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- Published: January 28, 2024 17:43
New Delhi: The English cricket team, after trailing the first two days of the Hyderabad Test, the visitors made a winning comeback on the next two days to register an impressive 28-run victory in the first match of the series.
England, who was trailing by a huge margin of 190 runs in the first innings, put on a strong batting performance in the second innings, thanks to Ollie Pope’s 196, and posted a huge total of 420 on the board, taking a fighting lead of 230 runs.
India, in reply, started well with the openers Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal, as the openers took a positive approach in the tricky 231 runs chase in the fourth innings.
A fifer 🖐 on debut
Tom hardly put a foot wrong as he brings the visitors to the brink of victory 🎉#INDvsENG #IDFCFirstBankTestSeries #JioCinemaSports #BazBowled pic.twitter.com/toBszaZ8yM
— JioCinema (@JioCinema) January 28, 2024
However, England made a great comeback and kept taking back-to-back wickets to keep India under pressure and reduced the hosts to 119 for 7.
Interestingly, Ravichandran Ashwin (28) and KS Bharat (28) decided to stick themselves in between England and the win, as they stitched an important 57-run partnership to get India somewhat back in the game.
Jasprit Bumrah and Md. Siraj tried to get India over the line, but it was Hartley who had the last laugh of the match.
As it happened
Earlier, English skipper Ben Stokes won the toss and opted to bat first.
England got off to a flyer as the openers, Zak Crawly (20) and Ben Duckett (35), started their famous bazball cricket.
However, the Indian spinners made a strong comeback and kept taking regular wickets to bundle out the whole English team on 246.
4⃣ Bowlers
4⃣ Dismissals
💬 💬 Jasprit Bumrah, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja & Axar Patel pick their favourite
Which one is your pick❓#TeamIndia | #INDvENG | @Jaspritbumrah93 | @ashwinravi99 | @imjadeja | @akshar2026 | @IDFCFIRSTBank pic.twitter.com/7fObot6HGP
— BCCI (@BCCI) January 25, 2024
Notably, England’s situation could have been even worse if not for the skipper Ben Stokes’s brilliant 70 runs innings.
India, in reply, utilized the bazball of their own, and with the help of half-centuries from Ravindra Jadeja (87), KL Rahul (86) and Yashasvi Jaiswal (80), posted a huge total of 436 runs on the board, taking a huge lead of 190 runs in the first innings.
3⃣ Batters. 3⃣ Vital knocks
Presenting the 80s trio from the first innings 👌👌#TeamIndia | #INDvENG | @imjadeja | @klrahul | @ybj_19 | @IDFCFIRSTBank pic.twitter.com/E0f9BfrhtC
— BCCI (@BCCI) January 27, 2024
In the second innings, English batsmen looked way more comfortable but were still not able to play a prolonged innings before Ollie Pope took the charge and scored a brilliant 196 to take the innings total to 436, giving the hosts a tricky 231 runs target to chase in the fourth innings.
Standing ovation for Ollie Pope from the Hyderabad crowd! #Pope #Olliepope #INDvsENG pic.twitter.com/vUh9ePd6PU
— Kartik Kannan (@kartik_kannan) January 28, 2024
However, despite a positive start from Rohit Sharma (39) and Yashasvi Jaiswal (15), India kept on losing wickets at regular intervals and was eventually bundled out on 202, to hand over the visitors 28 runs victory in the match, and 1-0 lead in the series.
