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Mohammed Siraj couldn’t hold back his tears as Dhruv Jurel ran in and hugged him. Shubman Gill stood quietly for a moment, looking up at the sky, before the teammates rushed towards him to celebrate. Prasidh Krishna waved towards the packed stands as the tricolour fluttered high. Monday morning at The Oval felt surreal. After…
India skipper Shubman Gill was named India’s ‘Player of the Series’ after the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy series ended in a 2-2 stalemate at The Oval in London on Monday. Gill was the leading run scorer of the five-match series, finishing with a whopping 754 runs in 10 innings at an average of 75.40. He struck as…
India drew the five-match Test series against England 2-2 after beating the host by six runs in the fifth and final Test at the Oval in London on Monday. This was the second consecutive time a Test series between England and India, held on English soil, was ending in a stalemate. The last time India…
Mohammed Siraj has bowled the most overs (181.2) in the ongoing series between India and England and also leads the list of wicket-takers with 20 scalps. Amid growing concerns about the bowler’s workload, India’s bowling coach Morne Morkel revealed that a major reason for the pacer to continue has been his perseverance. “There were conversations…
As Joe Root and Jacob Bethell walked out for the final session, not many expected India to fight back. Until then, the fourth day of the fifth Test looked tilted towards England as Root (105, 152b, 12×4) and Harry Brook (111, 98b, 14×4, 2×6) made batting look easy as the host inched closer to chasing down a massive 374 at The Oval. But 30 minutes into the post-tea session…
England all-rounder Chris Woakes was ruled out of the remainder of the fifth Test against India after sustaining a shoulder injury on the opening day of the match at the Oval in London. A statement from the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) had stated that Woakes would play no further part in the Test…
Joe Root notched up his 39th Test hundred, off 137 balls, during the fourth day of the fifth and final Test between England and India at the Oval on Sunday to become the fourth-highest century-maker in the history of the format. Root surpassed Kumar Sangakkara’s tally of 38 tons, and is now only behind Sachin…
England’s highest successful run chase in Tests came in 2022 when it overhauled a 378-run target in the rescheduled fifth Test against India at Edgbaston in Birmingham. Its second highest chase in the format also came against India, when it hunted down a 371-run target at Headingley in Leeds during the ongoing Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy series….
With India leading by 281 runs at Tea on the third day of the fifth Test at the Oval, England will need to register a record chase when it comes out to bat in the fourth innings in its bid to clinch the series. The Oval in London has historically been a tough venue for…
Shubman Gill ended his Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy series campaign against England with 754 runs in 10 innings—the second-highest run tally registered by an Indian in a Test series. Though Gill had a shot at going past Sunil Gavaskar’s record of 774 runs, the Indian skipper was dismissed for 11 in the second innings of the fifth…
