It's been a 1124 days since India last won a Test overseas, It has been 28 years since India last won a Test at Lord's. The wait is over, and the main who starred on the final day is the man Indian fans have
ridiculed for years
- Ishant Sharma. He leads the triumphant team off the field.
England have had some horror days over the past year, but that hour after tea has to rank somewhere near the bottom. Why on earth did they not leave a few short balls? This loss after winning the toss on the greenest Lord's pitch in years has got to hurt bad.
A few words from the fans.
shushank: "28 seems to be the lucky number for India, world cup after 28 years, win at lords after 28 years.."
Mark: "Lamentable Ghastly Pusillanimous Desperate Depressing Gutless Miserable Defeatist Idiotic more? "
Jacob Daniel: "Not half way through the series yet and half of the Indian Side have had their personal best performances...Bhuvi, Shami, Binny, Ishant, Jadeja. Can't wait for the rest of the team to get going."
James: "So, England lose their last 6 wickets for 50. Five of them bounced out by Ishant Sharma (who bowled very well throughout). Doesn't stop that being a rank display of utter batting ineptitude. England got the pitch they wanted, and won the toss. Since then they've been totally outplayed, especially over the last day."
Abhay Sheth: "India won the first test at lords in 1986- 3years after their world cup win and now in 2014- 3years after their world cup win.. Histroy repeating itself..."
Nihir Kumar: "A day well spent at office , Pretending like i have lots of work. From Vienna, Austria"
Ramesh: "No more Ishant Sharma trolls please!"
msb: "@ James: England lost on green top in England... while India lost on rank turner in India... Scores Level... "
Prashanth: "India prepared rank turners when England visited them - and we saw Swann & Monty win it for England. Now, England have made a lively pitch for pace bowlers at Lord's... and guess what, it was India that won the honors. What an irony!!"
Pradeep: "Anyone remembers Champions Trophy final?? England cruising and Ishant was hit all over the park. Dhoni was severely criticised for giving him the bowl again and he turned the things around with short balls. Here he has done it again after hit for three 4's in his previous over when he took Moin's wicket....."
Time for the presentation ceremony:
First up, Alastair Cook: "It's a tough defeat, I thin kwe have to give India a lot of credit, they have outbowled and outbatted us."
About the green pitch: "Last innings as well, the pitch was turning and bouncing, good toss to win. Credit to India, they left very well."
"Definitely an issue of confidence, and getting over the finish line, there's a group of player desperate to win for England. Going to take a lot of determination to turn this around. A lot of our performances have been by the younger guys, that's good for English cricket. Yes, the older guys are not playing as well as their record suggest, same for myself, I have to start scoring runs as well."
On Prior: "He's got a serious amount of talent, at the moment I think he's the best wicketkeeper-batsman in the country, every single guy has to earn his place in the side, he's a fighter, the sort of guy you want in the dressing room."
Cook gets a bit emotional towards the end: "I'm trying my heart out to turn this around.First and foremost, I have to start scoring runs. Recent past hasn't been kind to me, but we have won some games as captain as well."
Plenty of tough questions there for Cook from Atherton. Cook coming across as someone desperate to get England back to winning ways.
MS Dhoni: "Memorable win for us, not many players have played Test cricket in England, their approach was brilliant, it was a fantastic performance. It was a crucial toss, there was something for the fast bowlers, I think the openers and No. 3, it was not bowled to them, they made the England bowlers bowl to them, you want the opposition to bowl more than 90 overs, because then even when the tailenders come (it becomes easy), the whole batting department is doing really well."
"I think we learnt from the 2011 series that it is important to stay in the game till the third day, because then our spinners come into the game. That was something that was needed, but we couldn't in 2011."
"Jadeja has to play that kind of game, I think the more Test cricket he plays, the more he will become a proper Test batsman. I think his technique is very good, but he is someone who doubts himself more than most. I think we have been cribbing about the lack of quick bowling allrounder, but we have to use the resources we have."
"First session today showed us that we had to be at our best, at that point what happens is you start doubting yourself. That last over before lunch, Ishant didn't want to bowl short, I just told him he has to and turned away. It was a fantastic performance."
"I wanted Virat at slip to stand a bit wide, standing up is a bit of a lottery whether it will come to the hand or not, I thought if the batsman steps out then I will stand up, otherwise stay back."
Man of the Match is Ishant Sharma: "The way batsmen played in the first innings, Ajinkya played really well in the first innings, that gave us the momentum. Also the way Vijay played, Jaddu and Bhuvi also. Cricket is a great leveller, the way MS bhai handled the team, the way he keeps on motivating the guys. I think all these wickets are not for me, it is only for the captain, he told me you are tall enough, you have to try the bouncer."
