The Indian cricket team will play a 5-match Test series against England at the end of this month. Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli will not be part of the team on this difficult tour. Both of them had announced their retirement from Tests before the tour. Coach Gautam Gambhir will play against the English team with an almost new team. Two weeks before the five-Test India vs England series, the Pataudi Trophy has been renamed as the Tendulkar-Anderson Trophy.

Indian cricket team's great batsman Sachin Tendulkar is the highest run-scorer in Test history. He played 200 Test matches between 1989 and 2013 in which he scored a record 15921 runs. Anderson has been England's greatest bowler and is the fastest bowler to take the most 704 wickets in Tests. According to the report, the Test series between India and England has now been renamed as the Sachin-Anderson Trophy. Earlier it was known as the Pataudi Trophy.

Tendulkar and Anderson played 14 Test matches against each other. No bowler dismissed Tendulkar more times than Anderson. Anderson dismissed him nine times. The move to honor Tendulkar and Anderson in this way is similar to the Crowe-Thorpe Trophy, named after former New Zealand batsman Martin Crowe and England's Graham Thorpe.

Test series played between England and India in the United Kingdom were earlier played for the Pataudi Trophy. Which was named after the Pataudi family. Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi played for both India and England in the 1930s and 40s while his son Mansoor played for India in the 1960s and 70s and was one of the great captains.

England managed to win the current and last Pataudi Trophy. The last time the Indian team played a series in England, it was tied 2-2. The India vs England series played in England was named after Pataudi 18 years ago. Since then both the teams have been fighting for it when India tours England.

Former Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar had earlier written in his column for Sportstar, "The recent news that the ECB is going to retire the Pataudi Trophy, which is awarded to the winners of the Test series between England and India in England, is indeed disturbing. This is the first time a trophy has been named after individual players, although this decision is entirely that of the ECB, and the BCCI would have been informed about it."

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