Indian cricket team in Bangladesh in 2004–05

The Indian cricket team toured Bangladesh for two Tests and three One Day Internationals (ODIs) from 10 December 2004 to 27 December 2004. India won the Test series 2-0 and the ODI series 2–1.

India in Bangladesh 2004–05
	Bangladesh	India
Dates	10 December 2004 – 27 December 2004
Captains	Habibul Bashar	Sourav Ganguly
Test series
Result	India won the 2-match series 2–0
Most runs	Mohammad Ashraful (221)	Sachin Tendulkar (284)
Most wickets	Mohammad Rafique (6)	Irfan Pathan (18)
Player of the series	Irfan Pathan (Ind)
One Day International series
Results	India won the 3-match series 2–1
Most runs	Aftab Ahmed (106)	Mohammad Kaif (158)
Most wickets	Khaled Mahmud (6)	Ajit Agarkar (6)
Player of the series	Mohammad Kaif (Ind)

Test matches

1st Test

10–13 December 2004 Scorecard

Bangladesh	v	India
184 (57.5 overs) Mohammad Ashraful 60 (135) Irfan Pathan 5/45 (16 overs)		526 (136.4 overs) Sachin Tendulkar 248*(379) Mushfiqur Rahman 2/104 (24 overs)
202 (53.2 overs) Manjural Islam 69 (116) Irfan Pathan 6/51 (15 overs)

India won by an innings and 140 runs Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka Umpires: Aleem Dar (Pak) and Jeremy Lloyds (Eng) Player of the match: Irfan Pathan (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to field.

2nd Test

17–20 December 2004 Scorecard

India	v	Bangladesh
540 (148.2 overs) Rahul Dravid 160 (304) Mohammad Rafique 4/156 (50 overs)		333 (91 overs) Mohammad Ashraful 158* (194) Anil Kumble 4/55 (26 overs)
		124 (26.4 overs) Talha Jubair 31 (24) Irfan Pathan 5/32 (9 overs)

India won by an innings and 83 runs MA Aziz Stadium, Chittagong Umpires: Aleem Dar (Pak) and Mark Benson (Eng) Player of the match: Mohammad Ashraful (Ban)

• India won the toss and elected to bat.
• Nazmul Hossain (Ban) made his Test debut.

ODI series

1st ODI

23 December 2004 Scorecard

India 245/8 (50 overs)	v	Bangladesh 234/8 (50 overs)
Mohammad Kaif 80 (111) Nazmul Hossain 2/39 (9 overs)		Habibul Bashar 65 (96) Sridharan Sriram 3/43 (9 overs)

India won by 11 runs MA Aziz Stadium, Chittagong Umpires: Aleem Dar (Pak) and Mahbubur Rahman (Ban) Player of the match: Mohammad Kaif (Ind)

• Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field
• MS Dhoni and Joginder Sharma (Ind) both made their ODI debuts.

2nd ODI

26 December 2004 Scorecard

Bangladesh 229/9 (50 overs)	v	India 214 (47.5 overs)
Aftab Ahmed 67 (98) Ajit Agarkar 2/31 (9 overs)		Sridharan Sriram 57 (91) Tapash Baisya 2/35 (10 overs)

Bangladesh won by 15 runs Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka Umpires: Aleem Dar (Pak) and AFM Akhtaruddin (Ban) Player of the match: Mashrafe Mortaza (Ban)

• Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat.
• This was also Bangladesh's 1st ODI win at home.

3rd ODI

27 December 2004 Scorecard

India 348/5 (50 overs)	v	Bangladesh 257/9 (50 overs)
Virender Sehwag 70 (52) Khaled Mahmud 3/62 (10 overs)		Rajin Saleh 82 (114) Sachin Tendulkar 4/54 (9 overs)

India won by 91 runs Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka Umpires: Aleem Dar (Pak) and Mahbubur Rahman (Ban) Player of the match: Virender Sehwag (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to bat

External links

• Cricarchive
• Tour page ESPNcricinfo
• Record ESPNcricinfo