The India cricket team toured England from June to August 2025 to play the England cricket team. The tour consisted of five Test matches. The series formed part of the 2025–2027 ICC World Test Championship. 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.
The Anderson–Tendulkar Trophy, honouring James Anderson and Sachin Tendulkar, was awarded to the winner of the series. Initiated by Sachin Tendulkar, with the support of the BCCI and ECB, the Pataudi Medal of Excellence was a newly introduced award for the winning captain of the Test series.
Squads Ben Stokes (c) Ollie Pope (vc) Jofra Archer Gus Atkinson Shoaib Bashir Jacob Bethell Harry Brook Brydon Carse Sam Cook Zak Crawley Liam Dawson Ben Duckett Jamie Overton Joe Root Jamie Smith (wk) Josh Tongue Chris Woakes Shubman Gill (c) Rishabh Pant (vc, wk) Jasprit Bumrah Akash Deep Abhimanyu Easwaran Ravindra Jadeja Narayan Jagadeesan (wk) Yashasvi Jaiswal Dhruv Jurel (wk) Anshul Kamboj Prasidh Krishna Karun Nair KL Rahul Harshit Rana Nitish Kumar Reddy Arshdeep Singh Mohammed Siraj Sai Sudharsan Washington Sundar Shardul Thakur Kuldeep Yadav
On 17 June, Harshit Rana was added into the Indian squad for the first Test. Harshit Rana was released from the Indian squad, and did not travel with India for the second Test. On 20 July, Anshul Kamboj was added into the squad as a backup pacer. On 21 July, Nitish Kumar Reddy was ruled out of the remainder match due to an injury in his left knee and Arshdeep Singh was ruled out of the fourth test due to an injury to his left thumb. On 22 July, Akash Deep was ruled out of the fourth test due to a groin injury. During the fourth Test, Rishabh Pant fractured his foot and was ruled out of the series, later Narayan Jagadeesan was named as his replacement.
On 26 June, Jofra Archer was added into the England squad for the second Test but was not included for the 5th test. On 6 July, Gus Atkinson was added to the squad for the third Test. 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, with Liam Dawson named as his replacement. Meanwhile Sam Cook and Jamie Overton were released to their respective counties to play in the County Championship. However, later Overton was recalled back in the squad for the fifth Test. On 30 July, Ben Stokes was ruled out of the fifth Test due to a right shoulder injury, and Ollie Pope named as captain.
Tour matches
Squads England Lions India A James Rew (c, wk) Farhan Ahmed Rehan Ahmed Sonny Baker Jordan Cox (wk) Ajeet Singh Dale Rocky Flintoff Emilio Gay Tom Haines George Hill Josh Hull Eddie Jack Ben McKinney Dan Mousley Chris Woakes Abhimanyu Easwaran (c) Dhruv Jurel (vc, wk) Khaleel Ahmed Akash Deep Tushar Deshpande Harsh Dubey Ruturaj Gaikwad Yashasvi Jaiswal Anshul Kamboj Sarfaraz Khan Ishan Kishan (wk) Tanush Kotian Mukesh Kumar Karun Nair KL Rahul Harshit Rana Nitish Kumar Reddy Manav Suthar Shardul Thakur
1st unofficial Test
2nd unofficial Test
Test series 1st Test
2nd Test
3rd Test
4th Test
5th Test
Statistics Most runs Runs Batter Average 100s 50s 754 Shubman Gill 5 10 0 75.40 269 4 0 537 Joe Root 5 9 1 67.12 150 3 1 532 KL Rahul 5 10 0 53.20 137 2 2 516 Ravindra Jadeja 5 10 4 86.00 107* 1 5 481 Harry Brook 5 9 0 53.44 158 2 2Source: Cricinfo
Most wickets Bowler Runs Overs 23 Mohammed Siraj 5 9 746 185.3 6/70 32.43 2 19 Josh Tongue 3 6 552 127.0 5/125 29.05 1 17 Ben Stokes 4 8 429 140.0 5/72 25.23 1 14 Jasprit Bumrah 3 5 364 119.4 5/74 26.00 2 Prasidh Krishna 3 6 519 105.0 4/62 37.07 0Source: Cricinfo
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References
External links Series home at ESPNcricinfo