- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR106.5 what was that? The fielders had stayed back, but Jaiswal jumps out to the fifth ball of the over looking to clear the fielders. A bit of a mistake from him. The shot would make sense had the field come up. There were many singles on offer here, but he tried to take the boundary riders on. All he manages is a mis-hit, deep cover runs in, takes the catch. Huge wicket 383/817.3 deflected to leg slip, Bashir strikes on debut! Just a hint of turn and flicked around the corner straight to Pope, easy as you like. England have their opening after a quiet start. Bashir roars in celebration after foxing India's captain, what a moment for the 20-year-old - just his 11th wicket in first-class cricket 40/128.5 finds the edge again, and Foakes swallows this! Gill worked over by Anderson in that short spell and now he's heading off. Fifth time he's fallen to England's veteran swinger. Searching line in the channel and it nibbled away to clip the bat, sizeable deflection that was heading between keeper and slip - but Foakes makes no mistake. Test wicket No. 691 for Anderson 89/250.4 stays low, and Foakes snaffles the edge! Up goes the finger from Chris Gaffaney and another India batter goes after a start. Iyer was looking to cut, got a clear bottom edge through to the keeper, who did tremendously well to stay down and hold on to the deflection 179/371.1 the topspin on the ball has got him. Patidar must be thinking he has defended this well, but the ball bounces and races towards his wicket, and Patidar can't stop it. It has hit him high on the bat as he defends 249/485.3 rocks back to cut, slashed straight to backward point! Bashir has a second on debut, England chip out another as the day draws towards a close. Axar looks guilty as a school child caught with his hand in the cookie jar. An indulgent shot, failed to account for Bashir's bounce and keep the ball down, Rehan gobbles up the catch with glee 301/590.6 slapped to backward point, another gimme! The ball was short and wide but the execution poor. Bashir repays the favour for Rehan, stooping to take low catch reverse-cup. He looks relieved, at the end of a long day, while Rehan beams with delight. Bharat trudges off with just five minutes left until the close 330/6100.3 oh that is a lovely delivery. He has been given caught at the wicket but Ashwin has reviewed it immediately. Even if this is pad, it will be close to being lbw. Oh what a lovely delivery first of all. Wobble seam. Leaves him instead of coming in. Squares him up. Takes a faint outside edge onto the thigh pad. Taken by Foakes. A lovely morning of cricket continues 364/7110.5 does the job, jabbed to slip! Rehan gets the ninth wicket for England. Zippy legbreak on fourth stump and Bumrah pushes a little too hard in defence, comes fast off the edge but well held by Root 395/9111.6 round the wicket, fired across the bows, Root holds another fat outside edge! Flew off the shoulder of the bat with Mukesh groping in defence, smartly taken going high to his right. Bashir gets the final wicket to fall and India have been wrapped up just shy of 400 396/10Extras2 (lb 1, nb 1)TOTAL396 all out (112 Overs, RR: 3.53)Fall of wickets: 1-40 (Rohit Sharma, 17.3 ov), 2-89 (Shubman Gill, 28.5 ov), 3-179 (Shreyas Iyer, 50.4 ov), 4-249 (Rajat Patidar, 71.1 ov), 5-301 (Axar Patel, 85.3 ov), 6-330 (Srikar Bharat, 90.6 ov), 7-364 (Ravichandran Ashwin, 100.3 ov), 8-383 (Yashasvi Jaiswal, 106.5 ov), 9-395 (Jasprit Bumrah, 110.5 ov), 10-396 (Mukesh Kumar, 111.6 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB JM Anderson 25 4 47 3 1.88 0 1 JE Root 14 0 71 0 5.07 0 0 TW Hartley 18 2 74 1 4.11 0 0 Shoaib Bashir 38 1 138 3 3.63 0 0 Rehan Ahmed 17 2 65 3 3.82 0 0