A famous win for India, finished off with a barrage of short balls. But there were plenty of solid performances from the others: Pujara's patient 28 on the first morning when the track was at it's deadliest, Ajinkya Rahane accelerated to his century later in the day, Bhuvneshwar's batting in both innings and his bowling in the first, Vijay's again showing he has the patience and concentration to flourish in Tests, and also Jadeja's manic counterattacking half-century which turned the game yesterday.
Where do England go from here? End of the road for Prior? How close is Cook to getting the push? The England team will be picked tomorrow.
The sad thing is after this astonishing Test, the headlines over the next few days could be dominated by the Anderson-Jadeja spat after the hearing tomorrow.
Full Score board:
India 295 & 342
England 319 & 223 (88.2 ov)
India won by 95 runs
- Pataudi Trophy - 2nd Test
- Test no. 2130 | 2014 season
- Played at Lord's, London
- 17,18,19,20,21 July 2014 (5-day match)
| India 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
 | M Vijay | c Ballance b Plunkett | 24 | 96 | 67 | 4 | 0 | 35.82 |
| S Dhawan | c Ballance b Anderson | 7 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 63.63 |
| CA Pujara | b Stokes | 28 | 169 | 117 | 4 | 0 | 23.93 |
| V Kohli | c †Prior b Anderson | 25 | 39 | 34 | 4 | 0 | 73.52 |
| AM Rahane | c & b Anderson | 103 | 229 | 154 | 15 | 1 | 66.88 |
| MS Dhoni*† | c †Prior b Broad | 1 | 22 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 5.88 |
| RA Jadeja | lbw b Ali | 3 | 13 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 27.27 |
| STR Binny | lbw b Anderson | 9 | 22 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 47.36 |
| B Kumar | b Broad | 36 | 97 | 84 | 7 | 0 | 42.85 |
| Mohammed Shami | c Cook b Stokes | 19 | 44 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 79.16 |
| I Sharma | not out | 12 | 21 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 92.30 | |
| Extras | (b 17, lb 10, nb 1) | 28 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 91.4 overs) | 295 | (3.21 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets 1-11 (Dhawan, 2.5 ov), 2-48 (Vijay, 21.3 ov), 3-86 (Kohli, 31.1 ov), 4-113 (Pujara, 41.5 ov),5-123 (Dhoni, 47.2 ov), 6-128 (Jadeja, 50.4 ov), 7-145 (Binny, 57.2 ov), 8-235 (Kumar, 81.6 ov), 9-275 (Rahane, 86.4 ov), 10-295 (Mohammed Shami, 91.4 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| JM Anderson | 23 | 7 | 60 | 4 | 2.60 | ||
| SCJ Broad | 22 | 5 | 79 | 2 | 3.59 | ||
| LE Plunkett | 15 | 5 | 51 | 1 | 3.40 | (1nb) | |
| BA Stokes | 17.4 | 5 | 40 | 2 | 2.26 | ||
| MM Ali | 14 | 2 | 38 | 1 | 2.71 |
| England 1st innings | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
| AN Cook* | c †Dhoni b Kumar | 10 | 29 | 2 | 0 | 34.48 | |
| SD Robson | c †Dhoni b Kumar | 17 | 42 | 1 | 0 | 40.47 | |
| GS Ballance | c †Dhoni b Kumar | 110 | 203 | 15 | 0 | 54.18 | |
| IR Bell | c Jadeja b Kumar | 16 | 56 | 2 | 0 | 28.57 | |
| JE Root | lbw b Jadeja | 13 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 26.00 | |
| MM Ali | lbw b Vijay | 32 | 106 | 4 | 0 | 30.18 | |
| LE Plunkett | not out | 55 | 79 | 8 | 0 | 69.62 | ||
| MJ Prior† | c Dhawan b Mohammed Shami | 23 | 42 | 4 | 0 | 54.76 | |
| BA Stokes | b Kumar | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| SCJ Broad | c Dhawan b Kumar | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 200.00 | |
| JM Anderson | c Rahane b Jadeja | 19 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 90.47 | |
| Extras | (b 5, lb 10, w 2, nb 3) | 20 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 105.5 overs) | 319 | (3.01 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets 1-22 (Cook, 10.1 ov), 2-31 (Robson, 14.1 ov), 3-70 (Bell, 31.4 ov), 4-113 (Root, 46.3 ov),5-211 (Ali, 78.5 ov), 6-214 (Ballance, 82.1 ov), 7-265 (Prior, 94.3 ov), 8-276 (Stokes, 98.2 ov), 9-280 (Broad, 98.4 ov),10-319 (Anderson, 105.5 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| B Kumar | 31 | 10 | 82 | 6 | 2.64 | ||
