Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Vikram Rathour	c †Russell b Cork	4	7	13	0	0	57.14
Nayan Mongia †	c †Russell b Lewis	9	24	35	1	0	37.50
Sourav Ganguly	c Hussain b Mullally	136	268	361	17	2	50.74
Sachin Tendulkar	c Patel b Ealham	177	360	462	26	0	49.16
Sanjay Manjrekar	c Hick b Patel	53	144	217	5	1	36.80
Mohammad Azharuddin (c)	c Patel b Lewis	5	11	15	0	0	45.45
Rahul Dravid	c †Russell b Ealham	84	149	177	12	0	56.37
Anil Kumble	lbw b Mullally	0	6	4	0	0	0.00
Javagal Srinath	c Cork b Lewis	1	9	7	0	0	11.11
Venkatesh Prasad	run out (Stewart)	13	32	78	0	0	40.62
Venkatapathy Raju	not out	1	8	8	0	0	12.50
Extras	(b 6, lb 12, nb 13, w 7)	38
Total	167 Ov (RR: 3.11)	521
Fall of wickets 1-7 (Vikram Rathour), 2-33 (Nayan Mongia), 3-288 (Sourav Ganguly), 4-377 (Sachin Tendulkar), 5-385 (Mohammad Azharuddin), 6-446 (Sanjay Manjrekar), 7-447 (Anil Kumble), 8-453 (Javagal Srinath), 9-513 (Venkatesh Prasad), 10-521 (Rahul Dravid)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	WD	NB
Chris Lewis	37	10	89	3	2.40	-	4	9
Dominic Cork	32	6	124	1	3.87	-	0	4
Alan Mullally	40	12	88	2	2.20	-	1	1
Mark Ealham	29	9	90	2	3.10	-	0	0
Min Patel	24	2	101	1	4.20	-	0	2
Graeme Hick	4	1	8	0	2.00	-	0	0
Graham Thorpe	1	0	3	0	3.00	-	2	0

England 1st Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Mike Atherton (c)	c Manjrekar b Prasad	160	376	468	20	0	42.55
Alec Stewart	c †Mongia b Srinath	50	115	170	6	0	43.47
Nasser Hussain	retired hurt	107	180	236	12	0	59.44
Graham Thorpe	lbw b Ganguly	45	91	125	5	0	49.45
Graeme Hick	c Srinath b Raju	20	83	139	3	0	24.09
Mark Ealham	c sub (A Jadeja) b Srinath	51	120	151	3	0	42.50
Jack Russell †	c †Mongia b Prasad	0	5	5	0	0	0.00
Chris Lewis	lbw b Kumble	21	59	66	2	0	35.59
Dominic Cork	not out	32	96	108	2	0	33.33
Min Patel	c Manjrekar b Ganguly	27	77	88	2	0	35.06
Alan Mullally	c †Mongia b Ganguly	1	9	13	0	0	11.11
Extras	(b 18, lb 18, nb 14)	50
Total	198.5 Ov (RR: 2.83)	564
Fall of wickets 1-130 (Alec Stewart), 1-322* (Nasser Hussain, retired not out), 2-360 (Mike Atherton), 3-396 (Graham Thorpe), 4-444 (Graeme Hick), 5-444 (Jack Russell), 6-491 (Chris Lewis), 7-497 (Mark Ealham), 8-558 (Min Patel), 9-564 (Alan Mullally)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	NB
Javagal Srinath	47	12	131	2	2.78	-	5
Venkatesh Prasad	43	12	124	2	2.88	-	7
Anil Kumble	39	6	98	1	2.51	-	3
Venkatapathy Raju	43	12	76	1	1.76	-	0
Sourav Ganguly	19.5	2	71	3	3.57	-	3
Sachin Tendulkar	7	0	28	0	4.00	-	0

