Indian cricket team in England in 2025
| Indian cricket team in England in 2025 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| England | India | ||
| Dates | 20 June – 4 August 2025 | ||
| Captains | Ben Stokes | Shubman Gill | |
| Test series | |||
The India cricket team is touring England from June to August 2025 to play the England cricket team.[1] The tour consists of five Test matches.[2][3] The series forms part of the 2025–2027 ICC World Test Championship.[4] In August 2024, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) confirmed the fixtures for the tour, as a part of the 2025 home international season.[5][6]
Squads
| England[7] | India[8] |
|---|---|
On 17 June, Harshit Rana was added into the Indian squad for the first Test.[9] Harshit Rana was released from the Indian squad, and did not travel with India for the second Test.[10]
On 26 June, Jofra Archer was added into the England squad for the second Test.[11] On 6 July, Gus Atkinson was added to the squad for the third Test.[12] On 14 July, Shoaib Bashir was ruled out of the remainder of the series due to sustaining a fracture to a finger in his left hand.[13]
Tour matches
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| Date | 30 May – 9 June 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Result | 2 match series drawn 0–0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Squads
| England Lions[14] | India A[15] |
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1st unofficial Test
30 May – 2 June 2025
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- England Lions won the toss and elected to field.
- Eddie Jack (England Lions) made his first-class debut.
- Dan Mousley (England Lions) scored his maiden century in first-class cricket.[16][17]
2nd unofficial Test
Test series
1st Test
20–24 June 2025
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- England won the toss and elected to field.
- Shubman Gill captained India for the first time in Tests.[18]
- Sai Sudharsan (Ind) made his Test debut.[19]
- Shubman Gill (Ind) scored his 2,000th run in Tests.[20]
- Rishabh Pant (Ind) scored his 3,000th run in Tests, becoming the leading Asian wicketkeeper in SENA countries and the Indian wicketkeeper with the most Test centuries (7), both surpassing MS Dhoni and most sixes (62) by an Indian in the WTC, surpassing Rohit Sharma.[21]
- Jasprit Bumrah (Ind) held the record for the highest number of Test wickets in SENA nations by any Asian bowler and equalled Kapil Dev’s away five-wicket haul tally.[22]
- Chris Woakes (Eng) scored his 2,000th run in Tests.[23]
- KL Rahul (Ind) completed 1,000 Test runs against England matched the second-most fifty-plus scores by an Indian opener in SENA Tests.[24]
- Rishabh Pant became the first Indian wicketkeeper to score centuries in both innings of a Test.[25]
- Five centuries were scored by Indian batsmen for the first time in a single Test.[26] It was also the first occurrence of the losing team scoring five centuries in a Test.
- Ben Stokes (Eng) became the third England captain to claim 50 wickets in Test cricket .
- World Test Championship Points: England 12, India 0.
2nd Test
2–6 July 2025
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- England won the toss and elected to field.
- Shubman Gill (Ind) scored his maiden double century in Tests.[27] He also broke Virat Kohli's (254) record of highest individual score by an Indian captain in Tests.[28] This score combined with his century in the second innings made the second-highest aggregate score ever.[29]
- Ravindra Jadeja became the first-ever player to score 2,000 runs and take 100 wickets in WTC history.[30]
- Jamie Smith (Eng) broke Alec Stewart's record (173) for the highest score by an English wicket-keeper.[31]
- Yashasvi Jaiswal (Ind) scored his 2,000th run in Tests.[32]
- Akash Deep (Ind) took his first five-wicket haul and ten-wicket haul in Tests.[33][34]
- This was India's first ever Test win at this venue.[35] It also became the first Asian team to win at this venue.[36]
- This was also India's biggest Test victory by margin of runs away from home.[37]
- World Test Championship Points: India 12, England 0.
3rd Test
10–14 July 2025
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- England won the toss and elected to bat.
- Joe Root (Eng) became the first ever cricketer to complete 3,000 Test runs against India.[38]
- Jamie Smith (Eng) became the joint-fastest wicket-keeper-batter to complete 1,000 runs in Tests.[39]
- World Test Championship Points: England 12, India 0.
4th Test
5th Test
Notes
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