The day for the England cricket team started with James Anderson, the star fast bowler of the team, making his name in the history books by becoming the first fast bowler to claim 700 test wickets. But their celebration ended very soon. It took only 481 overs for India to ball out England in their second innings and win the test match by an innings and 64 runs in less than three days to win the series by 4-1.
India’s series victory was questionable after the bazballers of the England cricket team rewrote the record books by beating India in the series opener match in Hyderabad with a lead of 190 runs in the first innings.
The Indian cricket team was missing the services of Mohammed Shami and Rishabh Pant, and for personal reasons, Virat Kohli was also out of the series. KL Rahul also hurt his quarters in the first test and never returned in the series. Ravindra Jadeja also missed the second test match because of a hamstring injury. Even Ravichandran Ashwin had to fly back home in the middle of the third test match to attend to his ailing method.
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The hyperactive captaincy of Ben Stokes made the calm and collective nature of Rohit Sharma appear laid back. But Rohit Sharma and team India fought back and found heroes in every test match. Jaspreet Bumrah was the star player in Vizag he and Ravindra Jadeja were the star players in Rajkot Dhruv Jurail in Ranchi, and both Ashwin and Kuldeep Yadav here in Himachal Pradesh. The youngster of the Indian Cricket Team, Yashasvi Jaiswal, played very well throughout the series, with a record-breaking record-breaking 712 runs in 5 test matches.
Returning to what happened on Saturday in Dharamshala, it didn’t take long for the England cricket team to take the final 2 wickets, but the 259-run lead was always going to be a vast mountain to climb. In the second innings of England, the betters of the team tried to survive against the spinners of team India, but once again they failed, even though the captain of the England cricket team, Ben Stokes, scored only two runs after losing his wicket to Ashwin.
With Rohit Sharma not taking the field because of a stiff back, Bumrah led the team in the middle, besides opening the bowling alongside Ashwin. Playing his 100th test, Ravichandran Ashwin again got the better of England opener Ben Duckett.
In the post-lunch session, Ashwin took the wicket of Ben Fokes and completed his 36th five-wicket haul, which is the most by an Indian. Joe Root was the only England batsman who tried to take his time and play the situation, but eventually, lost his wicked when he desperately attempted to reach his century.
