Sachin Tendulkar and James Anderson’s names will be carved in history after the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) decided to rename the England-India Test series the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy.
The newly named trophy will be pulled out of the closet by Tendulkar and Anderson in time for the final of the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) that gets underway on June 11 at Lord’s. England’s new World Test Championship begins, as the five match Test series against India is announced with the new cycle starting. Test cricket returns to Headingley to begin the first Test on June 20.
However, unlike, it is not known why the trophy has been renamed and it is believed that both boards were trying to introduce consistency such that whichever country the series is being played in has just a single trophy name.
The series earlier was called Pataudi Trophy in England, named after former Indian captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi. It was called the Anthony de Mello Trophy when played in India, after one of the primary Indian cricket administration pioneers; who filled in as BCCI secretary and president somewhere in the range of 1946–47 and 1950 –51.
November 2024 saw another time when the England and New Zealand series was renamed the Crowe-Thorpe Trophy as a tribute to Martin Crowe and Graham Thorpe. Just as the Boxing Day Test is named for Hardy, this test series is called the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in respect of Allan Border and Sunil Gavaskar.
Sachin Tendulkar from India played Test cricket for 200 games, scoring a total of 15,921 runs at an above-average rate of 53.78 and making fifty centuries. Amongst all fast bowlers, Anderson has the most Test wickets, taking 704 wickets in 188 games and three 10-wicket hauls.
Shubman Gill will be in charge of leading India and Rishabh Pant will serve as his deputy in the England series. This is among the youngest Indian Test squads to have participated in England.
