Indian cricket team in England in 2018
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. India also played a three-day match against Essex in July at Chelmsford.
| Indian cricket team in England in 2018 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | ||
India won the T20I series 2–1. In the second T20I, MS Dhoni played in his 500th international cricket match. He became the ninth player overall, and the third Indian, to reach this milestone.
England won the ODI series 2–1, making it their eighth consecutive bilateral ODI series win. It also ended India's run of nine previous bilateral series wins, and was the first such loss under the captaincy of Virat Kohli. In the second ODI match, Dhoni became the twelfth batsman to score 10,000 runs in ODIs.
The first Test of the tour, which started on 1 August at Edgbaston, was the 1,000th to be played by the England team, making them the first team to reach this milestone. Ahead of the fifth Test, England's Alastair Cook announced that he would retire from international cricket following the conclusion of the series. 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. 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. In the same match, James Anderson took his 564th wicket, the most wickets in Tests by a fast bowler, going past Glenn McGrath. England went on to win the Test series 4–1.