2011 :
It was a disastrous tour for team India as it lost to the English team in a very bad way. Team India was whitewashed in all the formats of the game. They lost the test series 4-0 , the only T20 international match and also the One day international matches .England's climb to No. 1 was confirmed during this series, which became one-way traffic against an increasingly dispirited India side. It started competitively at Lord's, with a fantastic Test including a double-hundred for Kevin Pietersen which ranked among his finest innings as it started on a cloudy, bowler-friendly, first day. But India lost Zaheer Khan on that first day and England piled up a match-controlling total before the home side's quick bowlers, including a rejuvenated Stuart Broad, worked through India's strong line-up. Rahul Dravid became the first batsman in the side to have his name on the honours board with a fine century. Matt Prior's fantastic hundred steadied an England wobble and set a demanding chase, then, in front of a packed Monday crowd, on a pitch still good for batting, Broad, James Anderson, Chris Tremlett and Graeme Swann bowled as a pack to dismantle the visitors.
India responded well at the start of the second Test at Trent Bridge, having England in trouble at 124 for 8, before valuable lower-order runs kept them in the game. Then, after India took a lead, Broad claimed a hat-trick in front of his home crowd. England's second innings was marshalled by Ian Bell, promoted to No. 3 after an injury to Jonathan Trott, and he scored a majestic hundred but the innings was tinged by controversy. On the stroke of tea on the third day Bell thought he'd struck a boundary and that the ball was dead, but the fielder had stopped it and as Bell wandered off for the break he was run out. Initially the decision stood but during the interval, after discussions between both teams, MS Dhoni reversed his appeal. It's doubtful the course of the match was altered and on the fourth day Tim Bresnan took his first five-wicket haul in Tests to secure a win.
From there on, India were broken. Alastair Cook piled up a monumental 294 at Edgbaston, in a crushing innings victory that secured England the No. 1 Test ranking, then at The Oval there was a double hundred for Bell and another dazzling show from Pietersen. Dravid, in what was a magnificent series, responded to being asked to open by carrying his bat for 146 but India still followed on. The final day was shaping to be about Sachin Tendulkar as he approached his 100th international hundred but on 91 he was given lbw to Bresnan. From there India collapsed. Again.
Tests: England 4 India 0
T20: England
ODIs: England 4: India
