It all comes down to this : The Oval, London.
India made history here in 1971 ...1st Test and Series win in England since 1932 .
The Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy heads to the Oval.
England leads the five-match series 2-1. But against a depleted English side, doesIndia has the best opportunity to restore 2-2.
Would the Dukes ball hold better this time.
Bumrah status still unclear as per late reports..let's wait and see.
Top stats so far ๐
Most runs: Shubman Gill (722 in 8 innings)
Most wickets: Ben Stokes (17 in 8 innings)
Most catches: Harry Brook (9 in 8 innings)
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ : ❌ Stokes is out!
❌ Dawson, Archer and Carse also miss out
✅ Bethell, Atkinson, Overton and Tongue come in
๐ฎ๐ณ : India made four changes :
NO KULDEEP IN THE ENTIRE SERIES ๐
The left-arm magician didn’t feature in a single Test against England. ๐ข
Dhruv Jurel ↔️ Rishabh Pant
Karun Nair ↔️ Shardul Thakur
Prasidh Krishna ↔️ Jasprit Bumrah
Akash Deep ↔️ Anshul Kamboj
UPDATE:
Toss was bit delayed due to light rain...!
Do we need the toss ..๐๐ ๐
India have lost all 4 so far and 14 consecutive International matches..!
The odds of losing 15 consecutive tosses are 32,768 to 1 ๐ณ
Yess that's it : Shubman LOST it again:
Cloudy conditions and green wicket and
๐ฎ๐ณ asked to Bat first.
Without Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav and even Shardul Thakur...Can /How India is going to take 20 England wickets..???
๐ฎ๐ณ Batting: 1st Session:
Challenging English conditions for Indian batters:
Wokes to Yashasvi Jaiswal + KL Rahul.
England review Vs Jaiswal: SUCCESSFUL.
And Pope signals Stokes in balcony ๐๐ผ๐
Yashasvi LBW Atkinson : 2 (9).
10/1 : 3.1 Ov. Sai Sudharsan in.
From flying starts to frequent stumbles...๐
Not the best phase for Yashasvi Jaiswal 8 single-digit scores in his last 20 Test innings.
This series: 101,4 / 87, 28 / 13,0 / 58,0 / 2
1st hour : 36/1 : 13 Ov : KL 13* & Sai 8*.
KL Rahul's patience ends. Dragged one cutting very close to off stump : 38/2 : 15.1 Ov
KL Rahul Bowled Wokes 14 (40).
Shubman Gill joins Sai Sudharsan 8* (42).
Sudden heavy rain forces 8 minutes early lunch.
So at Lunch: 72/2 , from 38/2 : 23 Ov.
Sai Sudharsan 25 (67), Shubman 15 (23).
Meanwhile: Shubman Gill 737* tops Sunil Gavaskar’s 732 runs against West Indies in 1978-79 - the most runs by an India captain in a Test series ๐ฅ
Post Lunch : All rain : No Play
Play start after more than a hour lost.
Disaster...Horrible run out of Captain..There was no run : ball was almost in follow through of bowler Atkinson: BIG BLOW. ๐
Shubman run out 21 off 35 : 83/3 : 27.2 Ov.
Shubman in this series: First time past 20 and not going to get hundred.
Karun Nair in : Sai Sudharsan 28*.
Rain stoppage again : 85/3 : 29 Ov.
So It's Tea.
Post Tea :
Play starts with 33 overs more to go.
100/3 : 34.2 Ov : Sai 38 (103) + Karun 3(21).
Sai Sudharsan 38 (108) : 101/4 : 35.4 Ov .
Caught behind falls to beauty from Tongue.
Jadeja joins Karun Nair.
Tounge on fire..another beauty of a delivery, gets Jadeja caught behind : 9 (13) : 125/5 : 39.3.
England on Top: Excellent conditions for pacers. Continues movement with the ball.
Jurel joins Karun Nair.
152/5 : 48.1 Ov : Karun 21* , Jurel 18*.
Jurel offers no shot LBW given out.
DRS taken , survived as outside off.
But out immediately after 2 balls : caught in slips off Atkinson,excellent catch by Brook.
Jurel 19(40) : 153/6 .
.Washington Sundar in , Karun 21(55).
Ball dominated the bat throughout the day, doing all sorts of things ..
Wokes injured while diving on the boundary.
Karun Nair worked hard here for 89 balls and gets his half century.
204/6 : 62 Ov , with 30 extras.
So at Stumps on Day 1 :
India : 204/6 : 64 Ov.
Karun Nair 52(98) ,
Washington Sundar 19(45).
A nice act of sportsmanship by Karun Nair as he denied the fourth run when Chris Woakes got injured. ❤️
Day 1 Review in Marathi:
