The Indian team suffered a defeat by 5 wickets in the Test match played at the Handingley Cricket Ground in Leeds at the hands of England. In the match, the Indian team had given England a target of 371 runs to win, which the hosts did not have much trouble in achieving. England’s victory hero opener Ben Docket, who played a brilliant innings of 149 runs, made the match unilateral. Docket also contributed 62 runs to the first innings.
Indian team made this embarrassing record
With the defeat in this match, the Indian team set a shameful record. This was the first time in the Test history of 148 years when a team scored five centuries in the match but that team lost the match. India surpassed the Australian team in terms of this unwanted record. Is. Four Australia batsmen scored a century in the Melbourne Test against England in 1928-29, but still the Kangaroo team lost the match.
Let us know that in the first innings from India in the Leeds Test match, Yashasvi Jaiswal (101 runs), Shubman Gill (147) and Rishabh Pant (134) scored centuries. At the same time, Rishabh Pant (118 runs) managed to score a century in the second innings as well. KL Rahul (137 runs) also played a century in the second innings from India.
This was the second most successful chase of the England team in the history of Test cricket. Also, this was the second largest chase against the Indian team. England’s most successful chase in Test cricket has been against India. In the Edgbaston Test in 2022, England chased a target of 378 runs.
This has happened for the third time in Test cricket when more than 350 targets were chased at the Headingley Cricket Ground in Leeds. If seen, 835 runs were scored in this match for India by mixing both innings (also). Despite the defeat in the Test match, these are the fourth highest run scored by a team. In this case, England team is first, Pakistani team is second and New Zealand team is at number three.
Despite the defeat, the most run by a team
861 England vs Australia, Headingley 1948
847 Pak vs England, Rawalpindi 2022
837 New Zealand vs England, Trent Bridge 2022
835 India vs England, Headingley 2025