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR22.3 bit of a hack, brilliantly held! India get the breakthrough they needed. Crawley had clearly set himself to try and dominate Axar from the off but is beaten by some grip and bounce as he comes down again. Skewed high over backward point, it's a really tough chance - but Iyer makes it look straightforward, diving to take the ball as it descends over his left shoulder 114/210.2 finally India on the board. Lovely bowling. Superb dip on this, makes sure Duckett is not to its pitch when he defends. Turns and takes the shoulder of the bat and lobs to silly point. Patidar on the board too. Lovely seam position, lovely revs, and then turn and bounce 59/127.5 cleaned up! BOOM-rah strikes! Emphatically yorked, two stumps out of the ground, India rallying around their fast-bowling kingpin. Reverse-swinging into the base of middle and leg, Pope is completely done and plays over it. India go bang-bang-bang to drag the game back their way. Fifth time Pope has gone to Bumrah in Tests 136/425.5 reverse, edged, gone! Bumrah gets Root for the eighth time in Tests... Make that 120 for 3, Pradeep. Excellent bowling from India's premier seamer. Pulled Root this way and that with the reversing ball. Could have left this on line but he wasn't sure if it was going to come back in or leave him. Found out the hard way 123/335.4 Bumrah has one more. He has mixed inswingers and outswingers superbly here. And there is not much movement, just some shape. Bumrah has seen Bairstow is staying inside the line to avoid being lbw to the inswinger, so he mixes in a wide length ball. Bairstow pushes at it away from the body. Gets the edge. Gill takes the catch at first slip. Bumrah to Bairstow since tea: 10 balls, 0 runs, and out 159/549.2 magic! Straight through and bowled 'im! Stokes drops his bat in despair... As if to say, 'what could I do?' Seaming back in and it stays down,
beats Stokes past the outside edgeslides under the toe of the bat and flattens off stump. Just two balls for the trump card to come up trumps 229/838.2 timbaaaaah. Really slow in the air. Foakes defends for the turn, but it doesn't turn as much as he expects. Beaten on the outside edge, and the off stump is pegged back. Pitches just outside off, turns in, but not as much as Foakes has budgeted for 172/642.3 and this is what happens when you are winning. A long hop pulled straight to midwicket. Not a straightforward catch but still. Toe-ends the pull as this has stayed low, and Gill times his jump perfectly to get both hands on this, and then catches the rebound comfortably 182/751.2 pitch-up ball nicked to slip, Bumrah has five! He said that Bazball might help him get wickets... Hartley did a decent job of holding up an end, but the innings is collapsing around him. Full on off stump, goes for the drive and Gill snaffles another at first slip 234/955.5 pinned him in front, six for Jasball! Up goes the finger and Anderson isn't going to bother wasting time on a review. Full length and nipping in past the bat to hit him on the back knee roll in front of middle and leg. Salmon and trout; all over, red rover 253/10Extras9 (b 7, lb 1, nb 1)TOTAL253 all out (55.5 Overs, RR: 4.53)Fall of wickets: 1-59 (Ben Duckett, 10.2 ov), 2-114 (Zak Crawley, 22.3 ov), 3-123 (Joe Root, 25.5 ov), 4-136 (Ollie Pope, 27.5 ov), 5-159 (Jonny Bairstow, 35.4 ov), 6-172 (Ben Foakes, 38.2 ov), 7-182 (Rehan Ahmed, 42.3 ov), 8-229 (Ben Stokes, 49.2 ov), 9-234 (Tom Hartley, 51.2 ov), 10-253 (James Anderson, 55.5 ov)Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB JJ Bumrah 15.5 5 45 6 2.84 0 0 Mukesh Kumar 7 1 44 0 6.28 0 1 Kuldeep Yadav 17 1 71 3 4.17 0 0 R Ashwin 12 0 61 0 5.08 0 0 AR Patel 4 0 24 1 6.00 0 0
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR8.3 and Anderson has two. England staying alive. Loose drive from Jaiswal. Wobble-seam ball. Pitched up, inviting the drive, then nipping away a touch, taking the edge on the Jaiswal drive. Pouched low at first slip 30/26.4 timberrrr. What a beauty. Seam movement. Precise amount. Angling in in the air, pitches off, Rohit plays the line, but the ball nips away just enough to beat the outside edge and knocks back the off pole 29/155.6 goes for the reverse-sweep, England appeal for lbw initially, as the ball loops up - and then a catch at the wicket. Not given but Stokes reviews. I think this might have come off the glove. Yep, deflected straight up off the top hand and Foakes was alert to snaffle it on the way down. Gill goes but not before making a vital hundred 211/527.1 miscued... and Stokes reels in a screamer! Galloping away towards long-off, he hurls himself full length and gets both hands safely under the ball. A wicket