By Admin 
IND vs Eng First Test: Shubman Gill’s captaincy era against England began with a defeat in the Leeds Test of Hendigley. This match which lasted for five days was no less than a thriller film. In this match, India broke many records and achieved historical achievements. In the end, the Indian team lost by 5 wickets and the English team won this match. Every session of the match was full of thrill and the match seemed to be coming in India’s favor, but still India lost in the last moments.
This was Team India’s first Test after senior players Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Ravichandran Ashwin after retirement in the Test. The kind of game this young team showed, indicating that the new generation is also fully prepared for matches, but some strategic and technical mistakes took away the match from India.
India had to face defeat due to strategy
The Indian team performed the best batting in the entire match. The team batsmen scored 835 runs in both innings. For the first time, in the history of Test cricket, Indian batsmen scored five centuries in a single match. For India, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, and KL Rahul scored a brilliant century while playing amazing innings. At the same time, Rishabh Pant also made ithar by scoring a century twice. Despite this, the Indian team failed to taste the victory.
Seeing the match, coach Gautam Gambhir and captain Gill’s strategy was clear that the team made a big score and brought England under pressure in the fourth innings. In the second innings, the team set 364 runs in front of the English team, which was the second largest target in history in the Leeds ground, but in the fourth innings, India’s most experienced fast bowlers Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammad Siraj could not take a single wicket. Along with this, the fielding of the team was also very bad and disappointing. The players left many important catch, which gave the England team a chance to return to the game.
Maturity was not seen in the Indian team. India’s last seven wickets in the first innings fell for 41 runs and the last six wickets in the second innings fell to 31 runs, which proved to be the turning point of the match. This is the reason that India lost the match despite being completely dominated by England in the matches.
Now Team India has a great chance to return to the second Test starting on July 2 in Birmingham and winning this second Test is also a big challenge. After the defeat in the first Test, captain Gill and Coach Gambhir are being questioned whether they will be able to make the strategy more effective or will this necklace chase for a long time?