The Indian team won by 6 runs in the Oval Test match against England. In the match, England had a target of 374 runs to win to win, but his entire team was reduced to 367 runs in their second innings in the first session of the last day. This was the shortest Test winning Test in terms of India’s runs. With this victory, the Indian team equalized the Test series 2-2.
In the victory of the Indian team, ‘Player of the Match’ Mohammad Siraj played an important role, who took five wickets in the second innings. Famous Krishna famous Krishna also played Mohammad Siraj well and dismissed four players in the second innings. Siraj and Krishna took four wickets each in the first innings as well. That is, in the match, Siraj took 9 and Krishna took 8 wickets. Akash Deep got the remaining two wickets.
See, the result of this match could have come out on the fourth day (August 4), but due to rain on the fourth day, a game of 10.2 overs could be done in the third session. By the time the rain touched, it was too late. In such a situation, the fourth day game had to be finished before time. Now on the fifth day, England needed 35 runs to win, while India needed 4 wickets.
This was the fifth day game
In the fifth day game, Mohammad Siraj first caught Jamie Smith behind the wicket. Then he lbw Jamie Overn. After this, the famous Krishna blew up the gills of Josh Tong. When England needed 17 runs to win, the injured Chris Woakes landed for batting. Gus Atkinson and Vox together added 10 runs. Now England had to score seven runs to win. On the first ball of the 86th over, Siraj ensured India’s victory by dismissing Atkinson.
Let us tell you that both teams had landed with four changes in this match. English captain Ben Stokes did not become a part of this match due to shoulder injury. In the absence of Stokes, the English team was captained by Oli Pope. Jofra Archer, Bridan Cars and Liam Dawson also did not become part of the match. On the other hand, India gave Karun Nair, Akash Deep, the famous Krishna and Dhruv Jurael a chance. Rishabh Pant, Jaspreet Bumrah, Anshul Kamboj and Shardul Thakur were not part of this match.
Brief score of match
India- First Innings- 223, Second Innings- 396
Target: 374
England- First Innings- 247, Second Innings- 367
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