from nowhere, and one England desperately needed. Hartley with the breakthrough, tossed up and with a hint of turn, Iyer was looking to go over mid-on but skewed his shot high into the off side. Might have got away with it had the fielder not been Stokes 111/330.6 skidding on, nicked behind! Foakes clings on to a thin inside edge - brilliant take as the ball shot through low outside off. Rehan is into the action and among the wickets. India lose their fourth of the morning 122/459.6 trapped by a shooter, but did it pitch outside leg? Chris Gaffaney thinks so and shakes his head. England choose to review after some discussion. No doubt about pitching in line, would have torpedoed the stumps halfway up. England have another 220/664.4 that's one way to get out. A long hop, sits up, can hit it anywhere, but Bharat has found Stokes at mid-on. India still not putting it unequivocally past England 228/778.3 even better hands, claims the catch to finish this! Spins to catch the outside edge as Ashwin pokes on the front foot, again the ball doesn't get up but no problem for Foakes, whose gloves stay down and the ball nestles in place 255/1065.5 well well well. What is up with the Indian batters? Block, block, block, boom. Kuldeep tries a slog-sweep after some blocking. Top-edges it for an easy catch at midwicket. India have now lost eight wickets in just 28 false responses. Just soft batting 229/877.4 caught at gully. Hartley flights one wide outside off, he has a push at it, and edges it for a low catch to gully. Lovely catch by Bairstow 255/9Extras3 (lb 2, nb 1)TOTAL255 all out (78.3 Overs, RR: 3.24)Fall of wickets: 1-29 (Rohit Sharma, 6.4 ov), 2-30 (Yashasvi Jaiswal, 8.3 ov), 3-111 (Shreyas Iyer, 27.1 ov), 4-122 (Rajat Patidar, 30.6 ov), 5-211 (Shubman Gill, 55.6 ov), 6-220 (Axar Patel, 59.6 ov), 7-228 (Srikar Bharat, 64.4 ov), 8-229 (Kuldeep Yadav, 65.5 ov), 9-255 (Jasprit Bumrah, 77.4 ov), 10-255 (Ravichandran Ashwin, 78.3 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB JM Anderson 10 1 29 2 2.90 0 0 Shoaib Bashir 15 0 58 1 3.86 0 0 Rehan Ahmed 24.3 5 88 3 3.59 0 0 JE Root 2 1 1 0 0.50 0 0 TW Hartley 27 3 77 4 2.85 0 1
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR41.6 sharp spin, trapped on the crease! Was this turning too much? Looked close but not given on field by Marais Erasmus - Rohit opts to review with a few seconds remaining. Pitching on leg stump, struck him in line, what does ball-tracking say? Clattering into leg stump, India have another! Huge celebrations among the huddle, they've got the big wicket just before lunch. Kuldeep strikes in his first over of the day and England are five down, just shy of halfway to their target 194/510.5 brilliantly done by the keeper! Ashwin with the breakthrough in his first over. Clear inside edge on to the pads but the ball balloons away into the leg side, Bharat has to motor off and put in the full-length dive. Up goes the finger, up go the noise levels. Ashwin gets No. 497, Duckett in his pocket once again 50/121.5 Axar has his man. This is a shooter. Ahmed sees the flat trajectory, stays back, but it pitches just short of a length and skids through to trap him in front. Not sure if it has hit him in line, but Ahmed walks off without neven consulting the non-striker. Umpire's call on impact 95/228.2 Ashwin gets in. Lovely catch to his left by Rohit. Or rather it has stuck in his mitt. Pope is caught playing back to a ball not short enough. No turn there, extra bounce, takes the edge, Rohit reacts reflexively and it gets lodged in his left hand. No. 498 for Ashwin 132/330.6 Root throws the bat again, gone this time! An ugly hoick and the end of a frenetic innings. He had clearly set out to play in an aggressive mode - whether that's because he was bothered by his finger injury we don't know - but he was nowhere near this, aiming a slog over midwicket and the ball ballooning up to backward point 154/442.4 smacked on the back leg, up goes the finger! Bairstow reviews, looked possibly a touch high on first glance. But he was back in the crease and it only needs to be clipping... Length ball, seaming in past the inside edge, umpire's call on leg stump! Bumrah rips out another and India's fears of being Bazballed again will