IND vs ENG: Captain Ben Stokes rates Hyderabad Test win ‘England’s greatest triumph’ under his leadership

England pulled off a well-known win within the first Test match towards India at Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on Sunday. Debutant Tom Hartley took seven wickets on Day 4 to stumble India on 202 who had been chasing a 231-run goal.

Hartley’s sensational spell and a memorable 196-run knock from Ollie Pope compelled India to concede their solely fourth Test defeat at dwelling since 2013. This was the primary time in historical past that India misplaced a house Test match regardless of taking a 100-plus lead (190 runs) within the first innings.

Captain Ben Stokes additionally contributed by scoring  70 off 88 balls within the first innings to proceed his sensational report as a Test captain. England have dominantly received 14 of 20 matches since Stokes’s promotion to red-ball captain in April 2022. 

After the sport, Stokes rated at present’s win as England’s finest triumph under his captaincy as they overcame a 190-run tail within the first innings. 

“Since I’ve taken the captaincy on, we’ve had a lot of fantastic moments as a team,” Stokes instructed Harsha Bhogle throughout a post-match presentation. “We’ve had a lot of great victories, we’ve been involved in some amazing games. But I think [with] where we are and who we’re playing against, this victory is 100%, definitely our greatest triumph since I’ve been captain.”

Stokes additionally praised Hartley’s sensational spell and revealed how giving longer spells to the left-arm spinner formed England’s gameplan. After Ashwina and Bharat’s 57-run stand for the eighth wicket, Stokes returned to Hartley who supplied a breakthrough by taking the final three wickets. 

“The gameplan there is, we’re out here for a long tour and this is going to be a long game, so I was willing to give him the longer spell regardless of what had happened because I knew I was going to have to turn back to him at some point throughout this Test match. Allowing him to have the longer spell at the start was almost justification to say, you know, what I was telling you before the game started is going to happen,” Stokes added.