High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This article discusses International cricket in the 2005 season. For the purposes of this article the 2005 cricket season is taken to be the whole of the English cricket season, plus those series defined to belong to the 2005 season by Cricinfo. It is a period that saw Test matches between Bangladesh and England, Australia and England, Pakistan and West Indies, and finally West Indies and Sri Lanka. There were also two major ODI tournaments, the NatWest Series and the Indian Oil Cup, an African XI took on an Asian XI for a three-match series deserted by the crowds, and the Australian women played Tests against England.