begin to ebb away 194/652.4 nice dip, creates the gap between bat and the pitch of the ball, takes the inside edge to leg. They come through for a quick single but Iyer has caught them short at the striker's end with a direct hit. Nice little run from short midwicket, one-handed pickup and the one visible sump is hit. All over now. Replays show casual running from Stokes. Caught jogging there 220/764.6 chipped back to the bowler, Bumrah does it again! Slower ball and Foakes is foxed. Beautifully bowled offcutter, batter through his shot early and Jassie stoops to scoop it up in his follow through. India two away now. Nerves dissipating 275/869.2 fabulous delivery, wins India the match! Reverse outswinger, beats Hartley and all ends up and flattens off stump. Actually flicked off the pads, so could have been out in two different ways. Bumrah finishes what he started with a six-wicket bag in the first innings, securing victory by 106 runs to level the series 292/1067.3 pitched up and nicked off! Bashir feels for it as the ball shapes away, up goes the finger. Mukesh gets a wicket and he is chuffed to bits about it. Nicely bowled, to be fair, a full-length reversing outswinger, and it grazes the outside edge through to Bharat. India one away from victory 281/9Extras15 (b 8, lb 5, nb 2)TOTAL292 all out (69.2 Overs, RR: 4.21)Fall of wickets: 1-50 (Ben Duckett, 10.5 ov), 2-95 (Rehan Ahmed, 21.5 ov), 3-132 (Ollie Pope, 28.2 ov), 4-154 (Joe Root, 30.6 ov), 5-194 (Zak Crawley, 41.6 ov), 6-194 (Jonny Bairstow, 42.4 ov), 7-220 (Ben Stokes, 52.4 ov), 8-275 (Ben Foakes, 64.6 ov), 9-281 (Shoaib Bashir, 67.3 ov), 10-292 (Tom Hartley, 69.2 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB JJ Bumrah 17.2 4 46 3 2.65 0 1 Mukesh Kumar 5 1 26 1 5.20 0 1 Kuldeep Yadav 15 0 60 1 4.00 0 0 R Ashwin 18 2 72 3 4.00 0 0 AR Patel 14 1 75 1 5.35 0 0
Match Details
Toss
India , elected to bat first
Player Of The Match
Series result
5-match series level 1-1
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
09.30 start, Lunch 11.30-12.10, Tea 14.10-14.30, Close 16.30
Match days
2,3,4,5 February 2024 (5-day match)
Test debut
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
India 12, England 0
Close of Play
- Fri, 2 Feb - day 1 - India 1st innings 336/6 (YBK Jaiswal 179*, R Ashwin 5*, 93 ov)
- Sat, 3 Feb - day 2 - India 2nd innings 28/0 (YBK Jaiswal 15*, RG Sharma 13*, 5 ov)
- Sun, 4 Feb - day 3 - England 2nd innings 67/1 (Z Crawley 29*, Rehan Ahmed 9*, 14 ov)
- Mon, 5 Feb - day 4 - England 2nd innings 292 (69.2 ov) - end of match
Match Notes
- England: 100 runs in 22.1 overs (134 balls), Extras 5
- Z Crawley: 50 off 83 balls (7 x 4, 1 x 6)
- Drinks: England - 132/3 in 28.2 overs (Z Crawley 53)
- Over 29.6: Review by India (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - M Erasmus, Batter - JE Root (Struck down - Umpires Call)
- England: 150 runs in 30.1 overs (182 balls), Extras 5
- Over 41.6: Review by India (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - M Erasmus, Batter - Z Crawley (Upheld)
- Lunch: England - 194/6 in 42.4 overs (BA Stokes 0)
- Over 42.4: Review by England (Batting), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - CB Gaffaney, Batter - JM Bairstow (Struck down - Umpires Call)
- England: 200 runs in 46.1 overs (278 balls), Extras 5
- Over 56.1: Review by India (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - CB Gaffaney, Batter - TW Hartley (Struck down)
- Drinks: England - 245/7 in 58.0 overs (BT Foakes 26, TW Hartley 11)
- England: 250 runs in 59.5 overs (360 balls), Extras 9
- Over 62.5: Review by England (Batting), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - CB Gaffaney, Batter - TW Hartley (Upheld)
- 8th Wicket: 50 runs in 63 balls (BT Foakes 19, TW Hartley 30, Ex 1)
- Over 65.4: Review by India (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - M Erasmus, Batter - TW Hartley (Struck down)
- Over 9.4: Review by India (Batting), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - CB Gaffaney, Batter - Shubman Gill (Upheld)
- Over 10.5: Review by England (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - M Erasmus, Batter - Shubman Gill (Struck down - Umpires Call)
- India: 50 runs in 16.2 overs (98 balls), Extras 0
