| Indian cricket team in England in 2018 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 |
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| England | India | ||
| Dates | 3 July – 11 September 2018 | ||
| Captains |
Joe Root (Tests) Eoin Morgan (ODIs & T20Is) | Virat Kohli | |
| Test series | |||
| Result | England won the 5-match series 4–1 | ||
| Most runs | Jos Buttler (349) | Virat Kohli (593) | |
| Most wickets | James Anderson (24) | Ishant Sharma (18) | |
| Player of the series | Sam Curran (Eng), Virat Kohli (Ind) | ||
| One Day International series | |||
| Results | England won the 3-match series 2–1 | ||
| Most runs | Joe Root (216) | Virat Kohli (191) | |
| Most wickets | Adil Rashid (6) | Kuldeep Yadav (9) | |
| Player of the series | Joe Root (Eng) | ||
| Twenty20 International series | |||
| Results | India won the 3-match series 2–1 | ||
| Most runs | Jos Buttler (117) | Rohit Sharma (137) | |
| Most wickets | David Willey (3) | Hardik Pandya (6) | |
| Player of the series | Rohit Sharma (Ind) | ||
The India cricket team toured England between July and September 2018 to play five Tests, three One Day International (ODIs) and three Twenty20 International (T20Is) matches.[1][2][3] India also played a three-day match against Essex in July at Chelmsford.[4]
India won the T20I series 2–1.[5] In the second T20I, MS Dhoni played in his 500th international cricket match.[6] He became the ninth player overall, and the third Indian, to reach this milestone.[7]
England won the ODI series 2–1,[8] making it their eighth consecutive bilateral ODI series win.[9] It also ended India's run of nine previous bilateral series wins, and was the first such loss under the captaincy of Virat Kohli.[9] In the second ODI match, Dhoni became the twelfth batsman to score 10,000 runs in ODIs.[10]
The first Test of the tour, which started on 1 August at Edgbaston, was the 1,000th to be played by the England team,[11][12] making them the first team to reach this milestone.[13] Ahead of the fifth Test, England's Alastair Cook announced that he would retire from international cricket following the conclusion of the series.[14][15] In the second innings of the fifth Test, Cook scored a century, becoming only the fifth batsman to score a century in his first and last Test matches.[16] In the process, he moved up to fifth on the list of all-time leading run-scorers in Test cricket, moving ahead of Kumar Sangakkara.[17] In the same match, James Anderson took his 564th wicket, the most wickets in Tests by a fast bowler, going past Glenn McGrath.[18] England went on to win the Test series 4–1.[19]
