The Indian cricket team, led by Virat Kohli, defeated England by 157 runs in a Test match at the Kensington Oval Cricket Ground half a century later.
With this victory, the Indian team took a 1-2 lead in the five-Test series. The English cricket team had a 99-run lead over India in the first innings, but in the second innings, the hosts’ required 364 for victory. Failed to reach the target of runs.
After England openers Rory Burns and Haseeb Hameed put on a solid first-wicket partnership of 100 for victory, it was not impossible for England to score three and a half runs per over to reach the target in the first innings. But after the openers, no English batsman could play in front of the Indian bowlers and the team piled up 210 runs.
With the victory in the Oval Test, India ensured that they would not lose the Test series and would be in a better position on the points table of the ICC Test Championship at the end of the Test series. This is the first time since 2007 that the Indian team will not lose a Test series on English soil. Now India have a golden opportunity to make a new history in the last Test at Old Trafford.
England and India have played 14 Tests at the Kensington Oval Cricket Ground, with hosts England winning five and India winning two and drawing seven. England had completed a hat trick by defeating India in the last three Test matches at the Oval Ground.
The Indian cricket team led by Virat Kohli has won the third Test match on English soil and with this victory Kohli also became the first Asian captain to win three Test matches in England.
England captain Joe Root won the toss and invited India to bat and the bowlers performed well to justify their captain’s decision. The Indian team was bowled out for 191 runs. India’s Shardal Thackeray batted aggressively and scored his half-century to help India reach the total. Captain Kohli also scored a half-century. Chris Vokes struck out four and Oli Robinson struck out three.
In response, the English team did not have a good start. Bamra had created a sensation in his second over by dismissing Rory Burns and Haseeb Hameed. Haseeb Hameed could not even open the account. Burns had scored five runs. As a result of the good performance of the Indian bowlers, the English batsmen also had difficulty in scoring runs. At 62 runs, half the team had gone to the pavilion.
Oli Pope 81, Chris Vokes 50, Moin Ali 35, David Milne 31 and Joe Root 21. The Merban team managed to add 290 runs and took a 99-run lead over India. India’s Amish Yadav took three wickets, Bamra and Jadeja took two wickets each.
India’s openers Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul, who lost by 99 runs in the first innings, made the second innings confident and scored 83 runs for the first wicket. Rahul fell victim to Anderson for 46 runs. Pujara and Sharma put on 153 for the second wicket, the biggest partnership of the Test match.
Rohit Sharma completed his first Test century abroad during this period and he fell victim to Robinson for 127 runs. Pujara (64), Kohli (44), KC Pant (50), Shardal Thakur (60), Amish Yadav (25) and Bamra (24) helped India score 466 runs. England’s Chris Vokes took three wickets while Moin Ali and Robinson took two wickets each.
England got a record target of 368 runs to win the match but the English team had a lot of time to achieve this goal. And he had to score three and a half runs per over. The wicket was also conducive to batting.
The straight and lifeless wicket at the Oval Cricket Ground was in no way helpful to the bowlers after the third day, as evidenced by the brilliant batting of the Indian batsmen who piled up runs. In the pursuit of 368 runs for victory, England openers Rory Burns and Haseeb Hameed batted confidently and scored 100 runs for the first wicket partnership.
Nowhere at this stage did it appear that the English team would lose the match, but it had a huge lead in the match and its chances of success were clear, but Shardal Thackeray took the wicket of opener Rory Burns to bat the English. There was a rift in the line and then soon David Milne was also run out. No player was out for 100 runs. The wicket did not fall but after the first wicket fell, the entire England team returned to the pavilion for 210 runs by adding only 110 runs in the next 60 overs.
Burns 50, Haseeb Hameed 63, Jorot 31, Chris Vokes 18 runs were scored. Amish Yadav Three ‘Bamwa’ Jadeja and Thakur took two wickets each.
Jaspreet Bumra’s bowling was excellent after the lunch break. Such an example of Indian fast bowlers is rarely seen on English soil. He made 9 maidens in 22 overs in the second innings and took two wickets for 27 runs. Jaspreet Bumra bowled brilliantly from the old ball on this straight wicket, reminiscent of Pakistani legends Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and Muhammad Asif and India’s Irfan Pathan and Zaheer Khan.
It was very difficult for English batsmen to play their balls. Bamra’s excellent bowling can be gauged from the fact that he bowled three maidens in six overs and led six key players, Pope and Bairstow, to the pavilion with six runs. Although he took only two wickets in the second innings, he continued to put pressure on the English bowlers from one end with his measured bowling and from the other end his fellow bowlers were busy hunting down the English batsmen. India scored 466 in the second innings, which was India’s second highest score in the second innings in England.
