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Bashir, who was batting on 13 off 28 balls, faced the penultimate ball of the 46th over when Jadeja rattled his off-stump.
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Shubman Gill and Dhruv Jurel's unbeaten 72-run stand took India across the finishing line during the tricky chase of 192 runs.
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Currently, England holds a lead of 319 runs over India, with Jaiswal stabilizing the innings and the pitch posing minimal challenges.
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England's final three wickets fell for just six runs in 17 balls, with Ravindra Jadeja taking two of them, finishing as India's standout bowler with figures of 4-67.
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Root tapped into his prime form to pull England back into the game after debutant pacer Akash Deep provided India with a dream start.
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Jasprit Bumrah bowled a jaffa to rattle the stumps of the first match's hero Ollie Pope who got dismissed for 23 runs in the 28th over of England's first innings of the second test match being played in Visakhapatnam.
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Sweeps and reverse sweeps on the other hand have emerged as a strong weapon for England batters against the champion Indian spinners who were at the receiving end in the second innings of Hyderabad Test.
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Root stepped in the field needing mere 10 runs to outshine Sachin Tendulkar's record of 2,535 runs in 32 matches against England.
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Lavishing praise on Root, Kohli told Star Sports, "Joe, he is great all-round the way he plays reverse slap I would like to take that shot."
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There were useful knocks by Jonny Bairstow (33) and captain Jos Buttler (43), but they failed to kick on against the 2019 finalists, who were led by stand-in captain Tom Latham.
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Birmingham: Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow slammed unbeaten fifties to lead England’s mammoth chase of 378 against India on day four of rescheduled fifth Test at Edgbaston on Monday. At stumps, the hosts were 259/3 in 57 overs, needing just 119 on a sold-out final day to level the five-match series being played for the […]
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Birmingham: A superb century by Ravindra Jadeja and late blitz by stand-in captain Jasprit Bumrah took India to a total of 416 on Day 2 in the first innings of the fifth and final Test against England here at Birmingham on Saturday. At the time of lunch, England’s score read 16/1, with Zak Crawley (7) […]
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London: Joe Root finished unbeaten on 115 and also crossed the 10,000-run mark in the longest format of the game as England wrapped a five-wicket victory over New Zealand on day four of the opening Test at Lord’s on Sunday. With Ben Foakes (32 not out) playing an important role from the other end, Root […]
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London: Ben Stokes was appointed as captain of England’s Test cricket team on Thursday, taking on the high-pressure role just a few months after returning from a long spell away from the game to protect his mental health. The all-rounder was the only credible option to replace Joe Root, who quit his position — which […]
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Dubai: Seasoned India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin was on Tuesday shortlisted as one of the four nominees for the ICC Test Cricketer of the year award. The 35-year-old from Chennai snapped 52 wickets from eight Tests at an average of 16.23 and also contributed 337 runs with the bat at 28.08 with one century in the […]
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Brisbane: Joe Root set a record for most runs in a calendar year by an England test batter and shared an unbroken 159-run stand with Dawid Malan on Friday to lead a rally in the Ashes series opener against Australia. Root was unbeaten on 86 and Malan was 80 not out when England reached 220-2 […]
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Manchester: The fifth Test between India and England was cancelled on Friday amid a chaotic turn of events during which the host board’s statement on the visitors changed from “unable to field a team and will instead forfeit the match” to “regrettably unable to field a team”. The development came after the touring side was […]
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London: India fought their way back on the second day of the fourth Test at The Oval to keep at England’s heels by first restricting host to a lead of 99 and then gnawing at it with an unbeaten 43-run stand between opening batsmen KL Rahul (batting 22) and Rohit Sharma (batting 20). India still […]
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England, who lost two wickets off successive balls immediately after tea to Mohammed Siraj (2/34), were reduced to 23 for two before Root and opener Rory Burns (49) added 85 for the third wicket to stabilise the innings
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India were 52 for one chasing a target of 209 but Root felt that England still had a chance as the pitch was offering assistance to fast bowlers.