So, this brutal and exhausting series goes to the distance, until the fifth day of the fifth test, like the four tests before him. England needs 35 points to win the match and the series; India needs three and a half counters to draw the series. The half-time is Chris Woakes, who was seen hanging around in the locker room in full white day in the day, with his shoulder dislocated in a scarf, ready to fight if England needed him.
England in Jamie Smith and Jamie Overton in Crease, but they have Joe Root and Harry Brook to thank for this post, only six six at the winning line, because Brendon McCullum could see him. Chasing 374, drummers n ° 1 and no 3 in the world have both marked centuries while demolishing the imposing advance of India. They shook the milestones at a rate of approximately an applause – Brook’s tone, their 150 partnership, 100 to win, the 300th race from England – until Brook is finally succumbed, loading Akash deeply and depositing the ball to cover.
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Brook had held large and swung in all corners, making 111 from 98 balls, while Root painted images with his cover reader, marking 105 of 152 balls and celebrating with an emotional wink to his old mentor Graham Thorpe, carrying a banner in homage. But Brook, in particular, should never have had the opportunity. A summer cricket can all be summed up with a bad judgment of Mohammed Siraj here on the fourth day.
Shortly before lunch, the 19th, Brook flashed a short ball of Prasidh Krishna over his shoulder to the deep square leg back. Siraj took the border and the sliding cord of India jumped in joy while Krishna looked Brook with a big smile, arms wide, tight fists to celebrate. But his smile melted when he noticed Siraj with his head in his hands, the field player having stumbled on the rope while tightening the ball like a drunk trying not to overthrow his beer.
Siraj and the crowd cannot really believe that its limits in the limits (Pa Wire)
Harry Brook celebrates its century against India (Pa Wire)
A theme of this series was the workload of the players, after the BCE piled up five tests in six weeks before the start of the hundreds. This oval final was refused some of the best players in the game: Ben Stokes has embarked on pieces, and India could not risk Jasprit Bumrah doing the same. And perhaps the pure intensity of the cricket has indirectly done for Siraj, the most overloaded bowling player on each side.
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The time has come to the very first ball after his return from a brief break in the locker room, after having hammered his overs the morning. Freshly out of the Escher staircase which is the road from the oval of the pavilion to the pitch, Siraj had not yet obtained his bearings when he took the plug. A step forward and he could have taken it comfortably up to the chest, Brook would have walked and the match would have been almost finished.
He was able to be Siraj, the chief agitator of India, never far from the last spade. This is the other recurring theme, an animosity between the two parties undoubtedly fueled by the exhaustion in which Siraj revels. It was the beating heart of India through this tour, with a contribution measured in more than simple girls and counters – most of the series with 21 – but in miles, in hours, in buckets of sweat. Without him, the series was said to have been entered a long time ago. And yet, his misstep here was a catalyst.
The morning session had started in favor of India. Siraj and Krishna struck a good length tirelessly, the tanning ball just outside with a touch of swing, grumbling the ground just enough to disturb the edge of the bat. Ben Duckett was soon on the way after falling into Krishna’s well -thrown trap, trying the right disc that is his kryptonite and sending a thick edge to the third shift.
Ollie Pope followed for 27: Siraj smothered one to beautifully with an oscillated seam and a few additional miles per hour, trapping the captain of England Plum on his front cushion in a mirror image of his first lander dismissal. England was 106-3, in fact four counters due to Woake’s injury. India was beautifully in a cloudy sky, and the result seemed inevitable.
Joe Root pays tribute to the late Graham Thorpe after reaching his century (Pa Wire)
But Siraj has changed the mood. The supporters of England woke up from their Sunday morning sleep, happily reveling from the reruns on the big screen, while Brook was detached and began to sculpt every corner to reach 164-3 at lunch. The cord of India gradually disappeared during the afternoon session while Shubman Gill parked four men at the limit to stem the flow.
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Brook lifted hard draw on the middle of the counter for a group of four, while Root was waiting for bad bullets and punished Indian quantities with a clear shot, including such an attractive journey that he could have started his own modeling career. Deep is running with his own comedy on the border, trying to stop the ball with one foot before the other overturns it on the rope for four. Gill turned to turn but Ravira Jadeja and Washington Sundar were hammered around the ground and quickly withdrew.
However, the late keys of Root and Jacob Bethell, who cut his stumps for five, encouraged tourists before heavy rains ended early. India ended the day still believing, but the fate of this match was finally decided a few hours earlier, by taking six points.
