West Indian cricket team in India in 2011–12

The West Indies cricket team toured India from 6 November to 11 December 2011. The tour consisted of three Test matches and five One Day Internationals (ODIs).^[1] On day three of the First Test, Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar became the first cricketer to pass 15,000 runs in Test cricket.^[2]

West Indian cricket team in India in 2011–12
	India	West Indies
Dates	6 November – 11 December 2011
Captains	MS Dhoni (Test) Virender Sehwag[n 1] (ODI)	Darren Sammy
Test series
Result	India won the 3-match series 2–0
Most runs	Rahul Dravid (319)	Darren Bravo (404)
Most wickets	Ravichandran Ashwin (22)	Darren Sammy (9)
Player of the series	Ravichandran Ashwin (Ind)
One Day International series
Results	India won the 5-match series 4–1
Most runs	Rohit Sharma (305)	Kieron Pollard (199)
Most wickets	Ravindra Jadeja (9)	Kemar Roach (9)
Player of the series	Rohit Sharma (Ind)

Squads

Tests		ODI Squads
India[3]	West Indies[4]	India	West Indies
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c & wk) Varun Aaron Ravichandran Ashwin Rahul Dravid Gautam Gambhir Virat Kohli VVS Laxman Pragyan Ojha Ajinkya Rahane Virender Sehwag Ishant Sharma Rahul Sharma Sachin Tendulkar Umesh Yadav Yuvraj Singh Rohit Sharma	Darren Sammy (c) Adrian Barath Carlton Baugh (wk) Devendra Bishoo Kraigg Brathwaite Darren Bravo Shivnarine Chanderpaul Fidel Edwards Kirk Edwards Kieran Powell Denesh Ramdin (wk) Ravi Rampaul Kemar Roach Marlon Samuels Shane Shillingford	Virender Sehwag (c) Varun Aaron Ravichandran Ashwin Manoj Tiwary Gautam Gambhir Virat Kohli Suresh Raina Ravindra Jadeja Ajinkya Rahane Vinay Kumar Parthiv Patel (wk) Rahul Sharma Rohit Sharma Umesh Yadav Praveen Kumar Abhimanyu Mithun Irfan Pathan	Darren Sammy (c) Adrian Barath Sunil Narine Anthony Martin Lendl Simmons Darren Bravo Danza Hyatt Andre Russell Kieron Pollard Kieran Powell Denesh Ramdin (wk) Ravi Rampaul Kemar Roach Marlon Samuels Jason Mohammed

Test series

1st Test

6–10 November 2011 Scorecard

West Indies	v	India
304 (108.2 overs) Shivnarine Chanderpaul 118 (196) Pragyan Ojha 6/72 (34.2 overs)		209 (52.5 overs) Virender Sehwag 55 (46) Darren Sammy 3/55 (8 overs)
180 (57.3 overs) Shivnarine Chanderpaul 47 (58) Ravichandran Ashwin 6/47 (21.3 overs)		276/5 (80.4 overs) Sachin Tendulkar 76 (148) Darren Sammy 2/56 (16 overs)

India won by 5 wickets Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi Umpires: Kumar Dharmasena (SL) and Rod Tucker (Aus) Player of the match: Ravichandran Ashwin (Ind)

• West Indies won the toss and elected to bat.
• Sachin Tendulkar became the first cricketer to score 15,000 Test runs.
• Ravichandran Ashwin and Umesh Yadav (both Ind) made their Test debuts.

2nd Test

14–18 November 2011 Scorecard

India	v	West Indies
631/7d (151.2 overs) VVS Laxman 176* (280) Kemar Roach 2/106 (26 overs)		153 (48 overs) Darren Bravo 30 (56) Pragyan Ojha 4/64 (22 overs)
		463 (f/o) (126.3 overs) Darren Bravo 136 (230) Umesh Yadav 4/80 (17.3 overs)

India won by an innings and 15 runs Eden Gardens, Kolkata Umpires: Bruce Oxenford (Aus) and Rod Tucker (Aus) Player of the match: VVS Laxman (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to bat.
• India got their second largest lead of 478 in Test cricket.

