The India national cricket team toured England from 22 June to 9 September 2002. The tour comprised a four-match Test series, preceded by a triangular One Day International tournament that also featured Sri Lanka. India won the ODI tournament, beating England in the final, while the Test series was drawn 1–1.
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The field has droned the summer’s final mass;
A cricket like a dwindled hearse
Crawls from the dry grass.”
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