diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/rest/action/cat/RestIndicesAction.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/rest/action/cat/RestIndicesAction.java
index fccff5bd69fc5..057b1afd8eb1e 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/rest/action/cat/RestIndicesAction.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/rest/action/cat/RestIndicesAction.java
@@ -74,27 +74,41 @@ public void doRequest(final RestRequest request, final RestChannel channel, fina
         clusterStateRequest.clear().indices(indices).metaData(true);
         clusterStateRequest.local(request.paramAsBoolean("local", clusterStateRequest.local()));
         clusterStateRequest.masterNodeTimeout(request.paramAsTime("master_timeout", clusterStateRequest.masterNodeTimeout()));
+        final IndicesOptions strictExpandIndicesOptions = IndicesOptions.strictExpand();
+        clusterStateRequest.indicesOptions(strictExpandIndicesOptions);
 
         client.admin().cluster().state(clusterStateRequest, new RestActionListener<ClusterStateResponse>(channel) {
             @Override
             public void processResponse(final ClusterStateResponse clusterStateResponse) {
-                ClusterState state = clusterStateResponse.getState();
-                final IndicesOptions concreteIndicesOptions = IndicesOptions.fromOptions(false, true, true, true);
-                final String[] concreteIndices = indexNameExpressionResolver.concreteIndices(state, concreteIndicesOptions, indices);
-                final String[] openIndices = indexNameExpressionResolver.concreteIndices(state, IndicesOptions.lenientExpandOpen(), indices);
-                ClusterHealthRequest clusterHealthRequest = Requests.clusterHealthRequest(openIndices);
+                final ClusterState state = clusterStateResponse.getState();
+                final String[] concreteIndices = indexNameExpressionResolver.concreteIndices(state, strictExpandIndicesOptions, indices);
+                // concreteIndices should contain exactly the indices in state.metaData() that were selected by clusterStateRequest using
+                // IndicesOptions.strictExpand(). We select the indices again here so that they can be displayed in the resulting table
+                // in the requesting order.
+                assert concreteIndices.length == state.metaData().getIndices().size();
+
+                // Indices that were successfully resolved during the cluster state request might be deleted when the subsequent cluster
+                // health and indices stats requests execute. We have to distinguish two cases:
+                // 1) the deleted index was explicitly passed as parameter to the /_cat/indices request. In this case we want the subsequent
+                //    requests to fail.
+                // 2) the deleted index was resolved as part of a wildcard or _all. In this case, we want the subsequent requests not to
+                //    fail on the deleted index (as we want to ignore wildcards that cannot be resolved).
+                // This behavior can be ensured by letting the cluster health and indices stats requests re-resolve the index names with the
+                // same indices options that we used for the initial cluster state request (strictExpand). Unfortunately cluster health
+                // requests hard-code their indices options and the best we can do is apply strictExpand to the indices stats request.
+                ClusterHealthRequest clusterHealthRequest = Requests.clusterHealthRequest(indices);
                 clusterHealthRequest.local(request.paramAsBoolean("local", clusterHealthRequest.local()));
                 client.admin().cluster().health(clusterHealthRequest, new RestActionListener<ClusterHealthResponse>(channel) {
                     @Override
                     public void processResponse(final ClusterHealthResponse clusterHealthResponse) {
                         IndicesStatsRequest indicesStatsRequest = new IndicesStatsRequest();
-                        indicesStatsRequest.indices(concreteIndices);
-                        indicesStatsRequest.indicesOptions(concreteIndicesOptions);
+                        indicesStatsRequest.indices(indices);
+                        indicesStatsRequest.indicesOptions(strictExpandIndicesOptions);
                         indicesStatsRequest.all();
                         client.admin().indices().stats(indicesStatsRequest, new RestResponseListener<IndicesStatsResponse>(channel) {
                             @Override
                             public RestResponse buildResponse(IndicesStatsResponse indicesStatsResponse) throws Exception {
-                                Table tab = buildTable(request, concreteIndices, clusterHealthResponse, indicesStatsResponse, clusterStateResponse.getState().metaData());
+                                Table tab = buildTable(request, concreteIndices, clusterHealthResponse, indicesStatsResponse, state.metaData());
                                 return RestTable.buildResponse(tab, channel);
                             }
                         });
diff --git a/rest-api-spec/src/main/resources/rest-api-spec/test/cat.indices/10_basic.yaml b/rest-api-spec/src/main/resources/rest-api-spec/test/cat.indices/10_basic.yaml
index a5a67d1a557cb..51f8fe9ed4c8d 100644
--- a/rest-api-spec/src/main/resources/rest-api-spec/test/cat.indices/10_basic.yaml
+++ b/rest-api-spec/src/main/resources/rest-api-spec/test/cat.indices/10_basic.yaml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
   - match:
       $body: |
                /^(green  \s+
-                  (open|close) \s+
+                  open   \s+
                   index1 \s+
                   1      \s+
                   0      \s+
@@ -49,3 +49,24 @@
                   (\d\d\d\d\-\d\d\-\d\dT\d\d:\d\d:\d\d.\d\d\dZ) \s*
                 )
                 $/
+  - do:
+      indices.close:
+        index: index1
+
+  - do:
+      cat.indices:
+        index: index*
+
+  - match:
+      $body: |
+               /^(       \s+
+                  close  \s+
+                  index1 \s+
+                         \s+
+                         \s+
+                         \s+
+                         \s+
+                         \s+
+                         \s*
+                )
+                $/