4th Test - Day 2 Stumps
Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul take India to stumps on 43/0, trailing England by 56.
Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul take India to stumps on 43/0, trailing England by 56.
Rohit Sharma’s Landmark Century Leaves India Well Placed Despite Ollie Robinson’s Double
Rohit Sharma scored his first Test century outside India before England’s Ollie Robinson took two wickets on a day of fluctuating fortunes at Oval.
India’s batting average in this series…
1-2 (opening): Ave 45.53
3-6 (middle): Ave 23.85
7-11 (lower): Ave 22.25
Ravindra Jadeja career no-balls (51*) in international cricket…
in Tests: 35*
in ODIs: 14
in T20Is: 2
India’s fifty-plus score this series (15)
Openers: 5 fifties+ (R Sharma 127, 83, 59 & KL Rahul 129 & 84)
3 to 6: 5 fifties (Pujara 91 & 61, Kohli 55 & 50, Rahane 61)
7 to 11: 5 fifties (Thakur 60, 57, Jadeja 56, Pant 50, Mohd Shami 56*)
England’s target 368
Only nine Test sides in cricket history have won chasing 368 or more.
England has never done it and in England, the only side to achieve this is Australia 406/4 at Leeds on 27 July 1948.
Led by Rohit Sharma and a superb Shardul, India produce a batting performance that makes them clear favourites
UPDATE - Rohit Sharma and Cheteshwar Pujara will not take the field. Rohit has discomfort in his left knee while Pujara has pain in his left ankle. The BCCI Medical Team is assessing them.
Indians to Part of Most Century Partership for 7th wicket in Away tests :-
3 Times : Sachin Tendulkar
2 Times : MS Dhoni
2 Times : KS More
2 Times : Prabhakar
2 Times : RISHABH PANT*
2 Times : SHARDUL THAKUR*
1st innings : Virat Kohli
2nd innings: Chris Woakes
3rd innings: Rishabh Pant
4th innings: Rory Burns
It’s the first time ever in Test cricket that a batsman has been dismissed for 50 in each of the four innings of a Test!
Shardul Thakur (57 & 50*) has now become the only sixth batsman in Test history to make fifty-plus scores in each innings of a Test match while batting at #8.
Two other Indians Harbhajan Singh and Wriddiman Saha have also managed to do this.
India limit England to just 54 runs in the morning session while taking two wickets. Is an England win off the cards?
Ravi Shastri, Bharat Arun and R Sridhar have received positive PCR tests for Covid-19. They will all miss the final ENGvIND Test at Old Trafford.
India beat England by 157 runs at The Oval to take a 2-1 series lead
Virat Kohli-led India bowled England out for 210 to win The Oval Test by 157 runs and take a 2-1 series in the five-match series. India, with just one game remaining, cannot lose the series.
England began the final day at 77/0, needing 291 runs to win. Openers Haseeb Hameed and Rory Burns got to their fifties but once they were dismissed, it was all downhill for England. In the second session, England lost four wickets for six runs en route to losing 6 for just 62 runs. Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja, two wickets each, were the wreckers-in-chief in that afternoon session, cleaning up England’s middle-order with a fuss. At the end, it was Umesh Yadav’s three-for that cleaned up India’s tail and sealed a famous win for India. Amidst all this, let’s not forget Shardul Thakur’s brace, which included the all-important scalps of Burns and Joe Root.