced that they would be played a day each in advance, in order to accommodate the third ODI on a Sunday.[3]

This was the fourth tour combined between the two countries in as many years. Pakistan came to India on the back of a superior record against the Indian side in both Tests and ODIs. In Tests they had a 12–8 record in their favour, while in ODIs from 1978 till the start of this series, they had won 62 per cent of the games, with the figure dropping to 57 after 2000.[4] India also had a poor home record in ODIs against Pakistan having won six matches and lost 15 leading up to the series.[5]

Issam Ahmed of

declaration of emergency in Pakistan and the Pakistan team's "disappointing" performance at home against South Africa, "enthusiasm on the street seems pretty hard to come by".[4] The same state was echoed in India by The Hindu which dubbed this Pakistan team the "weakest ... to tour India" while adding that despite the "number of young players with proven ability [it] lacks names that inspire awe". It also attributed this to "playing each other every year, due to which the novelty of watching the two neighbours slug it out has waned" and that the "intensity ... has ... reduced".[6] However, Pakistan's coach Geoff Lawson called the series "bigger than the Ashes".[4]

Squads

ODIs Tests
 India[7]  Pakistan[8]  India[9]  Pakistan[10]

A 16-member Pakistan ODI squad was named on 26 October 2007.

Younus Khan was appointed as their vice-captain.[11] Mohammad Asif was ruled out initially for the first three ODIs,[12] and later the subsequent ODIs and the Test series due to an elbow injury, before being replaced by Mohammad Sami leading into the Test series.[13] India announced their squad for the first two ODIs 27 October. Rahul Dravid and Dinesh Karthik were dropped following inconsistent performances in the preceding series and were replaced by Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir, with Praveen Kumar as the only new inclusion in the squad.[7] An unchanged side announced for the next two ODIs.[14]

Bowler

Younus Khan was asked to lead the side.[19]

Tour match

2 November 2007
09:00
Scorecard
Delhi
213/9 (50 overs)
v
 Pakistan
215/3 (42.4 overs)
Rajat Bhatia 75 (107)
Younis Khan 2/25 (6 overs)
Salman Butt 83 (84)
Amit Bhandari 1/25 (7 overs)
Pakistan won by 7 wickets
Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Umpires: Anil Dandekar and R. Radhakrishnan
Player of the match: Salman Butt (Pakistan)[20]
  • Pakistan won the toss and elected to field.
  • 14 players per side (11 batting, 11 fielding)

After putting in

pitch that assisted swing, Pakistan picked quick wickets reducing the hosts to 46/4. A 91-run stand between Shikhar Dhawan and Rajat Bhatia then followed before a lower order collapse took Delhi's score to 213 after 50 overs. In reply, Imran Nazir slammed 34 from 22 balls before he was removed by Amit Bhandari.[21] Salman Butt and Misbah-ul-Haq (39) then put together a 116-run stand, with the former retiring hurt after brisk 83 off 84 balls. Subsequently, Yasir Hameed took the team home while remaining unbeaten on 33.[20]

ODI series

1st ODI

2nd ODI

3rd ODI

11 November
Scorecard
India 
294/6 (50 overs)
v
 Pakistan
248 (47.2 overs)
Yuvraj Singh 77 (95)
Sohail Tanvir 2/26 (10 overs)
Salman Butt 129 (142)
R. P. Singh 3/62 (8 overs)
India won by 46 runs
Green Park Stadium, Kanpur
Umpires: Ian Gould (Eng) and Amiesh Saheba (Ind)
Player of the match: Yuvraj Singh (Ind)
  • Pakistan won the toss and elected to field.
  • MS Dhoni (Ind) became the third wicketkeeper-batsman to score more than 1,000 ODI runs in a year.[25]

4th ODI

15 November
Scorecard
Pakistan 
255/6 (50 overs)
v
 India
260/4 (46.3 overs)
Mohammad Yousuf 99* (104)
Zaheer Khan
2/40 (10)
Sachin Tendulkar 97 (102)
Umar Gul 1/42 (8)
India won by 6 wickets
Captain Roop Singh Stadium, Gwalior
Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and Amiesh Saheba (Ind)
Player of the match: Sachin Tendulkar (Ind)
  • Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Sourav Ganguly (Ind) picked his 100th wicket in ODIs and became the third player to complete 10,000 runs, 100 wickets and 100 catches in ODIs.[26]
  • Zaheer Khan (Ind) picked his 200th wicket in ODIs.[26]
  • Sourav Ganguly played his last ODI match.

5th ODI

18 November
Scorecard
Pakistan 
306/6 (50 overs)
v
 India
275 (49.5 overs)
Shoaib Malik 89 (82)
S. Sreesanth 3/52 (10 overs)
Rohit Sharma 52 (61)
Sohail Tanvir 4/53 (9.5 overs)
Pakistan won by 31 runs
Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and Suresh Shastri (Ind)
Player of the match: Shoaib Malik (Pak)
  • India won the toss and elected to field.
  • Sarfraz Ahmed
    (Pak) made their ODI debut.
  • Mohammad Yousuf and Shoaib Malik (Pak) put together 168 runs, Pakistan's highest against India for the fourth wicket.[27]

Test series

1st Test

2nd Test

30 November–4 December
Scorecard
v
616/5d (152.5 overs)
Wasim Jaffer 202 (274)
Sohail Tanvir 2/166 (39 overs)
456 (151.1 overs)
Misbah-ul-Haq 161* (351)
Harbhajan Singh 5/122 (47 overs)
184/4d (42.4 overs)
Wasim Jaffer 56 (75)
Shoaib Akhtar 2/46 (12.4 overs)
214/4 (77 overs)
Younus Khan 107* (211)
Anil Kumble
2/73 (25 overs)
Match drawn
Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and Rudi Koertzen (SA)
Player of the match: Wasim Jaffer (Ind)
  • Bad light ended play before scheduled time on days 1, 2 and 4.

3rd Test

8–12 December
Scorecard
v
626 (150.2 overs)
Yasir Arafat
5/161 (39 overs)
537 (168.1 overs)
Misbah-ul-Haq 133* (322)
Ishant Sharma 5/118 (33.1 overs)
284/6
Yasir Arafat
2/49 (13.3 overs)
162/7 (36 overs)
Faisal Iqbal 51 (54)
Anil Kumble 5/60 (14 overs)
Match drawn
M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Umpires: Rudi Koertzen (SA) and Simon Taufel (Aus)
Player of the match: Sourav Ganguly (Ind)

Broadcast

India's public service broadcaster Prasar Bharati bought the broadcasting rights of the entire series, both ODIs and Tests, in Doordarshan for ₹81.25 crore. It also bought rights for radio commentary for US$10,000 for each ODI and Test.[34]

References

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