The Indian team lost by 5 wickets in the Test match played against England at Leeds’s Handingley Cricket Ground. In this match, England got a target of 371 runs to win, which he achieved in the last session of the last day of the match (24 June). With this victory, hosts England have taken a 1-0 lead in the five-match Test series. The second Test match of the series will be played in Edgbaston from July 2
The Indian team led by Shubman Gill could win in the Leeds Test match, but lost many opportunities that made the match in England. What can be the sad thing that India lost this match despite 4 batsmen scoring centuries. A batsman scored a century in both innings. That is, India scored a total of 5 centuries in this match.
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Fierce catchs: The biggest reason for the defeat in this match was the poor fielding of the Indian team. Indian players left six catches in the first innings and two in the second innings. Yashasvi Jaiswal drove the maximum 4 catches. At the same time, Ravindra Jadeja, Rishabh Pant, Sai Sudarshan and Jaspreet Bumrah also could not catch each catch.
In the first innings, Ben Docket received a living on a personal score of 11 runs twice in the first innings. Due to these two lives, Docks managed to score 62 runs. At the same time, Ben Docket Catch on 97 runs in the second innings and he scored 149 runs. In the first innings, Oli Pope got a creature on a score of 60 runs and scored 160 runs. At the same time, in the first innings, Harry Brook’s catch was caught for 82 runs, after which he added 17 more runs. When Brook was on 0 runs at the beginning of his innings, he would be dismissed by Bumrah, but he was called a ball no-ball. In the second innings, Jamie Smith and Jack Caruli also got a living beings.
Lower order flop show: The Indian team’s top -order batsmen performed well in this match. Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill and KL Rahul scored one century each, while Rishabh Pant scored centuries in both innings. If seen, India scored 786 runs (excluding extra) in this match, out of which 691 runs came out of these four bat. While the remaining seven players could add only 105 runs. 49 runs were added to India’s account as an additional.
This is to say that the lower order batsmen of India did not contribute relatively. In the first innings, India’s last 7 wickets fell seven wickets for 41 runs. While in the second innings, six wickets fell for 31 runs. For this reason, the Indian team could not set a big score against England.
Team selection flaws: In this match, the Indian team landed with 4 specialist fast bowlers. These bets also showed upside down in this match for India. In the match, the lack of Chinaman Kuldeep Yadav was clearly seen. Kuldeep has the ability to rotate the ball on any pitch and he could have been overwhelming on the English batsmen. If Kuldeep had played, Ravindra Jadeja would also get good support. The Indian team could also give left -arm fast bowler Arshdeep Singh a chance in this match instead of famous Krishna or Mohammad Siraj. Due to the presence of Arshdeep, there was newness in the pace attack.
Bad Captaincy: Shubman Gill’s captaincy in this match did not look as special, whose first Test match as captain. Shubman could not rotate the bowlers properly and did not even use them well. Shardul Thakur threw only 6 overs in the first innings, while he was the lowest in the second innings. In the second innings, when the opening pair of Ben Docket and Caruli had frozen, Team India’s field setting looked quite defensive.
More dependence on Bumrah: In this match, one reason for the Indian team defeat was poor bowling. Except Jasprit Bumrah, the rest of the bowlers looked ineffective. Bumrah took 5 wickets in the first innings, while in the second innings he did not get a wicket but his bowling was strict. The famous Krishna scored runs in both innings at an economy rate of more than 6. At the same time, the bowling of Mohammad Siraj and Ravindra Jadeja did not see sharpness.