The last match of Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy 2025 between India and England was played at the Oval Cricket Ground in London, in which the visiting team registered a thrilling win by 6 runs. With this victory, the Indian team drawn the five-match Test series 2-2. The Indian team could not win the series. But the biggest thing is that through this tour, the young brigade established itself as a strong, confident and combative team.
After Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma retired from Test cricket, this was the first series in the biggest format of the Indian team. Even in the absence of these two veterans, the passion that the Indian team showed on the field will be remembered for a long time. The lack of both veterans did not feel as much. Some positive points came out from the Test series for the Indian team ..,
Shubhman’s captaincy showed strength: Shubman Gill impressed everyone in his first Test series as a captain. Shubman’s captaincy overall was good. Whether it is to take review, fielding decoration or showing aggression in captaincy, Gill showed courage on every front. Shubman will be better as captain over time. The biggest victory for Shubman was that he filled the thinking in this youth team to not give up. The pressure of the captaincy was not seen at all in Shubman’s batting and he was the highest run -scorer in this series. Shubman scored 754 runs at an average of 75.40, including four centuries.
India’s bowling strong even without Bumrah: Jasprit Bumrah did not play two matches in this series under the workload management. He first missed Edgbaston Test match, where the Indian team won by 336 runs. After this, Bumrah was not even part of the Oval Test match, where the Indian team won the historic victory. In the two matches where Bumrah did not play, the rest of the fast bowlers showed strength in his absence. Mohammad Siraj took five wickets in the innings in the first Edgbaston Test match. Then he also opened ‘Paw’ in the Oval Test match. During this, Akash Deep and the famous Krishna played Mohammad Siraj well. Akash Deep took 10 wickets in Edgbaston Test. At the same time, the famous named 8 wickets in the Oval Test match. The Indian team has told that they are not dependent on any one bowler, everyone plays their own role well.
Spin all -rounders shown glow amid conflict: The contribution of all -round players like Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar in this magnificent performance of the Indian team cannot be denied at all. Both played important innings with the bat and took some wickets. Jadeja had a great performance with the bat and scored 516 runs at an average of 86.00, including 1 century and 5 half -centuries. The performance of Sundar and Jadeja’s pair with the bat in the Manchester Test was worth it. In that test, both these players scored an unbeaten century, due to which India was successful in drawing the match. Jadeja is in the last stage of his Test career, but Washington beautiful is going to prove to be a horse of a long race.
This Test series against England has shown that India now has a young core group not only a bench strength, but also a win in Test cricket. Even though this series has been a draw, the Indian team proved itself in England. The Indian team has again told that they can not only fight, but can also win on foreign grounds…
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