India’s Victorious Performance at Oval in 50 Years; Won the Match by 157 Runs, Read Full Story Here:

On a sunny day India dominate England side again in the ongoing series in recently concluded fourth test at The Oval Cricket Ground, a special victory came in India’s account by 157 runs.

After a deep fall on day 1 India started making huge comebacks in the game, right in England’s second innings when Umesh Yadav with his co-mates destroyed their middle order and wiped them on 290 runs. Important and match turning phase of match then started when India turned up for their second innings.

Blue’s star opening pair set up the platform for coming middle order as KL Rahul played well but unfortunately missed his fifty(46) while Rohit Sharma with Pujara showed an efficient energy with scoring 127 and 61 respectively. Kohli too on the other hand continued the dominance and played out the toughest situation of the innings scored 44.

Story wasn’t finished yet as India’s star keeper, Rishabh Pant who was not in that great mood till the date scored an important fifty runs innings with fellow rising all-rounder Shardul Thakur (61) who is turning up again and again for India whenever he gets the opportunity. In total India scored 466 runs by the end of the innings.

England had to chase the huge target of 357 runs in the last innings to win the match, but they fell short too early. Though England’s opening pair started well with some winning approach but rest players couldn’t find that ray of hope anywhere on the field between attacking bowling performance of India.

On day five India got some easy wickets that too of middle order which performed well earlier in the match. It was a complete team effort by Indian side which gave them a special win and a lead of 2-1 in four out of five matches.

Brief Score:

IND 1^st Inns: 191/10 (S Thakur 57, Woakes 4-55)

ENG 1^st Inns: 290/10 (Pope 81, Umesh 3-76)

IND 2^nd Inns: 466/10 (R Sharma 127, Woakes 3-83)

ENG 2^nd Inns: 210/10 (Hameed 63, Umesh 3-60)

Player of the Match- Rohit Sharma