In the Oval Test, Indian fast bowler Mohammad Siraj was the first ball of the 295th over of this match, the ball he bowled and India won India. The match became so exciting and memorable forever because it was not decided whose party would result in the 294 overs played before.
India and England could have won the match. It was also possible that this cricket could only be the third tie in history. There were 12 Moments in the match that turned the balance of the match into favor of India and England. Let us look at all of these 12 dramatic events one by one.
12 Turning Point of Oval Test …
1. India lost the toss, the wicket fell soon; Fifty of Karun Nair's Fifty On Thursday, India had a bad start at Oval, London. The team lost the fifth consecutive toss in the series and its 15th consecutive toss in international cricket. India had to bat on Oval's swinging pitch, and the team lost 5 wickets in just 123 runs.
Team India could not win a single toss in the series. England also won the toss in the fifth match, causing India to bat on a bowler-friendly pitch.
Karun Nair, who was batting in fifth, then took over the innings and crossed the team by 200 runs. However, as soon as he was out, the team was all out for 224 runs. The entire Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy was the lowest score of any team in the first innings. The first 358 runs was the lowest score.
2. The fast participation of Ducket-Crowley, it seemed that India would be far behind in the match After limiting India to a low score in the first innings, England started fast. Ben Ducket and Zack Crowley crossed the team for 90 in the 13th over. Even after the wicket of the ducket, Crowley batted fast and hit a fifty. England lost only 1 wicket by 128 runs, here it seemed that England would have fully dominated the match.
3. Pacers prevent England from taking a big lead The famous Krishna caught Crowley in the first innings and made India a success. England lost only 5 wickets for 215 runs. Harry Brook was batting fast from one end. Here Mohammad Siraj and Famous the team returned. The two took 5 wickets for the next 33 runs and England all out for 247 runs. England were only able to get a 23-run lead due to the strong bowling of Siraj-Siddha.
4. Jaiswal's Century and Night Watchman Fifty Fifty India started carefully in the second innings, but on the second day of the match, KL Rahul and Sai Sudarshan were out. The team lost 2 wickets for 70 runs, here bowler Akashdeep came to bat as a Knight Watchman. On the third day of the match, the pitch became helpful for batting.
On the third day, Yashwashi batted cautiously, Akashdeep also remained stable. He played a shot freely and scored the first half of his career. Yashwashi also scored a fifty with him. Both crossed the team by 150 runs and shared 107 runs.
5. India's mini beats in the second innings After stopping England from getting a big lead in the first innings, India scored 177 for two in their second innings. Knightwatchman Akashdeep scored half a century and opener Yashwashi Jaiswal was moving towards the century.
Here, Akashdeep lost his wicket against Jamie Overton for 66 runs. India lost three more wickets in the next 12 overs and scored 229 for five. Then India's lead was just 206 runs. Team India was able to make a comeback in England with this mini -beating.
India lost 3 important wickets within 53 runs. With the out of Akashdeep, Shubhman Gill and Karun Nair, the pressure on India increased.
6. Jadeja-Sunder raised India's lead Yashwashi Jaiswal scored a century, but when he was out for 118 runs, India's lead was still 250 runs. The pitch was getting better for batting and the target of about 300 runs for the English team would have been very easy. Dhruv Jurel was playing well, but he too was dismissed for 34 runs.
After 6 wickets, Ravindra Jadeja and then Washington Sundar scored half a century and made India's lead in a strong position in the match. Jadeja scored 53 off 77 balls with 5 fours. However, Sundar scored 53 off 46 balls with 4 fours and six sixes. Sundar added 39 runs for the last wicket with the famous. The run eventually proved crucial for India.
7. Route and Brook's partnership helped to dominate England England started their second innings on the third day. The team scored 50 runs quickly, but Czech Crowley was out in the last over of the day. On the fourth day, the team lost 3 wickets for 106 runs. Here Joe Root and Harry Brook handle the innings. Together, the team crossed the 300 -run figure. Both Brook and Root scored a century and made India out of the match almost.
Harry Brook and Joe Root shared 195 runs. This partnership brought the host team very close to the victory.
8. Brooke's weak shot and match turned to India England lost only 3 wickets up to 300 runs. Brook scored 2 boundaries in one over of Akashdeep, though he went to play a big shot and was caught out. India tried to return to the match with this wicket. However, Route and Jacob Bethel did not allow the team to fall for the next 7 overs.
Harry Brook was out before the team leads to victory. After its wicket, India started to control the match.
In the 71st over, Jacob Bethel went on to play big shots again and bowled. From here the pace went to the party of India. After 2 overs, Joe Root, who already scored a century, was also a coat bhinded out. The team lost 6 wickets for 337 runs and the pace went completely to India.
Jacob Bethel was bowled by 5 runs. The famous Krishna sent him a pavilion. With this wicket, the Momentum of the match went to India.
9. The match could not end in four days due to the rain The first four matches of this series lasted five days. The match was to be completed in just four days. There are 90 overs in one day but only 62.3 overs were played on the fourth day and the test match reached the fifth day. Due to rain and low light, on the fourth day the game had to be stopped an hour before the scheduled time.
After the fourth day's game ended, the players from both teams returned to the pavilion. On the fourth day, England lost 6 wickets.
On the fourth day, the last 90 minute game could not be played due to rain.
10. England needed 35 runs and Hela hit two fours in two balls At the beginning of the fifth day, England needed 35 runs to win and India needed 4 wickets to win. The famous came to throw the first over of the day and hit the overt with two fours on the first two balls. Now England needed only 27 runs.
The first 2 balls of the fifth day hit Jamie Overt with 2 boundaries. England needed only 27 runs after this boundary.
11. Mia's magic worked again and India got close to victory Mohammad Siraj reimbursed two fours on the famous ball in the next over. On the third ball of his first over of the day, he caught the last specialist Better Jamie Smith of England by Dhruv Jurelle behind the wicket. Before England exit the blow, Siraj made LBW out of Overton in his next over. When umpire Dharmasena gave it out, the overt was taken DRS. But the review did not work and he was out at the umpire's call. Shortly afterwards, the famous Josh Tung (0) was dismissed and conquered India.
Mohammad Siraj dominated India with 2 wickets in 2 overs. He sent Jamie Overton and Jamie Smith the pavilion.
12. Chris Walks came to bat with one hand England fast bowler Chris Walks suffered a shoulder injury while fielding in India's first innings. The England Cricket Board also announced that Vox will no longer participate in the match. But when England's ninth wicket fell and the team was only 17 runs away from the win, Vox put his broken hand in a sweater and went to bat with one hand.
Chris Walks came to bat with a bandage in one hand and a bat in the other. He did not come to bat in the first innings.
Vox remained on the crease for the next 13 balls. Atkinson was saving him from strike and all the balls played and tried to hit big shots. He also hit a six on Siraj's ball and kept Vox away from the strike by taking a run on the last ball in two consecutive overs.
Chris Vox is running with an injured hand. He stood on a non-striker end for 13 balls.
Now England needed only 7 runs to win. Mohammad Siraj then threw a total of 295th over of the entire Test match and 86th over of England's second innings. He gave India a historic win by 6 runs by bowling Atkinson. This is India's lowest margin in terms of run in Test cricket. With this, the Indian youth team did the series 2-2 in England.
On the first ball of the over, Mohammad Siraj won India by bold out Gas Atkinson. Atkinson was dismissed for 17.
Gus Atkins tried to lead England to the win, but he was out as the team's 10th wicket.
Mohammad Siraj took 5 wickets in the second innings. He became the player of the match. He took 4 wickets in the first innings.
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