England Triumph In Final-day Lord’s Thriller As India Fall Short Despite Jadeja Heroics

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At nan extremity of an undulating Test lucifer that shape-shifted into an aggravated conflict of nan wills, it was England who emerged victorious. India were 23 runs short of their target when, astatine 4.54pm section time, Mohammed Siraj repelled a bouncing transportation from Shoaib Bashir, only to spot it trickle backmost onto nan stumps and nonstop a bail falling to nan ground.

It was a galling measurement for nan visitors to spell 2-1 down, while nan hosts still resembled nan survivors of a disaster movie. Both sides merit in installments for 5 melodramatic days; nan 2nd of 2 back-to-back Tests that began successful a heatwave and deed boiling constituent erstwhile a statement astir time-wasting blew up connected nan 3rd evening. Unlike akin scenes astatine Lord’s 4 years agone – Virat Kohli’s “60 overs of hell” lucifer – England conscionable astir kept their heads.

Their players and supporters were put done nan ringer, however, pinch Ravindra Jadeja’s marathon 61 from 181 balls turning 112 for 8 astatine luncheon into a slow-burn thriller that drove India wrong rubbing region of their 193-run goal. The needle notably besides melted distant erstwhile nan celebrations subsided, Joe Root among those to console nan bereft Siraj and shingle hands pinch Jadeja pursuing an unthinkable rearguard.