India vs England, England crushed the Indian cricket team at home. The Indian batsman, who was chasing a score mountain of 420 runs was piled up just for 192 runs. Thanks to the excellent performance of captain Joe Root and the bowlers, England inflicted a humiliating defeat on India in the Chennai Test. Defeated by 227 runs in the first Test match to take a 1-0 lead in the four-match series.
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In the match played in Chennai, England won the toss and elected to bat first, which was proved right by the brilliant batting of the captain Joe Root. The captain scored the amazing double century against India and lead the team to a total of 578 runs, including 87 by Dom Sibley and 82 by Ben Stokes.
For India, Ravi Chandran Eshwan and Jaspreet Bumrah took three wickets each while Ishant Sharma and Shahbaz Nadeem took two wickets each.
In reply, India lost four wickets for 73 runs, but thanks to the half-centuries of Chattiswar Pujara, Rishabh Pant, and Washington Sundar, India managed to score 337 runs. Pant scored 91, Sundar 85, and Pujara 73 runs. Dome Base was the most successful bowler for England with 4 wickets. Despite taking the lead, England did not follow on and preferred to bat in the second innings.
In the second innings, the entire English team piled up 178 runs in an attempt to bat fast, Root scored 40 runs and remained the most successful batsman while Ashwin took 6 wickets. The Indian team lost the services of Rohit Sharma before the end of the fourth day. Became the second wicket of a leach.
After losing two wickets for 58 runs, captain Virat Kohli came to the aid of Shabman Gul and the two together took the score to 92. Gul scored a half-century while maintaining his excellent form. There was a strong appeal of LBW against him which was rejected by the field umpire and despite the review the umpires survived the call.
The umpires were not needed on the next ball and Anderson’s beautiful in-swing scattered Shabman Gul’s wickets. The Indian team had not even recovered from the loss when Anderson bowled Rahane on another beautiful ball after two balls. Australia’s hero Pant could not play a big innings in the second innings and in front of Anderson’s experience he looked helpless when the wicket-keeper batsman could not understand a slow ball and the fielder standing on the short cover. He was caught while Sundar started walking without opening his account.
After losing 6 wickets, Ashwin came to the aid of captain Kohli and both added 54 runs for the seventh wicket. Ashwin was dismissed for 9 runs. Kohli was bowled by Ben Stokes . The entire Indian team was bowled out for 192 in the second innings and England won by 227 runs to take a 1-0 lead in the series. Double century scorer Joe Root Declared the best player of the series.
Former England captain Kevin Pietersen made fun of the Indian team’s 227-run defeat against England in the first Test at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Tuesday, after which the visitors went 0-1 in a four-match series. Has taken the lead. India had recently chased down 328 runs in the fourth Test against Australia at Gabba, Brisbane. The Indian team became the first team to beat Australia in the field since the West Indies in 1988 and won four Tests. The series was named after 1-2.
Taking advantage of the occasion, 40-year-old Kevin Pietersen sent a tweet in Hindi in which he recalled India’s victory in the Test series in Australia.
Patterson tweeted, “Indians, remember I warned you not to celebrate so much after defeating Australia at home.”
