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.
Tendulkar and Anderson will reveal the newly titled trophy at Lord’s during the final of the ICC World Test Championship (WTC), which begins on June 11.
The announcement comes ahead of England’s five-match Test series against India, which will mark the start of the 2019 World Cup cycle. The first Test begins on June 20 at Headingley.
The formal reason for renaming the trophy has yet to be established, although it is believed that both boards wanted to create consistency by using a single trophy name regardless of where the series was played.
Previously, the series played in England was known as the Pataudi Trophy, after former Indian captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi. When played in India, it was known as the Anthony de Mello Trophy, after one of the founding characters of Indian cricket administration, who served as the BCCI’s secretary and president from 1946-47 to 1950-51.
This move follows a similar format in November 2024, when the England and New Zealand series was renamed the Crowe-Thorpe Trophy in honour of Martin Crowe and Graham Thorpe. Likewise, the India–Australia Test series known as the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, is named after cricketing greats Allan Border and Sunil Gavaskar.
The Indian legend Tendulkar played 200 Test matches, scoring 15,921 runs at an average of 53.78 which included 51 centuries. Anderson is the most successful fast bowler in Test history, claiming 704 wickets in 188 matches, including 32 five-wicket hauls and three 10-wicket match hauls.
India will be led by the newly appointed Test captain Shubman Gill, with Rishabh Pant serving as his deputy for the upcoming England series. The touring squad is one of the youngest Indian Test sides ever to play on English soil.
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