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Test
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Day: 5, Session: 2
ENG need 450 runs to win with 4 wickets remaining
IND
587-10 & 427-6
407-10 &
158/6
ENG
Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy, 2025 |2nd Test |7/2/2025
Edgbaston, Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham
| BATSMAN | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jamie Smith (W) | 37 | 56 | 5 | 0 | 66.07 |
| Chris Woakes * | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| BOWLERS | O | M | R | W | ECON |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ravindra Jadeja * | 6.4 | 2 | 19 | 0 | 2.97 |
| Washington Sundar | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1.00 |
Commentary
- 41.50Ravindra Jadeja to Chris Woakes, No run.
- 41.40Ravindra Jadeja to Chris Woakes, No run.
- 41.31Ravindra Jadeja to Jamie Smith, Fired in, full and on the pads, Jamie flicks it through mid-wicket. Nitish Kumar Reddy goes after it and cuts it off with a slide. Keeps the batters down to a single.
- 41.20Ravindra Jadeja to Jamie Smith, Full and around leg, Smith blocks it out off the front foot.
- 41.14Ravindra Jadeja to Jamie Smith, FOUR! Lovely shot! Tossed up, full and on off, Smith just gets forward and drives through the vacant mid off region for a boundary.
- END OF OVER 41 | 0 Runs & 1 Wkt | ENG 153/6
- Ravindra Jadeja (6-2-14-0) to continue his spell.
- 40.60Washington Sundar to Chris Woakes, This spins back in, short and on middle, Woakes stays back to work it across to the leg side with the turn but is beaten on the inside edge. Wears it high on the front pad.
- 40.50Washington Sundar to Chris Woakes, On middle and leg, on the fuller side, Woakes dabs it down on the leg side.
- 40.40Washington Sundar to Chris Woakes, Edged but short! Another one that drifts away, on a nagging length, on off, Woakes tentatively defends away from his body. Gets an outside edge that drops short of KL Rahul, who is a bit deep at slip.
- Welcome back for the afternoon session at Edgbaston on this final day of the second Test. It has gotten fairly overcast, but it's dry and good enough for the play to resume. Let's hope that the rain stays away from playing spoilsport. Out walk the umpires and the players. The Indians spread out to their fielding positions. Jamie Smith - 32 (53), is joined by Chris Woakes at the crease. Washington Sundar (1.3-0-2-1) has the ball and will complete the remaining over. Let's play...
- ... DAY 5, SECOND SESSION ...
- Well then, it was indeed a thoroughly entertaining session, with the batters getting interrogated right through. India now stand just four quality deliveries away from scripting a historic win at a venue where success has long eluded them. The tourists will look to wrap things up quickly post-Lunch, with the tail now exposed at one end. For England, it's all about survival and digging deep with Jamie Smith, the lone specialist batter left, tasked with holding the fort. A very gripping second session of this fifth day is coming up, folks. Stay tuned as play resumes at 7.40 pm IST (2.10 pm GMT).
- Jadeja was then introduced to exploit the widening rough, especially against Ben Stokes and it was genuinely a cat and mouse between both of them. The batters, though, huffed and puffed, were interrogated thoroughly, but held fort through a tricky passage of play. With Akash Deep off the attack, England managed to keep the scoreboard ticking with singles and the occasional boundary. But just before Lunch, Washington Sundar was introduced and struck gold, scalping out Ben Stokes to hand India a commanding edge.
- In an interesting tactical move, India didn’t open with the expected Siraj-Akash combination in tandem. Instead, Prasidh Krishna shared the attack, perhaps with an eye on keeping one of the strike bowlers fresh throughout the spell. But in all fairness, Krishna, too, came in with more control, though he didn't get any wicket. The surface had aged into a classic Day 5 track, cracked, tired, and unpredictable. The ball zipped around sharply, and Akash kept hammering the right channels, constantly testing the batters.
- After a delayed start due to inclement weather, India resumed under a race-against-time scenario, shaped by revised session durations, and the ball was 16 overs old. England's attempt to blunt any remaining seam threat with a heavy roller proved futile, as India came out spirited, especially Akash Deep who continued from where he left off on Day 4. He was on the money and reaped early rewards as he dismissed Ollie Pope and also got the big fish, Harry Brook, out as well, which saw England lose half their side at 83/5, starting the day from 72/3.
- SESSION SUMMARY - 24.3 Overs, 81 Runs, 3 Wickets. A literal hammer-blow for England at the stroke of Lunch. The wicket goes in Washington Sundar's column, but in all fairness, it was assisted by a super-quick over from Jadeja. England tried very hard to wipe the India win out of the equation by batting the first session through, but the visitors responded thoroughly to strike back hard.
- 40.3WWashington Sundar to Ben Stokes, OUT! LBW! A loud shout and the finger is raised! Ben Stokes stands there a bit perplexed before walking over to Jamie Smith. Stokes takes the review. This is pushed through from around the wicket, full and drifting in on off, Stokes is a bit late to get forward in defence. The bat stays behind the front pad and the ball seems to have flicked the front pad before making contact with the bat. The UltraEdge confirms that it is pad first and it is three reds on Ball Tracking with the ball crashing into the middle stump. The English skipper takes a review with him and this is a massive blow for the hosts right at the stroke of Lunch.
- 40.20Washington Sundar to Ben Stokes, Strangled down leg? India like it but the finger stays down. Yashasvi Jaiswal at short leg is convinced but Shubman Gill decides against the review. There seemed to be a deflection and the ball passed close to the bat and the thigh pad. Short and around leg, Stokes misses out on the tickle and it is gathered well by Rishabh Pant to his right.
- 40.10Washington Sundar to Ben Stokes, Slanting in, on the pads, Ben dabs it down on the leg side.
- END OF OVER 40 | 0 Runs & 0 Wkt | ENG 153/5
- Courtesy of Ravindra Jadeja’s quick over, India will manage to squeeze in one more before the break.
- 39.60Ravindra Jadeja to Jamie Smith, Fired in, full and around leg, clipped to mid-wicket by Jamie.
- 39.50Ravindra Jadeja to Jamie Smith, This is fuller, around leg, Smith knocks it back to Jadeja.
- 39.40Ravindra Jadeja to Jamie Smith, Slower through the air, on a nagging length, around leg, Smith pushes it back to the bowler.