Worst Series
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* India won a T20I on this tour
Team India's third-worst series
After the Test series humiliation, the T20 defeat and the ODI debacle, many Team India fans would have exhaled in relief that the misery has come to an end. The doomed tour's over but it has found a place in cricket's history book as India's third-worst performance in a combined Test and ODI series.
In 86 such series where India played both ODI and Test matches, this is only the fourth time that they failed to register even a single win. The 1974 tour of England is considered to be the worst in which the Indians lost all the three Tests and two ODIs. Incidentally, India played their first-ever ODI on that tour.
After the disastrous performance in the Test series in which two matches were lost by an innings and one by 113 runs, Indians impressed the spectators in their first ODI by giving the English side a target of 266 runs. The Indians, however, lost to the experienced English side which romped home with almost 9 overs to spare. India were then thrashed in the second ODI.
Equally disastrous was the 1989 West Indies tour in which India could not win a single match. Torrential rains rescued Indians from a complete whitewash as the first Test match was confined to two days and was declared a draw. In the five ODIs, Viv Richards' team outplayed the Indians and Dilip Vengsarkar's boys could not win even a single match.
Rains again saved the world champions from a complete whitewash in the recently-concluded series in England as the fourth ODI was tied on Duckworth/Lewis method. The match could have gone either way. That tie helped India avoid a whitewash.
Many cricket fans must be comparing the present tour with the 1983 'revenge' series. After their World Cup loss, the West Indies toured India and defeated the world champions in all five ODIs. But in that series the Caribbean victory march was stopped by Gavaskar's outstanding batting in the Test series. India managed to draw three of the six Test matches. Gavaskar scored his 30th Test century - highest for any batsman at that time - in that series.
Even during the 1999-2000 tour of Australia and the 1996-97 tour of South Africa, the Indian team had managed to save some face. In Australia, Steve Waugh's team did not allow the Indians to cross the 300-run mark any innings in the three Tests, but the Indians managed to defeat Pakistan in the triangular series. At that time Australia and Pakistan were world's best ODI teams.
In 86 such series where India played both ODI and Test matches, this is only the fourth time that they failed to register even a single win. The 1974 tour of England is considered to be the worst in which the Indians lost all the three Tests and two ODIs. Incidentally, India played their first-ever ODI on that tour.
After the disastrous performance in the Test series in which two matches were lost by an innings and one by 113 runs, Indians impressed the spectators in their first ODI by giving the English side a target of 266 runs. The Indians, however, lost to the experienced English side which romped home with almost 9 overs to spare. India were then thrashed in the second ODI.
Equally disastrous was the 1989 West Indies tour in which India could not win a single match. Torrential rains rescued Indians from a complete whitewash as the first Test match was confined to two days and was declared a draw. In the five ODIs, Viv Richards' team outplayed the Indians and Dilip Vengsarkar's boys could not win even a single match.
Rains again saved the world champions from a complete whitewash in the recently-concluded series in England as the fourth ODI was tied on Duckworth/Lewis method. The match could have gone either way. That tie helped India avoid a whitewash.
Many cricket fans must be comparing the present tour with the 1983 'revenge' series. After their World Cup loss, the West Indies toured India and defeated the world champions in all five ODIs. But in that series the Caribbean victory march was stopped by Gavaskar's outstanding batting in the Test series. India managed to draw three of the six Test matches. Gavaskar scored his 30th Test century - highest for any batsman at that time - in that series.
Even during the 1999-2000 tour of Australia and the 1996-97 tour of South Africa, the Indian team had managed to save some face. In Australia, Steve Waugh's team did not allow the Indians to cross the 300-run mark any innings in the three Tests, but the Indians managed to defeat Pakistan in the triangular series. At that time Australia and Pakistan were world's best ODI teams.
Series | Tests | Won/Draw | ODI | Won/Tie |
India in England-1974 | 3 | 0/0 | 2 | 0/0 |
India in West Indies-1989 | 4 | 0/1 | 5 | 0/0 |
India in England-2011 | 4 | 0/0 | 5 | 0/1 |
West Indies in India-1983 | 5 | 0/3 | 5 | 0/0 |
India in Australia-1999-00 | 3 | 0/0 | 8 | 1/0 |
India in N Zealand-2002 | 2 | 0/0 | 7 | 2/0 |
India in South Africa-1996-97 | 3 | 0/1 | 8 | 1/1 |
India in Pakistan-1978 | 3 | 0/1 | 3 | 1/0 |
India in Australia-1991 | 5 | 0/1 | 10 | 2/1 |
India in South Africa-2006 | 3 | 1/0 | 4 | 0/0 |
* India won a T20I on this tour
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