| Mohammed Shami | 19 | 5 | 58 | 1 | 3.05 | (2nb, 1w) | |
| I Sharma | 24 | 5 | 61 | 0 | 2.54 | (1nb, 1w) | ||
| STR Binny | 10 | 0 | 45 | 0 | 4.50 | |||
| RA Jadeja | 18.5 | 1 | 46 | 2 | 2.44 | ||
| M Vijay | 3 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 4.00 |
| India 2nd innings | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
| M Vijay | c †Prior b Anderson | 95 | 247 | 11 | 0 | 38.46 | |
| S Dhawan | c Root b Stokes | 31 | 45 | 4 | 0 | 68.88 | |
| CA Pujara | c †Prior b Plunkett | 43 | 83 | 7 | 0 | 51.80 | |
| V Kohli | b Plunkett | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| AM Rahane | c †Prior b Broad | 5 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 62.50 | |
| MS Dhoni*† | c Bell b Plunkett | 19 | 86 | 2 | 0 | 22.09 | |
| STR Binny | c Cook b Ali | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| RA Jadeja | c Cook b Stokes | 68 | 57 | 9 | 0 | 119.29 | |
| B Kumar | c Bell b Stokes | 52 | 71 | 8 | 0 | 73.23 | |
| Mohammed Shami | c †Prior b Ali | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| I Sharma | not out | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| Extras | (b 19, lb 9, w 1) | 29 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 103.1 overs) | 342 | (3.31 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets 1-40 (Dhawan, 13.6 ov), 2-118 (Pujara, 43.3 ov), 3-118 (Kohli, 43.4 ov), 4-123 (Rahane, 46.3 ov),5-202 (Dhoni, 75.1 ov), 6-203 (Binny, 76.5 ov), 7-235 (Vijay, 82.4 ov), 8-334 (Jadeja, 99.1 ov),9-338 (Mohammed Shami, 100.2 ov), 10-342 (Kumar, 103.1 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| JM Anderson | 29 | 11 | 77 | 1 | 2.65 | ||
| SCJ Broad | 23 | 6 | 93 | 1 | 4.04 | (1w) | |
| BA Stokes | 18.1 | 2 | 51 | 3 | 2.80 | ||
| LE Plunkett | 22 | 6 | 65 | 3 | 2.95 | ||
| MM Ali | 11 | 3 | 28 | 2 | 2.54 |
| England 2nd innings (target: 319 runs) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
| SD Robson | lbw b Jadeja | 7 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 25.92 | |
| AN Cook* | c †Dhoni b Sharma | 22 | 93 | 2 | 0 | 23.65 | |
| GS Ballance | c †Dhoni b Mohammed Shami | 27 | 59 | 2 | 0 | 45.76 | |
| IR Bell | b Sharma | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| JE Root | c Binny b Sharma | 66 | 146 | 7 | 0 | 45.20 | |
| MM Ali | c Pujara b Sharma | 39 | 147 | 5 | 0 | 26.53 | |
| MJ Prior† | c Vijay b Sharma | 12 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 109.09 | |
| BA Stokes | c Pujara b Sharma | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| SCJ Broad | c †Dhoni b Sharma | 8 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 57.14 | |
| LE Plunkett | not out | 7 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 36.84 | ||
| JM Anderson | run out (Jadeja) | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| Extras | (b 13, lb 16, w 1, nb 2) | 32 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 88.2 overs) | 223 | (2.52 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets 1-12 (Robson, 6.1 ov), 2-70 (Ballance, 28.1 ov), 3-71 (Bell, 29.2 ov), 4-72 (Cook, 31.2 ov),5-173 (Ali, 75.6 ov), 6-198 (Prior, 79.5 ov), 7-201 (Stokes, 81.2 ov), 8-201 (Root, 81.5 ov), 9-216 (Broad, 85.6 ov),10-223 (Anderson, 88.2 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| B Kumar | 16 | 7 | 21 | 0 | 1.31 | |||
| Mohammed Shami | 11 | 3 | 33 | 1 | 3.00 | ||
| I Sharma | 23 | 6 | 74 | 7 | 3.21 | (2nb) | |
| RA Jadeja | 32.2 | 7 | 53 | 1 | 1.63 | ||
| M Vijay | 4 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 2.75 | (1w) | ||
| S Dhawan | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1.00 |
| Match details | |||||||||||
| Toss England, who chose to field Series India led the 5-match series 1-0 | |||||||||||
| Player of the match I Sharma (India) | |||||||||||
| Umpires HDPK Dharmasena (Sri Lanka) and BNJ Oxenford (Australia) TV umpire RK Illingworth Match referee DC Boon (Australia) Reserve umpire DJ Millns | |||||||||||
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