Series stats

The Man-of-the-Series award may have gone to the ubiquitous Sachin, but the end-of-series stats would beg to differ. Tendulkar did as Tendulkar does, accumulating runs at a frightening pace, but even he was outdone by Marcus Trescothick, who opened his account with a record-breaking century at Calcutta, and broke the bank with a series-levelling 95 at Mumbai. His 318 runs came from just 304 balls - a rate that reduced his opening partner Nick Knight to a humble (but valuable) plodder - and only Virender Sehwag of the front-line batsmen could keep up.

India's batsmen rattled along with high strike-rates and high averages, but a series top-score of 87 not out (and that by Tendulkar in a victory romp at Kanpur) is damning evidence of a job half-done. None of England's bowlers set the series alight, but they hung in there at crucial moments and each chipped in with at least one wicket. Michael Vaughan's ten-over spell at Mumbai (2 for 37) is a case in point.

Ashley Giles' figures are somewhat distorted by his five-wicket spell at Delhi, and the real star of England's attack was Andrew Flintoff. His up-and-at-'em action could have been cannon fodder for Ganguly and Tendulkar, but in fact only Harbhajan Singh emerged with a better economy-rate. A month ago, you'd have got long odds on Flintoff bowling that vital last over at Mumbai, but in a series where England's three victories came by the slender margins of 16 runs, two runs and five runs, no man was better qualified.

Andrew Miller is on the staff of Wisden.com

England batting

	m	i	no	runs	hs	av	sr
1 ME Trescothick	6	6	0	318	121	53.00	104.60
2 NV Knight	6	6	0	203	105	33.83	76.60
3 PD Collingwood	6	6	2	121	71*	30.25	82.31
4 N Hussain	6	6	0	177	49	29.50	80.45
5 MP Vaughan	6	6	1	147	63	29.40	72.41
6 A Flintoff	6	6	0	146	52	24.33	91.82
7 JN Snape	4	4	1	73	38	24.33	66.36
8 GP Thorpe	3	3	1	44	36*	22.00	67.69
9 BC Hollioake	3	3	0	50	37	16.66	56.81
10 JS Foster	5	4	2	27	13	13.50	52.94
11 D Gough	6	3	1	23	16*	11.50	69.69
12 AF Giles	3	2	0	18	18	9.00	78.26
13 AR Caddick	2	1	0	7	7	7.00	33.33
14 MJ Hoggard	4	2	1	5	4*	5.00	71.42

England bowling

	m	o	m	r	w	av	sr	rpo
1 AF Giles	3	26	0	145	7	20.71	22.2	5.57
2 A Flintoff	6	49.5	2	214	7	30.57	42.7	4.29
3 AR Caddick	2	20	2	100	3	33.33	40.0	5.00
4 D Gough	6	55.4	1	302	8	37.75	41.7	5.42
5 MJ Hoggard	4	34	3	191	5	38.20	40.8	5.61
6 JN Snape	4	33.4	0	184	4	46.00	50.5	5.46
7 MP Vaughan	6	18.4	1	92	2	46.00	56.0	4.92
8 BC Hollioake	3	15	0	84	1	84.00	90.0	5.60
9 PD Collingwood	6	22	0	125	1	125.00	132.0	5.68

India batting

	m	i	no	runs	hs	av	sr
1 SR Tendulkar	6	6	1	266	87*	53.20	93.99
2 SC Ganguly	5	5	0	236	80	47.20	78.92
3 D Mongia	6	6	1	213	71	42.60	73.70
4 V Sehwag	6	6	0	240	82	40.00	103.44
5 M Kaif	3	2	0	66	46	33.00	66.00
6 AB Agarkar	6	5	2	73	36*	24.33	117.74
7 HK Badani	6	5	1	89	35	22.25	81.65
8 A Ratra	6	5	1	79	30	19.75	79.00
9 VVS Laxman	3	3	0	54	26	18.00	60.00
10 Harbhajan Singh	5	3	1	29	18*	14.50	76.31
11 A Kumble	6	4	1	27	20	9.00	69.23
12 J Srinath	6	2	1	7	7*	7.00	77.77
13 SB Bangar	1	1	0	1	1	1.00	20.00
14 Sarandeep Singh	1	1	1	6	6*	-	75.00

India bowling

	m	o	m	r	w	av	sr	rpo
1 Harbhajan Singh	5	47	2	201	10	20.10	28.2	4.27
2 SC Ganguly	5	26.1	0	132	6	22.00	26.1	5.04
3 AB Agarkar	6	46	1	278	10	27.80	27.6	6.04
4 J Srinath	6	50.1	0	248	8	31.00	37.6	4.94
5 A Kumble	6	57	2	262	7	37.42	48.8	4.59
6 SB Bangar	1	7	0	40	1	40.00	42.0	5.71
7 SR Tendulkar	6	30.5	0	158	2	79.00	92.5	5.12
8 V Sehwag	6	6	0	37	0	-	-	6.16
9 HK Badani	6	5	0	21	0	-	-	4.20
10 Sarandeep Singh	1	5	0	34	0	-	-	6.80

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