India vs England 2008-09 cricket series starts on 14 November….

England will play 2 Tests followed by 7 ODI’s during the Indian tour starting November 09, 2008.The senior selection committee of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will meet in Nagpur on November five to select the One-Day team for the seven-match series against England starting at Rajkot on November 14.
“The selectors will meet at Hotel Pride in Nagpur to pick the 14-member team for the One-Day series against England on November five,” BCCI secretary N. Srinivasan said on Monday.

England will arrive in Mumbai on Thursday and will play practice matches against a team from Mumbai on November 9 and 11. The first one-day international starts in Rajkot on November 14, while the two-Test series begins in Ahmedabad on December 11.
Fifth-ranked England beat South Africa 4-0 at home in the one-day international series in September, but its players suffered a setback to morale with a thumping defeat in a Twenty20 exhibition against the Stanford Superstars in Antigua on Saturday. The team of West Indian players collected US$1 million each for the victory while England went home empty-handed.

India ODI team : Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Rohit Sharma, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Munaf Patel, Ishant Sharma, Pragyan Ojha, Rudra Pratap Singh, Virat Kohli, Murali Vijay.

England ODI team : Kevin Pietersen (captain), James Anderson, Ian Bell, Ravi Bopara, Stuart Broad, Paul Collingwood, Alastair Cook, Andrew Flintoff, Steve Harmison, Samit Patel, Matt Prior, Owais Shah, Ryan Sidebottom, Graeme Swann, Luke Wright.

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