Indvseng, taking full advantage of the lax performance of Indian bowlers and loose fielding, with the help of Ben Docket’s brilliant century, England easily achieved a target of 371 runs and defeated India by five wickets on the fifth day of the first Test. Both of them shut down all the ways of India’s return to India by partnering 188 runs for the first wicket. After this, Joe Root scored 53 and Jamie Smith scored 44 runs to win the team.
England 1 in the five -match series. Is ahead of 0. India scored five centuries in this match, but despite this, the team suffered defeat. Bad fielding was also responsible for this, as Indians dripped many catches. India’s difficulties also increased due to Jasprit Bumrah not getting support in bowling from the other end.
Indian bowlers gave 44 fours and three sixes in the second innings only. There were 54 fours and five sixes in the first innings. The second Test starting on July two is still time but a change in the bowling attack is certain so that the entire 20 wickets can be taken in the match.
In the last session, Ravindra Jadeja caught England captain Ben Stokes by Shubman Gill. At that time England needed 69 runs, so Root used his experience of more than 150 Tests to take the host to the floor with young Smith.
Yashasvi Jaiswal dripped four catches from India. Captain Gill’s inexperience was also clearly seen, whose decisions and strategies were not accurate. At one time it seemed that the most experienced batsman KL Rahul is captaining. With this defeat, the record of coach Gautam Gambhir in the traditional format got worse.
India has now lost seven out of 11 Tests while Gambhir’s coach. This figure is also afraid of reaching double digits as Bumrah will not play two out of the remaining four matches.
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Shardul Thakur took 16 overs in the entire match and took two wickets. The way Ravindra Jadeja was seen battling for the rhythm, the team management must have been rubbing on the decision not to feed Kuldeep Yadav.
The famous Krishna took five wickets in the match but the way he has fours on his balls, he does not see reliable bowlers. In such a situation, seam and swing bowling masters Ishant Sharma and Mohammed Shami were short of.
Left -handed batsman Docket played Bumrah in the morning session. Bumrah gave 57 runs in 19 overs but did not succeed. Docket and Jack Croly (65) shared a 188 -run partnership for the first wicket.
India benefited from some time after lunch, India benefited and failed in the morning, Krishna took two wickets for 92 runs in 15 overs. He grabbed Croly in slip to Rahul. After this, Oli Pope (eight), who scored a century in the first innings, was sent to the pavilion. Despite the shocks, Docket continued to bat aggressively.
In the morning session, Bumrah bowled well but did not get support from the other end. England batsmen kept pressure on Siraj and Thakur.
Docket also got a life from Jaiswal on Siraj’s ball. Jadeja did not get any help from the pitch and Dock put him many good reverse sweeps. On one reverse sweep, he hit a six over the extra cover on the other. India had to bear the brunt of not unloading the spinner running in form like Kuldeep. Khardul tried to return India to the match by dismissing Docket and Harry Brook (0) but by then it was too late. Docket caught Nitish Reddy in the cover while Brook caught Rishabh Pant behind the wicket. (Language)
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