Earlier in 1967, India had scored 510 runs in the second innings. It was India’s highest score on English soil after 664 runs in the Oval Test in 2007. The Indian cricket team last scored 466 or more runs in the second innings of the Test match against New Zealand in the Napier Test when the Indian batsmen scored 476 for four to avert a certain defeat. In 2013, against South Africa, the Indian team piled up 421 in the second innings.
The Indian team has the distinction of never losing after setting a target of 350 or more to win the fourth innings of a Test match. India have won 34 matches with a target of 350 or more. 15 Test matches drawn. In the 1977 Perth Test against India, Australia won the Test match by scoring the highest target of 339 in the fourth innings.
India are the first team to win a Test match after losing more than 50 runs in the first innings at the Oval Ground. This is the third major deficit of the first innings overall after which India won the Test match.
Earlier, India had won the Port of Spain Test against the West Indies in 1976 despite a 131-run deficit in the first innings. He won the Test against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1981 after a 182-run deficit. This is the third time in the history of Indian cricket that the Indian team has won the next Test after losing an innings in the previous Test.
Indian all-rounder Shardul Thackeray, batting at number eight, scored half-centuries in both the innings. He is the sixth batsman in the world and the third batsman in India to do so.
For India, Harbhajan Singh scored half-centuries in the eighth innings in the 2010 Ahmedabad Test and Vardhman Saha in the 2016 Eden Gardens Calcutta Test in both innings, both of whom scored against New Zealand.
India, under the captaincy of Ajit Wadikar, defeated England by four wickets in the Oval Test for the first time in 1971. The Test match was played from August 19 to 24 and the second day could not be played due to bad weather. The English team was led by Ray Alngorth. In this match, Indian spinners played the main role.
In the second innings, the English team could not stand in front of the spinning balls of spinners Chandra Shekhar and Venkat Raghun. The entire team was piled up at only 101 runs. Five players were able to enter the double figure. England also had a lead in the first innings against India in the 1971 Oval Test and India won the Test match by four wickets. Due to this victory, the Indian team was able to defeat England in the Test series for the first time in history.
The Indian cricket team has won two Test matches for the second time in a Test series on English soil. Earlier in 1986, India, led by Kapil Dev, had beaten England 2-0 in a three-Test series.
Thackeray and Amish Yadav also played a key role in helping India win the series on Australian soil. And this time too, the performance of these two players was very good. Thackeray scored half-centuries in both innings and took wickets in difficult times.
Jaspreet Bumra got his 100th wicket in this Test match by bowling Oli Pope for 2 runs and he became the Indian fast bowler to take 100 wickets in the fewest Test matches. He did this in his 24th Test.
Jaspreet Bumra made her first and 100th victim with a clean bow. Before Bamra, Indian all-rounder Kapil Dev took 25 wickets, Irfan Pathan 28 and Mohammad Shami 29, Javagal Srinath 100th wicket in 30 Test matches. The record for taking 100 wickets in the fewest Test matches in India is held by spinner Ravi Chandran Eshwan, who did so in his 18th Test in 2013.
Jaspreet Bumra made his Test debut against South Africa in the Cape Town Test in January 2018 and took his first Test wicket by bowling AB de Villiers clean in the first innings and taking three wickets in the second innings. What was
Jaspreet Bumra is the 23rd Indian bowler to take 100 wickets in Test cricket but he is at the top in terms of his strike rate and average per wicket.
The fifth and final Test match of the series between India and England will start on Friday, September 10 at Old Trafford Manchester. The two teams will compete on this ground seven years later. If the dedicated Indian players win the match on this ground too, they will make another new history as the Indian team has not won any Test match against England on this ground.
England and India have played nine Tests at the Old Trafford Ground, four of which were won by the English cricket team and five drawn. The first Test match between the two teams was played at Old Trafford in 1936, in which the Indian team was led by the Maharaja of Vizianagram and the English team was captained by Gabby Allen. This first test was inconclusive.
The two teams last met here in August 2014, in which Alastair Cook XI defeated Dhoni XI by an innings and 53 runs.
In the first innings of the match, the Indian team was bowled out for 154 in front of Stuart Broad’s fast bowling and six wickets were bowled out for zero. Were included.
Broad led six Indian players to the pavilion. England scored 367 runs. In the second innings, the Indian batsmen could not match Moin Ali’s spin bowling who had lost four wickets. The entire team was bowled out for 161 in the second innings. Both the teams have a number of players who have played in this Test match at Old Trafford. India’s Virat Kohli, Ravi Chandran Eshwan, Ajinkya Rihanna, Ravindra Jadeja and Chattiswar Pujara, while England’s Joe Root, Jose Butler, Moin Ali Vokes’ James Anderson.
England have included Jose Butler and spinner Jack Leach for the final Test at Old Trafford and England will do their best to win the Test to level the series. And a historic opportunity. If Kohli XI wins the last Test match, it will become the first Indian team in the history of Indian cricket to win three Tests in a Test series on English soil.
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