The fifth and last Test of the Tendulkar-Anderson Trophy will be played between India and England from July 31. The match will be played at the Oval Stadium in London, for which both teams have reached London. India played 15 Tests here and only won 2. However, the last win was only in 2021.
If India wins the Oval Test, the Team series will do exactly 2-2. If the match is drawn or England wins, the series will also go to the home team. In the fifth Test, Indian captain Shubhman Gill also has a chance to make 3 big records.
Record of Oval Stadium in the story …
India won 2 Tests at Oval India played their first Test at the Oval Stadium in London in 1936, in which the team lost by 9 wickets. It took 35 years to win the first Test on the field. In 1971, under the captaincy of Ajit Wadekar, India beat England by 4 wickets.
After 1971, India drew 5 Tests at Oval, while 3 defeated. Under Virat Kohli's captaincy in the 5th, the team won the second win on the ground. He won the team by 157 runs. India played 14 Tests against England on the ground, winning 2 and facing 5 defeats. During this period, 7 matches were also drawn.
The WTC final was also lost here India played the last Test at Oval against Australia in 2023. It was the final of the World Test Championship (WTC), in which India lost by 209 runs. Rohit Sharma was the captain of Team India, who said goodbye to the format before the team was announced for the series against England.
Australia won the trophy by beating India in the final of the World Test Championship (WTC) 2023 at Oval.
England won 43% test at Oval Stadium England have played 106 Tests at Oval Stadium. The team has won 45 and suffered only 24 defeats. There were also 37 matches draws during this period. However, England are also all out for 52 runs here. In 1948, the team was out on the score against Australia. In 1971, the team was all out for 101 against India.
India scored more than 500 runs 3 times at Oval India have scored more than 500 runs at Oval Stadium three times, three times the match was draw. India's highest score here is 664 runs, which team scored against England in 2007. In 2021, India won the match by scoring 466 runs in their second innings.
England scored 903 runs on the field, which team scored against Australia in 1938. The team has scored more than 590 runs against India twice. England won one match, while the other was a draw. England have scored more than 500 runs in 190 innings here.
First batting team won 37% match So far 107 Tests have been played at Oval. He won the first batting team in 37% ie 40 matches. He won the bowling team in 30 matches. There were 37 matches draw here. Since 2011, there have been 14 Tests at Oval, with only 1 match draw. He won the bowling team first in the eighth and the first bowling team in the fifth. In this case, the team can choose to bat first by winning the toss.
Auspicious 3 large records can make …
1. The highest run made by Indian in a series Shubhman Gill has scored 722 runs in 4 Tests in the series. With 53 runs in the last Test, he will become the highest scorer in the series. In this case, he will leave Sunil Gavaskar behind, whose name is 774 runs. Gavaskar made this record against the West Indies in 1971.
2. Captain who scored the highest runs in the series By scoring 89 runs in the last match, Shubhman will also become the highest run captain in the Test series. In this case, he will overtake Australia's Don Bradman, who scored 810 against England in 1936.
Gill will be the highest scorer in a series with the scoring 11 runs. In this case, he will overtake Sunil Gavaskar, who scored 732 against the West Indies in 1978.
3. Captain who scored the highest century in a series Shubhman Gill has scored 4 centuries in this series. Gill is currently on the equalizer of Don Bradman and Sunil Gavaskar among the captains who are currently scoring the highest century in a Test series. He will reach the peak of this record as soon as he scored one more century in the last match. If Gill hit two centuries, he will also become the highest scorer in a series.
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