- Drinks: India - 75/2 in 20.0 overs (Shubman Gill 27, SS Iyer 18)
- 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 77 balls (Shubman Gill 29, SS Iyer 22, Ex 0)
- India: 100 runs in 25.3 overs (153 balls), Extras 0
- Shubman Gill: 50 off 60 balls (8 x 4, 1 x 6)
- Lunch: India - 130/4 in 35.0 overs (Shubman Gill 60, AR Patel 2)
- India: 150 runs in 39.5 overs (239 balls), Extras 0
- 5th Wicket: 50 runs in 72 balls (Shubman Gill 32, AR Patel 18, Ex 0)
- Drinks: India - 198/4 in 51.0 overs (Shubman Gill 97, AR Patel 33)
- India: 200 runs in 51.3 overs (309 balls), Extras 0
- Shubman Gill: 100 off 132 balls (11 x 4, 2 x 6)
- Over 55.6: Review by England (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - CB Gaffaney, Batter - Shubman Gill (Upheld)
- Over 59.6: Review by England (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - CB Gaffaney, Batter - AR Patel (Upheld)
- Over 62.3: Review by England (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - M Erasmus, Batter - KS Bharat (Struck down)
- Tea: India - 227/6 in 64.0 overs (KS Bharat 6, R Ashwin 1)
- India: 250 runs in 76.4 overs (461 balls), Extras 3
- Drinks: India - 255/9 in 77.4 overs (R Ashwin 29)
- Innings Break: India - 255/10 in 78.3 overs (Mukesh Kumar 0)
- England 2nd innings
- England: 50 runs in 10.3 overs (64 balls), Extras 1
- 1st Wicket: 50 runs in 64 balls (Z Crawley 21, BM Duckett 28, Ex 1)
- End Of Day: England - 67/1 in 14.0 overs (Z Crawley 29, Rehan Ahmed 9)
- New ball taken at 94.1 overs
- India: 350 runs in 97.2 overs (585 balls), Extras 2
- Over 98.1: Review by England (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - CB Gaffaney, Batter - YBK Jaiswal (Struck down)
- Over 100.3: Review by India (Batting), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - CB Gaffaney, Batter - R Ashwin (Struck down)
- YBK Jaiswal: 200 off 277 balls (18 x 4, 7 x 6)
- Drinks: India - 383/8 in 106.5 overs (Kuldeep Yadav 1)
- Innings Break: India - 396/10 in 112.0 overs (Kuldeep Yadav 8)
- England 1st innings
- Lunch: England - 32/0 in 6.0 overs (Z Crawley 15, BM Duckett 17)
- England: 50 runs in 8.3 overs (51 balls), Extras 0
- 1st Wicket: 50 runs in 51 balls (Z Crawley 30, BM Duckett 20, Ex 0)
- Z Crawley: 50 off 52 balls (8 x 4, 1 x 6)
- England: 100 runs in 19.3 overs (117 balls), Extras 0
- 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 68 balls (Z Crawley 34, OJ Pope 17, Ex 0)
- Drinks: England - 110/1 in 22.0 overs (Z Crawley 72, OJ Pope 17)
- England: 150 runs in 31.5 overs (191 balls), Extras 1
- Tea: England - 155/4 in 33.0 overs (JM Bairstow 24, BA Stokes 5)
- England: 200 runs in 45.2 overs (272 balls), Extras 2
- Drinks: England - 205/7 in 46.0 overs (BA Stokes 38, TW Hartley 3)
- Over 51.6: Review by India (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - M Erasmus, Batter - JM Anderson (Struck down)
- England: 250 runs in 54.3 overs (328 balls), Extras 7
- Innings Break: England - 253/10 in 55.5 overs (Shoaib Bashir 8)
- India 2nd innings
- End Of Day: India - 28/0 in 5.0 overs (YBK Jaiswal 15, RG Sharma 13)
- India 1st innings
- Drinks: India - 40/0 in 16.0 overs (YBK Jaiswal 26, RG Sharma 14)
- India: 50 runs in 18.6 overs (114 balls), Extras 0
- YBK Jaiswal: 50 off 89 balls (6 x 4, 1 x 6)
- India: 100 runs in 30.6 overs (186 balls), Extras 0
- Lunch: India - 103/2 in 31.0 overs (YBK Jaiswal 51, SS Iyer 4)
- 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 85 balls (YBK Jaiswal 29, SS Iyer 21, Ex 0)
- India: 150 runs in 44.3 overs (267 balls), Extras 0
- Drinks: India - 163/2 in 47.0 overs (YBK Jaiswal 93, SS Iyer 22)
- YBK Jaiswal: 100 off 151 balls (11 x 4, 3 x 6)
- India: 200 runs in 56.4 overs (340 balls), Extras 0
- Tea: India - 225/3 in 63.0 overs (YBK Jaiswal 125, RM Patidar 25)
- 4th Wicket: 50 runs in 89 balls (YBK Jaiswal 23, RM Patidar 28, Ex 0)
- India: 250 runs in 72.3 overs (436 balls), Extras 1
- YBK Jaiswal: 150 off 224 balls (16 x 4, 4 x 6)
- Drinks: India - 277/4 in 78.0 overs (YBK Jaiswal 154, AR Patel 15)
- 5th Wicket: 50 runs in 73 balls (YBK Jaiswal 24, AR Patel 26, Ex 0)
- India: 300 runs in 83.4 overs (503 balls), Extras 1
- End Of Day: India - 336/6 in 93.0 overs (YBK Jaiswal 179, R Ashwin 5)
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