The Indian team won by 6 runs in the Test match played against England at the Oval Cricket Ground. With this victory, the Indian team drawn the five-match series 2-2. In the match, India had given a target of 374 runs to win in front of England, chasing the English team packed at the score of 367.
Team India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir has praised his team after a memorable victory in the Oval Test match. Gambhir believes that defeat or victory goes on, but his team can never kneel. Gambhir wrote on X, ‘We will win something, some will lose. But we will never surrender. Boys Boys.
Gautam Gambhir was adamant on his strategy to feed an additional batsman in place of a specialist bowler during this entire series, due to which questions were raised on him. Some cricket experts also called it wrong, but Gambhir did not mind. Captain Shubman Gill openly supported his coach after winning the Oval Test.
What did Shubman Gill say about Gautam Gambhir?
Shubman Gill told Sony Sports, “Before this series, Goti Bhai had said that we are a young team, but we have to look at ourselves like a young team, not like a powerful team. Today we showed that we are really a powerful team, which has many possibilities.”
England’s score was 301 for three while chasing the target of 374 runs. Then there was a 195 -run partnership between Harry Brook and Joe Root. It seemed that the match was in his possession. But after this, the pair of famous Krishna and Mohammad Siraj broke the back of the English team. In the second innings of England, Mohammad Siraj took five wickets and the famous Krishna took four wickets.
India had scored only 224 runs in their first innings in this match, in response to which England’s opening pair Ben Docket and Jack Craulie together gave their team a strong start. England’s score in the first innings was 109/1 at one time, but then Mohammad Siraj and the famous Krishna showed amazing and England could only score 247 runs. That is, on the basis of the first innings, England got a lead of just 23 runs.
After this, the Indian batsmen batted strongly in the second innings. Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal scored a brilliant 118 runs. At the same time, nightwatchman Akash Deep (66 runs), Ravindra Jadeja (53 runs) and Washington Sundar (53 runs) also played half -century innings, due to which India’s score reached 396.
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