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England easily defeated India by five wickets on Tuesday, the fifth day of the first Test, with the help of Ben Docket’s brilliant century, taking full advantage of the lax performance of Indian bowlers and loose fielding."Text-Align: justify;"> Docket scored 149 runs in 170 balls with the help of 21 fours and a six while Jack Croly scored 65 runs. Both of them shared a 188 -run partnership for the first wicket and closed all the paths of India’s return to the match. After this, Joe Root scored 53 and Jamie Smith scored 44 runs to lead the team to win.
England 1 in the five -match series. Is ahead of 0. India scored five centuries in this match, but despite this, the team had to face defeat. Bad fielding was also responsible for this, as Indians dripped many catches. Jasprit Bumrah did not get support in bowling from the other end also increased India’s difficulties.
Indian bowlers only gave 44 fours and three sixes in the second innings. The first innings had 54 fours and five sixes. The second Test starting from July 2 is still time, but the change in the bowling attack is scheduled so that the entire 20 wickets can be taken in the match,
In the last session, Ravindra Jadeja caught England captain Ben Stokes by Shubman Gill. At that time England needed 69 runs, so Root used his experience of more than 150 Tests to bring the host to the floor with young Smith.
Yashasvi Jaiswal dripped four catches from India. Captain Gill’s inexperience was also clearly visible, whose decisions and strategy were not accurate. At one time it seemed that the most experienced batsman KL Rahul is captaining. With this defeat, the record of coach Gautam Gambhir in the traditional format got worse.
India has now lost seven out of 11 Tests while Gambhir’s coach. This figure is also afraid of reaching double digits because Bumrah will not play two out of the remaining four matches.
Shardul Thakur took 16 overs in the entire match and took two wickets. The way Ravindra Jadeja was seen battling for the rhythm, the team management must be rubbing on the decision not to feed Kuldeep Yadav.
Famous Krishna took five wickets in the match but the way he has fours on his balls, he does not see reliable bowlers. In such a situation, the seam and swing bowling masters Ishant Sharma and Mohammed Shami’s shortage were lacking.
Left -handed batsman Docket played Bumrah in the morning session. Bumrah gave 57 runs in 19 overs but did not get success. Docket and Jack Croly (65) shared a 188 -run partnership for the first wicket.
India benefited from some time after lunch and failed in the morning, Krishna took two wickets for 92 runs in 15 overs. He grabbed Croly in slip to Rahul. After this, Oli Pope (eight), who scored a century in the first innings, sent the pavilion.
Despite double shaking, Docket continued to bat aggressively. In the morning session, Bumrah bowled well but did not get support from the other end. England batsmen kept pressure on Siraj and Thakur.
Docket also got a life from Jaiswal on Siraj’s ball. Jadeja did not get any help from the pitch and Dock put him many good reverse sweeps. On one reverse sweep, he hit a four and hit a six over the extra cover on the other.
India had to bear the brunt of not removing the spinner running in form like Kuldeep.
Shardul tried to return India to the match by dismissing Docket and Harry Brook (0) but by then it was too late. Docket caught Nitish Reddy in the cover while Brook caught Rishabh Pant behind the wicket.