# England women's cricket team in India and Sri Lanka in 2005–06

The English women's cricket team toured Sri Lanka and India in November and December 2005. Against Sri Lanka, they played two One Day Internationals, winning the series 2–0. Against India, they played one Test match and 5 ODIs. The Test match was drawn, whilst India won the ODI series 4–1.

## Tour of Sri Lanka
### Squads

| Sri Lanka | England |
| Sandamali Dolawatte (c) Hiroshi Abeysinghe WA Chandrawathi Suwini de Alwis Dumila Dedunu (wk) Sumudu Fernando Inoka Galagedara Randika Galhenage (wk) Dona Indralatha Eshani Lokusuriyage Janakanthy Mala Chamari Polgampola Dedunu Silva Praba Udawatte | Charlotte Edwards (c) Caroline Atkins Rosalie Birch Arran Brindle Katherine Brunt Lydia Greenway Isa Guha Jenny Gunn Laura Harper Beth Morgan Laura Newton Nicky Shaw Jane Smit (wk) Claire Taylor Jo Watts |

### WODI Series
#### 1st ODI

* 10 November 2005 Scorecard
| England 224/4 (50 overs) | v | Sri Lanka 61 (29.4 overs) |
| Arran Brindle 64* (57) Praba Udawatte 2/27 (10 overs) | | Hiroshi Abeysinghe 19* (68) Rosalie Birch 4/14 (9 overs) |
* England Women won by 163 runs Colts Cricket Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: CBC Rodrigo (SL) and Philip Mendis (SL)
* England Women won the toss and elected to bat.
* Sumudu Fernando (SL) made her WODI debut.

#### 2nd ODI

* 12 November 2005 Scorecard
| England 206/9 (50 overs) | v | Sri Lanka 107 (41 overs) |
| Laura Newton 60 (80) Suwini de Alwis 3/38 (10 overs) | | Suwini de Alwis 29 (65) Rosalie Birch 4/22 (7 overs) |
* England Women won by 99 runs R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: JG Pushparajah (SL) and P Athukorale (SL)
* Sri Lanka Women won the toss and elected to field.
* Dumila Dedunu and WA Chandrawathi (SL) both made their WODI debuts.

## Tour of India
### Squads

| India | England |
| Mithali Raj (c) Nooshin Al Khadeer Anjum Chopra Neetu David Rumeli Dhar Jhulan Goswami Karu Jain (wk) Arundhati Kirkire (wk) Reema Malhotra Sravanthi Naidu Varsha Raffel Asha Rawat Amita Sharma Jaya Sharma Monica Sumra | Charlotte Edwards (c) Caroline Atkins Rosalie Birch Arran Brindle Katherine Brunt Lydia Greenway Isa Guha Jenny Gunn Laura Harper Beth Morgan Laura Newton Nicky Shaw Jane Smit (wk) Claire Taylor Jo Watts |

### Tour Matches
#### 50-over match: India Under-21s v England

* 17 November 2005 Scorecard
| India Under-21s 147/7 (50 overs) | v | England 149/0 (22.2 overs) |
| Diana David 40* (62) Laura Harper 3/16 (10 overs) | | Charlotte Edwards 91* (71) |
* England Women won by 10 wickets Kailash Prakash Stadium, Meerut Umpires: Kamlesh Sharma (Ind) and Manoj Pundir (Ind) Player of the match: Charlotte Edwards (Eng)
* India Under-21s Women won the toss and elected to bat.

#### 50-over match: India Under-21s v England

* 18 November 2005 Scorecard
| England 182/8 (50 overs) | v | India Under-21s 145 (49.4 overs) |
| Rosalie Birch 30 (69) Diana David 2/33 (9 overs) | | Karu Jain 48 (91) Rosalie Birch 6/24 (9.4 overs) |
* England Women won by 37 runs Kailash Prakash Stadium, Meerut Umpires: Kamlesh Sharma (Ind) and Manoj Pundir (Ind)
* England Women won the toss and elected to bat.

### Only Test

* 21 – 24 November 2005 Scorecard
* Match drawn Jamia Millia Cricket Ground, Delhi Umpires: Des Raj (Ind) and Rameshwar Singh (Ind)
* India Women won the toss and elected to bat.
* Rumeli Dhar, Karu Jain, Sravanthi Naidu, Asha Rawat and Monica Sumra (Ind) all made their WTest debuts.

### WODI Series
#### 1st ODI

* 27 November 2005 Scorecard
| England 188/7 (50 overs) | v | India 168/9 (50 overs) |
| Charlotte Edwards 68 (122) Neetu David 4/48 (10 overs) | | Monica Sumra 59 (114) Laura Harper 4/33 (8 overs) |
* England Women won by 20 runs Nahar Singh Stadium, Faridabad Umpires: Devinder Sharma (Ind) and Dharmesh Bhardwaj (Ind) Player of the match: Charlotte Edwards (Eng)
* India Women won the toss and elected to field.

#### 2nd ODI

* 1 December 2005 Scorecard
| England 162/8 (50 overs) | v | India 163/6 (49.2 overs) |
| Caroline Atkins 34 (61) Amita Sharma 3/27 (9 overs) | | Anjum Chopra 71 (132) Beth Morgan 2/27 (7.2 overs) |
* India Women won by 4 wickets K. D. Singh Babu Stadium, Lucknow Umpires: Arun Bharadwaj (Ind) and Satish Gupta (Ind) Player of the match: Anjum Chopra (Ind)
* India Women won the toss and elected to field.

#### 3rd ODI

* 4 December 2005 Scorecard
| England 215/7 (50 overs) | v | India 216/2 (40.4 overs) |
| Charlotte Edwards 66 (112) Nooshin Al Khadeer 3/46 (10 overs) | | Mithali Raj 65* (81) Arran Brindle 1/18 (3 overs) |
* India Women won by 8 wickets Nehru Stadium, Guwahati Umpires: Devinder Sharma (Ind) and Dharmesh Bhardwaj (Ind) Player of the match: Karu Jain (Ind)
* England Women won the toss and elected to bat.

#### 4th ODI

* 4 December 2005 Scorecard
| England 50 (30.4 overs) | v | India 51/0 (14.5 overs) |
| Jenny Gunn 13 (53) Jhulan Goswami 5/16 (10 overs) | | Jaya Sharma 29* (49) |
* India Women won by 10 wickets SM Dev Stadium, Silchar Umpires: Devinder Sharma (Ind) and Dharmesh Bhardwaj (Ind) Player of the match: Jhulan Goswami (Ind)
* India Women won the toss and elected to field.

#### 5th ODI

* 9 December 2005 Scorecard
| India 243/4 (50 overs) | v | England 205 (46.5 overs) |
| Karu Jain 103 (147) Arran Brindle 1/49 (9 overs) | | Arran Brindle 52 (66) Amita Sharma 2/31 (8.5 overs) |
* India Women won by 38 runs Eden Gardens, Kolkata Umpires: A Das (Ind) and Premdip Chatterjee (Ind) Player of the match: Karu Jain (Ind)
* England Women won the toss and elected to field.
* Sravanthi Naidu (Ind) made her WODI debut.