India Edge England In Gripping Vizag Test To Level 5-Match Series

At The Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium In Visakhapatnam, India Defeated England In A Thrilling Second Test To Tie The Five-Match Series 1-1. After England Struggled To Chase A Record 399 To Win, They Were Eventually Bowled Out For 292 As India Won By 106 Runs In The Second Session On Day 4.

Both Teams Sparred Throughout The Morning Session, With India Needing Nine Wickets And England Needing 332 Runs To Win. However, The Hosts Took Back Control With Two Wickets At The End Of The Session, Finishing With Five Wickets. England Managed To Reach 127 Runs In 28.4 Overs Thanks To A Brisk 73 From Zak Crawley, But India Continued To Pick Up Wickets. In The Final Over Prior To Lunch, Bumrah Dismissed Jonny Bairstow For 26, While Kuldeep Removed Crawley.

Following Lunch, Ben Stokes And Ben Foakes Put Together A Tenacious 26-Run Partnership Until The Latter Was Hit Straight By Shreyas Iyer And Had To Return To The Pavilion. Bumrah Removed Both Hitters, Foakes And Hartley, Capping An Incredible 54-Run Partnership. With 36, Hartley Was The Final Batter To Be Out Of The Game. Bumrah Ended Up Taking Three Wickets In The Second Half Of The Innings And Nine Overall.

In The Morning Session Of Day 4, Ashwin, Who Need Four Wickets To Surpass 500 Wickets, Dismissed Ollie Pope (Age 23) And Joe Root (Age 16). However, He Was Unable To Secure The Historic Wicket And Concluded With Stats Of 3 For 72. On Day 3, He Took Ben Duckett’s Wicket During The Final Session.

India Peg Back England With Wickets At Regular Intervals

India Took The Final Four English Wickets In The Post-Lunch Session After Taking Five Wickets In The First Session, And They Bowled Out The Opponentsin 69.2 Overs. After Stokes (11), Bumrah Removed Ben Foakes (36) And Tom Hartley (36), Then Mukesh Kumar Took Out Shoaib Bashir (0) For His First And Only Wicket Of The Game.

R Ashwin Claimed Two Scalps In The Morning Session, While Kuldeep Yadav And Axar Patel (1/75) Each Claimed One.

Yashasvi Jaiswal’s Incredible Knock Of 209 In The Opening Essay Earned Him The Title Of Player Of The Match. Beginning On February 15, The Third Test Of The Five-Match Series Will Take Place In Rajkot.