After Lord’s, Kohli & Co come up with yet another victory of the series in England’s capital city as Root’s men are demolished at The Oval
India captain Virat Kohli urges the crowd to raise its decibel level as his team celebrate an England wicket on the fifth and final day of the fourth Test at The Oval. Pic/Bipin Patel
A menacing Jasprit Bumrah joined forces with a canny Ravindra Jadeja to decimate England by 157 runs in the fourth Test as India took a 2-1 lead in the five-match series, here on Monday.
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Potent bowling attack
The Indian bowling attack was without two of its senior pacers Ishant Sharma and Mohammed Shami but was still potent enough to bowl out England for 210 in 92.1 overs. The hosts were chasing a tough target of 368.
Bumrah (22-9-27-2) and Jadeja (30-11-50-2) hit England with such ferocity that a batsman of Joe Root’s (36 off 78 balls) stature looked dumbfounded at the other end with the kind of distress that his fellow batters were in. Perhaps, that was the reason that India’s man-of-the-moment Shardul Thakur’s (8-1-22-2) off-cutter was dragged back onto the stumps by Root, signalling the end of English resistance.
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Umesh Yadav (18.2-2-60-3) then completed the formalities with the second new ball as India won two Test matches in a single series in England after a gap of 35 years. As far as Jadeja was concerned, he answered all the pro-Ashwin backers on his and Virat Kohli’s behalf. He hit the rough created outside the left-hander’s off-stump.
Jadeja on the spot
He started the slide making Haseeb Hameed (63 off 193 balls) pay for his ultra-defensive tactic with a classic left-arm spinner’s dismissal. Then it was Bumrah’s turn to unleash his sharp incoming reverse swinging deliveries with a lethal mix of yorkers for Ollie Pope (2) and Jonny Bairstow (0).
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The No. of matches Jasprit Bumrah took to claim 100 Test wickets. He surpassed Kapil Dev (25 matches) to become the quickest Indian fast bowler
Brief scores
India 191 & 466 beat England 290 & 210 (H Hameed 63, R Burns 50; U Yadav 3-60, J Bumrah 2-27, R Jadeja 2-50, S Thakur 2-22) by 157 runs
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