Monday 21 July 2014
India tour of England, 2nd Investec Test: England v India at Lord's
Indian Team played all-round cricket and wrote history when the side - led by Ishant Sharma's career best 7/74 - defeated England by 95 runs to win at Lord's after 28 years and take 1-0 lead in the series.
India's overseas win drought ended finally after more than 3 years, the last one being in West Indies 2011.
This new generation of Indian players showed the perfect blend of skill and confidence to script a memorable win for the visitors. They played with heart & celebrated with passion as the locals stood up to take note of history being unfolded.
Indian pacer Ishant Sharma gave a stellar bowling performance that ripped through England's batting line-up in the 2nd innings. Ishant returned splendid figures of 7/74, his career-best in Tests,.
The tall pacer came into the series under some severe pressure to perform & his poor bowling figures in the warm-up games did not help him. But he never stopped backing himself.
Ishant (7/74), Jadeja (68 in 2nd innings & 3 wickets total) and B Kumar (52 runs in 2nd innings & 6 wickets in 1st) led the attack and forced England to cave in. Such was the affect that England - needing 214 on the 5th day and with 6 wickets to spare - failed to resist even remotely. It took them just a little less than 2 sessions to fold up the remaining batting & allow India to a systematic and, more importantly, historic triumph.
what a morale-boosting win for indiaaaa!!!
ReplyDeletehope kohli finds form now! (y)