India hammered England with a win for the ages as they defeated the guests by 434 runs at the Niranjan Shah Stadium in Rajkot. Rohit Sharma‘s males had been too sizzling to deal with for the Ben Stokes-led aspect as they neutralised the Bazball menace to register their greatest Test win. The victory noticed the Men in Blue take a 2-1 lead in the five-match sequence and an enormous stride in clinching it.
Yashasvi Jaiswal’s 214*, Shubman Gill‘s 91 and Sarfaraz Khan’s 68* helped the hosts set a frightening goal of 557 and then the bowlers did their trick. Ravindra Jadeja was then class aside. He tore by means of the England middle-order to deny them of any type of hope to assist the Indian crew bowl England out for 122. The win noticed India take a 2-1 lead and only one extra away from profitable the sequence.ÂÂ
However, England captain Ben Stokes continues to be confident that his crew can go on to make a comeback and win the sequence. ” Everyone’s got a perception and opinion about things, the people in the dressing room is what matters to us. 1-2 down in the series and a great opportunity for us to come back and win the series. We leave this game behind and we know we have to win the next 2 games to win the series and that’s what we’ll look to do,” Stokes stated in the post-match interview.
He additionally heaped reward on Ben Duckett for his fabulous knock of 153 in the first innings. “Ben Duckett played an unbelievable innings. That was the tone we wanted to set throughout the innings. It was about identifying that opportunity and getting as close to India’s total. We wanted to bowl yesterday but it was earlier than when we wanted. Sometimes gameplans don’t work and that was the case,” he added.