3rd Test

22–26 November 2011 Scorecard

West Indies	v	India
590 (184.1 overs) Darren Bravo 166 (284) Ravichandran Ashwin 5/156 (52.1 overs)		482 (135.4 overs) Ravichandran Ashwin 103 (118) Marlon Samuels 3/74 (17 overs)
134 (57.2 overs) Darren Bravo 48 (105) Pragyan Ojha 6/47 (27 overs)		242/9 (64 overs) Virat Kohli 63 (114) Ravi Rampaul 3/56 (16 overs)

Match drawn Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: Tony Hill (NZ) and Bruce Oxenford (Aus) Player of the match: Ravichandran Ashwin (Ind)

• West Indies won the toss and elected to bat.
• Varun Aaron (Ind) made his Test debut.
• Rahul Dravid became the second cricketer to score 13,000 Test runs.
• Ravichandran Ashwin became the third Indian to score a century and take a five-wicket haul in the same Test.
• This was the second Test match ever to be drawn with scores level.

ODI series

1st ODI

29 November 2011 14:30 (D/N) Scorecard

West Indies  211/9 (50 overs)	v	India 213/9 (48.5 overs)
Darren Bravo 60 (74) Umesh Yadav 2/33 (8 overs)		Rohit Sharma 72 (99) Kemar Roach 3/46 (10 overs)

India won by 1 wicket Barabati Stadium, Cuttack Umpires: Tony Hill (NZ) and Shavir Tarapore (Ind) Player of the match: Rohit Sharma (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to field.

2nd ODI

2 December 2011 14:30 (D/N) Scorecard

West Indies  269 (50 overs)	v	India 270/5 (48.1 overs)
Ravi Rampaul 86* (66) Umesh Yadav 3/38 (10 overs)		Virat Kohli 117 (123) Kemar Roach 2/40 (10 overs)

India won by 5 wickets Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam Umpires: Tony Hill (NZ) and Sundaram Ravi (Ind) Player of the match: Virat Kohli (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to field.

3rd ODI

5 December 2011 14:30 (D/N) Scorecard

West Indies  260/5 (50 overs)	v	India 244 (46.5 overs)
Marlon Samuels 58 (93) Vinay Kumar 2/39 (10 overs)		Rohit Sharma 95 (100) Ravi Rampaul 4/57 (8.5 overs)

West Indies won by 16 runs Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad Umpires: Sudhir Asnani (Ind) and Tony Hill (NZ) Player of the match: Ravi Rampaul (WI)

• India won the toss and elected to field.
• Sunil Narine (WI) made his ODI debut.

4th ODI

8 December 2011 14:30 (D/N) Scorecard

India  418/5 (50 overs)	v	West Indies 265 (49.2 overs)
Virender Sehwag 219 (149) Andre Russell 1/63 (7 overs)		Denesh Ramdin 96 (96) Ravindra Jadeja 3/34 (10 overs)

India won by 153 runs Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore Umpires: Tony Hill (NZ) and Sundaram Ravi (Ind) Player of the match: Virender Sehwag (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to bat.
• Rahul Sharma (Ind) made his ODI debut.
• Virender Sehwag's score of 219 broke the previous record for the highest individual ODI score by Sachin Tendulkar. It was the second double-century by a batsman in ODI cricket. The innings consisted of 25 fours and 7 sixes, hitting 65% of his runs with boundaries.^[5]
• India registered their highest ever total in ODIs.

5th ODI

11 December 2011 14:30 (D/N) Scorecard

India  267/6 (50 overs)	v	West Indies 233 (44.1 overs)
Manoj Tiwary 104 (r/h) (126) Kemar Roach 2/46 (8 overs)		Kieron Pollard 119 (110) Ravindra Jadeja 3/62 (10 overs)

India won by 34 runs MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai Umpires: Sudhir Asnani (Ind) and Tony Hill (NZ) Player of the match: Manoj Tiwary (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to bat.
• Gautam Gambhir was the stand in captain for this match in absence of Virender Sehwag.
• Jason Mohammed (WI) made his ODI debut.

Notes

1. Gautam Gambhir captained India in the fifth ODIs.