IND vs ENG 5th Test(Rescheduled) Results: Joe Root & Bairstow slam unbeaten Hundred to level the Series, 2-2

 

Root and Bairstow After winning the Match(PC:TOI)

Highlights of the IND vs. ENG Test Score: On Tuesday, England scored its highest-ever successful chase in a Test match's fourth innings.

India vs England Edgbaston Test Highlights:

In the fifth Test match that was postponed, England defeated India by seven wickets on Tuesday at Edgbaston in Birmingham. In the fourth innings, the hosts were able to defeat a 378-run goal thanks to an unbroken 269-run partnership between Joe Root and Jonny Bairtsow for the fourth wicket. Their best chase in the final innings of a test match was this one. Bairstow scored 114 unanswered points, while Root finished unbeaten on 142. Root and Bairstow tore away the Indian bowlers to score quick runs for England, helping the hosts, who resumed their innings on Tuesday with a score of 259 for 3, easily cross the finish line.

After India's second innings was ended with a score of 245 runs, England was given a goal of 378 runs to win the game. After winning the fifth Test, which was postponed, England and India split the five-match series 2-2.

Scorecard.

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Stand in India skipper Jasprit Bumrah was names India's player of the series for his 23 wickets.When play began on Tuesday. England score was 119 runs adrift and an early strike of two  could change the momentum for India.But the visitors were simply too flat, and their bowlers too wayward. Soome of the field settings and tatics were curious.As many as 65 of Root's 142 runs came square of the wicket on the off-side and 36 came via the flick shot through the mid-wicket.It mean the bowling sides of  the wicket. Barring a few overs from Bumrah just before and after tea on Day four, the rest of the Indian bowlers just didn't exert any pressure.

                            Joe Root, who now has 28 test hundreds, got to three figures first,courtesy a delectable late cut off an utterly disappointing Mohammad Siraj, whose ploy of using the scrambled seam deliveries consistently instead of the seam up ball, merits some hard talk from the coaching staff. Either in celebration, or in seach of a hefty IPL contract, Root the reverse scooped Shardul Thakur for a six. Thakur seems to have dropped at least 10kms in pace from the high 130s and the occosional 140 kmph mark he consistently hit in Australia and South Africa.

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Bairstow got to his second hundred of the game off Ravindra Jadeja, who strangely was told to keep bowling over the wicket, which negated any chances of him taking wickets.The beefy Yorkshireman, who was terrorized by the incoming delivery when the series was played last year, got into wonderful positions to meet the same ball early in both the innings. The result: compact centuries in each innigs, a feat last registered by Andrew Strauss for England in Chennai in 2008.There had previously been only two successful fouth innings chases above 200 at Edgbaston. But with the 'Bazball' approach, England are rewriting history books.

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WTC Points Table stands after IND vs ENG 5th Test:

South Africa is ranked second in the WTC 2023 points standings, behind the Australian team. Sri Lanka, England, New Zealand, Bangladesh, and the West Indies are in fourth and fifth place, respectively, after Pakistan and the West Indies.

Stokes and Bumrah Sharing the Trophy(PC:Twitter)

Led by Jasprit Bumrah In the fifth and final Test of the series, Squad India lost to Ben Stokes' England team by 7 wickets, missing the chance to win their first Test series on English soil in 15 years. The Three Lions were able to tie the series at 2-2 and avoid the humiliation of losing to an Indian side that was plagued by injuries. The Indian team lost out on important World Test Championship points in addition to the historic victory. With six victories, four losses, and two draws to their credit, India is now ranked third overall in the points standings. The WTC cycle, which ends in 2023, has 77 and 53.47 percentage win points for Rohit Sharma's team.

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South Africa is ranked second in the WTC 2023 points standings, behind the Australian team. Sri Lanka, England, New Zealand, Bangladesh, and the West Indies are in fourth and fifth place, respectively, after Pakistan and the West Indies.

In the meantime, England thrashed India by seven wickets on the fifth day of the fifth Test as Joe Root hammered his 11th Test century since 2021 and Jonny Bairstow hit his second century of the rescheduled Edgbaston Test.

Root (142 not out off 173 balls) and Bairstow (114 not out off 145 balls) scored the necessary 119 runs in an hour and a half to square the Pataudi Trophy series at 2-2 and prevent India from winning its first series in England since 2007.

The successful 378-point chase is also the highest England has ever attempted in a Test match. After successfully chasing 277, 299, and 296 against New Zealand, England's 378 against India became them the first side in Test cricket to successfully chase four 250+ runs in a row. In their 269-run undefeated streak, Root and Bairstow were effective, faultless, and dominant as England's Bazball winning streak continued.

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