English cricket team in India in 2024–25

English cricket team in India in 2024–25
 
  India England
Dates 22 January – 12 February 2025
Captains Rohit Sharma (ODIs)
Suryakumar Yadav (T20Is)
Jos Buttler
One Day International series
Results India won the 3-match series 3–0
Most runs Shubman Gill (259) Ben Duckett (131)
Most wickets Ravindra Jadeja (6)
Harshit Rana (6)
Adil Rashid (7)
Player of the series Shubman Gill (Ind)
Twenty20 International series
Results India won the 5-match series 4–1
Most runs Abhishek Sharma (279) Jos Buttler (146)
Most wickets Varun Chakravarthy (14) Brydon Carse (9)
Player of the series Varun Chakravarthy (Ind)

The England cricket team toured India in January and February 2025 to play the India cricket team.[1] The tour consisted of three One Day International (ODI) and five Twenty20 International (T20I) matches.[2] In June 2024, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) confirmed the fixtures for the tour, as a part of the 2024–25 home international season.[3] The ODI series was used as preparation ahead of the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy.[4]

On 13 August 2024, BCCI swapped the venue of first and second T20I match, because a request from Kolkata Police to the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) regarding their prior Republic Day commitments and obligations.[5][6]

Squads

 India  England
ODIs[7] T20Is[8] ODIs[9] T20Is[10]

On 25 January, Nitish Kumar Reddy was ruled out of the T20I series after he sustained a side strain injury,[11] and Shivam Dube and Ramandeep Singh were added into the squad.[12]

On 4 February, Varun Chakravarthy was added into the ODI squad.[13]

On 8 February, Tom Banton was added to the ODI squad as a cover.[14]

T20I series

1st T20I

22 January 2025
19:00 (N)
Scorecard
England 
132 (20 overs)
v
 India
133/3 (12.5 overs)
Jos Buttler 68 (44)
Varun Chakravarthy 3/23 (4 overs)
Abhishek Sharma 79 (34)
Jofra Archer 2/21 (4 overs)
India won by 7 wickets
Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Umpires: Jayaraman Madanagopal (Ind) and Nitin Menon (Ind)
Player of the match: Varun Chakravarthy (Ind)

2nd T20I

25 January 2025
19:00 (N)
Scorecard
England 
165/9 (20 overs)
v
 India
166/8 (19.2 overs)
Jos Buttler 45 (30)
Axar Patel 2/32 (4 overs)
Tilak Varma 72* (55)
Brydon Carse 3/29 (4 overs)
India won by 2 wickets
M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai
Umpires: K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan (Ind) and Virender Sharma (Ind)
Player of the match: Tilak Varma (Ind)
  • India won the toss and elected to field.
  • Jamie Smith (Eng) made his T20I debut.

3rd T20I

28 January 2025
19:00 (N)
Scorecard
England 
171/9 (20 overs)
v
 India
145/9 (20 overs)
Ben Duckett 51 (28)
Varun Chakravarthy 5/24 (4 overs)
Hardik Pandya 40 (35)
Jamie Overton 3/24 (4 overs)
England won by 26 runs
Niranjan Shah Stadium, Rajkot
Umpires: K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan (Ind) and Rohan Pandit (Ind)
Player of the match: Varun Chakravarthy (Ind)
  • India won the toss and elected to field.

4th T20I

31 January 2025
19:00 (N)
Scorecard
India 
181/9 (20 overs)
v
 England
166 (19.4 overs)
Hardik Pandya 53 (30)
Saqib Mahmood 3/35 (4 overs)
Harry Brook 51 (26)
Ravi Bishnoi 3/28 (4 overs)
India won by 15 runs
Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune
Umpires: Jayaraman Madanagopal (Ind) and Nitin Menon (Ind)
Player of the match: Shivam Dube (Ind)

5th T20I

2 February 2025
19:00 (N)
Scorecard
India 
247/9 (20 overs)
v
 England
97 (10.3 overs)
Abhishek Sharma 135 (54)
Brydon Carse 3/38 (4 overs)
Phil Salt 55 (23)
Mohammed Shami 3/25 (2.3 overs)
India won by 150 runs
Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
Umpires: Rohan Pandit (Ind) and Virender Sharma (Ind)
Player of the match: Abhishek Sharma (Ind)
  • England won the toss and elected to field.
  • India made their highest powerplay score (95/1).[20]
  • Abhishek Sharma (Ind) set the highest individual score (135) surpassing Shubman Gill (126) and hit most sixes in an innings (13) going past Rohit Sharma (10) by an Indian player in T20Is.[21][22]
  • India recorded their second-biggest victory in T20Is.[23]

ODI series

1st ODI

6 February 2025
13:30 (D/N)
Scorecard
England 
248 (47.4 overs)
v
 India
251/6 (38.4 overs)
Jos Buttler 52 (67)
Ravindra Jadeja 3/26 (9 overs)
Shubman Gill 87 (96)
Adil Rashid 2/49 (10 overs)
India won by 4 wickets
Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur
Umpires: K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan (Ind) and Sharfuddoula (Ban)
Player of the match: Shubman Gill (Ind)
  • England won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Yashasvi Jaiswal and Harshit Rana (Ind) both made their ODI debuts.
  • Ravindra Jadeja (Ind) took his 600th wicket in international cricket,[24] and thus became the first Indian spinner to complete 6000 runs and 600 wickets in international cricket.[25]
  • Harshit Rana became the first Indian bowler to take a 3-wicket haul on debut in all three formats of international cricket.[26]

2nd ODI

9 February 2025
13:30 (D/N)
Scorecard
England 
304 (49.5 overs)
v
 India
308/6 (44.3 overs)
Joe Root 69 (72)
Ravindra Jadeja 3/35 (10 overs)
Rohit Sharma 119 (90)
Jamie Overton 2/27 (5 overs)
India won by 4 wickets
Barabati Stadium, Cuttack
Umpires: Chris Brown (NZ) and Jayaraman Madanagopal (Ind)
Player of the match: Rohit Sharma (Ind)

3rd ODI

12 February 2025
13:30 (D/N)
Scorecard
India 
356 (50 overs)
v
 England
214 (34.2 overs)
Shubman Gill 112 (102)
Adil Rashid 4/64 (10 overs)
Gus Atkinson 38 (19)
Axar Patel 2/22 (6.2 overs)
India won by 142 runs
Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad
Umpires: Sharfuddoula (Ban) and Virender Sharma (Ind)
Player of the match: Shubman Gill (Ind)
  • England won the toss and elected to field.
  • Shubman Gill (Ind) became the fastest batsman to cross 2,500 runs, in terms of innings (50), surpassing South Africa's Hashim Amla in ODIs.[30]
  • Virat Kohli (Ind) scored 16,000 runs across all formats in Asia, becoming the 4th player overall to achieve this milestone. He also became the fastest to reach this feat in just 340 innings, surpassing Kumar Sangakkara's 410 innings record.[31]
  • Shubman Gill scored his 5,000th run in international cricket.[32]
  • Shubman Gill became only the fifth player in international cricket history to score a century in all three formats at a single venue.[33]

Notes

  1. ^ a b In squad for last 4 T20Is only.
  2. ^ In squad for first T20I only.
  3. ^ In squad for first, fourth and fifth T20I only.
  4. ^ In squad for third ODI only.

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