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Tendulkar's average v England: 81
Wisden CricInfo staff - December 1, 2001
Mohali: a brief history
India have played three Tests at Mohali, losing to West Indies in 1994-95, and drawing against Sri Lanka in 1997-98 and New Zealand in 1999-2000.
Overseas seamers have taken 24 wickets at 37.33
Overseas spinners have taken 7 at 75.43
Indian seamers have taken 24 at 36.08
Indian spinners have taken 21 at 39.86
All seamers: 48 at 36.70
All spinners: 28 at 48.80
England's bowlers
This will be England's first Test since August 1993 without any of Andy Caddick, Darren Gough, Angus Fraser and Dominic Cork, who between them have taken 710 Test wickets at 28.40.
England's possible attack of Matthew Hoggard, Richard Johnson, Andy Flintoff, Craig White and either Richard Dawson or Martyn Ball have taken 51 wickets at 39.10 between them, making them the least experienced bowling line-up since July 1993 when Mark Ilott, Caddick, Martin McCague and Peter Such (six caps between them) played in the third Test against Australia.
No bowlers in England's touring party have played against India before.
England's batsmen against India
Of the batsmen, only Nasser Hussain and Graham Thorpe have ever appeared in a Test against India. Both played all three Tests during India's 1996 tour of England:
Hussain scored 318 runs at 79.50
Thorpe scored 193 runs at 48.25
India's hard core
Four members of India's first Test squad have played Tests against England:
Sachin Tendulkar has played nine Tests, scoring 975 runs at 81.25
Anil Kumble has played seven Tests, taking 29 wickets at 31.72
Sourav Ganguly has played two Tests, scoring 315 runs at 105.00 and taking six wickets at 20.83
Rahul Dravid has also played in two Tests, scoring 187 runs at 62.33
Last time round
On England's last tour to India in 1992-93:
India won the three-Test series 3-0
Kumble (man of the series) took 21 wickets at 19.80
Tendulkar scored 302 runs at 100.66
Graeme Hick topped both the batting (315 runs at 52.50)and bowling averages (8 wickets at 25.25) for England
Terrible tossers
England have lost six of their last seven tosses in India, while Nasser Hussain has lost nine Test tosses in a row.
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