India beat England: An all-round bowling effort on the fifth day of the match has handed India a 157-run victory at The Oval.
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During the fifth day of the fourth Test of the ongoing India’s tour of England at The Oval, India beat England by 157 runs to go 2-1 up in the five-match series.
Chasing a 368-run target, all England could manage was 210 in 92.2 overs. Resuming from their overnight score of 77/0, England lost 10 wickets for only 133 runs today.
While English opening batsmen Rory Burns (50) and Haseeb Hameed (63) played well to put together a 100-run partnership, the others didn’t seem to have any answers against the Indian bowlers. England captain Joe Root (36) did put up a defensive act but an inspired bowling change from his counterpart Virat Kohli resulted in his dismissal.
Playing his first international match of 2021, India fast bowler Umesh Yadav was the pick of their bowlers with bowling figures of 18.2-2-60-3 in the fourth innings. As far as match figures are concerned, Yadav topped there as well for his team picking match figures of 37.2-4-136-6.
A special mention needs to be made of India spearhead Jasprit Bumrah for it was his outstanding spell after the lunch break which rattled the English middle-order as Ollie Pope (2) and Jonny Bairstow (0) were both found wanting against in-swinging deliveries.
Other than Yadav and Bumrah, Shardul Thakur and Ravindra Jadeja were also among the wickets picking a couple of wickets each in a winning effort.
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