India 2nd Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Nayan Mongia †	c Lewis b Mullally	45	153	198	4	0	29.41
Sanjay Manjrekar	c Stewart b Lewis	11	33	35	2	0	33.33
Sourav Ganguly	b Cork	48	86	121	8	0	55.81
Sachin Tendulkar	c Stewart b Lewis	74	97	111	11	1	76.28
Rahul Dravid	c Thorpe b Mullally	8	21	24	1	0	38.09
Mohammad Azharuddin (c)	c Cork b Ealham	8	14	36	0	0	57.14
Anil Kumble	lbw b Ealham	2	6	12	0	0	33.33
Javagal Srinath	c Thorpe b Ealham	3	8	13	0	0	37.50
Venkatesh Prasad	not out	0	3	13	0	0	0.00
Venkatapathy Raju	c sub (NA Gie) b Ealham	0	4	4	0	0	0.00
Vikram Rathour	absent hurt	-	-	-	-	-	-
Extras	(b 1, lb 1, nb 9, w 1)	12
Total	69 Ov (RR: 3.05)	211
Fall of wickets 1-17 (Sanjay Manjrekar), 2-103 (Sourav Ganguly), 3-140 (Nayan Mongia), 4-160 (Rahul Dravid), 5-204 (Mohammad Azharuddin), 6-208 (Sachin Tendulkar), 7-208 (Anil Kumble), 8-211 (Javagal Srinath), 9-211 (Venkatapathy Raju)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	WD	NB
Chris Lewis	14	4	50	2	3.57	-	1	1
Dominic Cork	7	0	32	1	4.57	-	0	3
Alan Mullally	13	3	36	2	2.76	-	0	6
Mark Ealham	14	5	21	4	1.50	-	0	0
Min Patel	12	3	47	0	3.91	-	0	1
Graeme Hick	9	4	23	0	2.55	-	0	0

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Close of Play

Thu, 04 Jul

day 1 - India 1st innings 287/2 (Sourav Ganguly 136*, Sachin Tendulkar 123*)

Fri, 05 Jul

day 2 - England 1st innings 32/0 (Mike Atherton 21*, Alec Stewart 10*)

Sat, 06 Jul

day 3 - England 1st innings 322/1 (Mike Atherton 145*, Nasser Hussain 107*)

Sun, 07 Jul

rest day

Mon, 08 Jul

day 4 - England 1st innings 550/7 (Dominic Cork 24*, Min Patel 22*)

Tue, 09 Jul

day 5 - India 2nd innings 211 (69 ov) - end of match

Match Flow

Day 1

Rain stopped play immediately after Rathour's dismissal, before Ganguly even played a single ball. 28 minutes of play lost in the morning session.

Mongia was caught by Russell when the ball spilled from Hick at first slip.

Tendulkar dropped by Atherton at gully off Cork when on 0, at the Indian total of 39/2.

Tendulkar scores his 10th Test century, 4th against England.

Ganguly scores his second successive Test century, only the third batsman to score two centuries in his first two innings (after LG Rowe and AI Kallicharran). 6th batsman to score two centuries in his first two tests, second from India after Azharuddin. 5 of the 6 batsmen performed this feat against England.

New ball taken at the end of 80 overs.

Tendulkar caught by Hick in the first slip off a no ball from Cork, when on 119, and the Indian total at 261/2.

Day 2

3rd wicket partnership of 255 between Ganguly and Tendulkar, highest partnership for India against any country, away, for any wicket.

177, Tendulkar's highest Test score abroad. Two runs short of his highest Test score (179 made against West Indies).

Third new ball taken by Mullally at the 162nd over

Prasad gets a 5, from a 4 overthrow.

England to face 11 overs on day 2.

Dravid drops a difficult catch at third slip from Atherton, when on 0, off Srinath. Atherton gets a boundary.

Day 3

Azharuddin drops Atherton in the slips when on 34, off Srinath, (team total 61/0). Atherton gets a boundary. Azharuddin injured his ankle in the process and has gone to the hospital for X-rays. Tendulkar is leading the team in his absence.

New ball taken at the end of 83 overs.

England 1st innings: 1x7 ball over (in Prasad's over, allowed by umpire Sharp)

Atherton scores his 10th test century.

Hussain scores his 2nd test century, 2nd in this series.

Day 4

Day 5

Mongia and Manjrekar open for India. Rathour unlikely to bat.

Manjrekar crosses 2000 runs in Test cricket.

Gavaskar adjudicated the Man of the match award, team managers Patil and Lloyd adjudicated the Man of the series award for England and India respectively.

Match Details

GroundTrent Bridge, Nottingham

TossIndia, elected to bat first

Series

India tour of England

Season1996

Player Of The Match

Sourav Ganguly

Player Of The Series

Nasser Hussain

Sourav Ganguly

Series resultEngland won the 3-match series 1-0