Indian cricket workforce recorded a dominant win within the fifth Test match against England to conclude a five-match series with a 4-1 win on Saturday.
After a surprising win within the series opener in Hyderabad, England misplaced the third match in Rajkot by 434 runs and the last recreation in Dharamsala by an innings and 64 runs. This was England’s first Test series loss below Ben Stokes’s captaincy, ending the Three Lions’ bazball dominance in red-ball cricket.
After some shut battles all through the series, the hosts completely dominated the ultimate match in Dharamsala to end the sport earlier than tea on Day 3. England captain Ben Stokes accepted a defeat and agreed that a greater facet outplayed his workforce within the series.
However, the English skipper added that his workforce won’t cease taking part in aggressive cricket ahead. Stokes stated that they won’t let this series loss dent their dominance in Test cricket for the last two years.
“Now that the series has come to an end, I don’t give too much away, obviously, whilst the series is going on,” Stokes stated within the post-match presentation. “But since the first Test match of the series, we’re man enough and we’re big enough to say that we’ve been outplayed by the better team in the series, we ain’t gonna let the last two years go to waste over this series in isolation.”
Meanwhile, the star all-rounder praised his workforce for producing ‘small moments of comeback’ all through the series and stated that they weren’t ready to continue that momentum.
“When you look at the game as a whole, and the series as a whole, there’s been really small moments throughout every Test match where we wrestled a bit of momentum back towards us, but we’ve not just been able to maintain and keep that going,” Stokes stated. “And in Test-match cricket, particularly out right here the place the sport can flip actually quick on you, it is about understanding that and attempting to perceive these moments and being a bit extra relentless with it. How that appears, I’m unsure, however we’re all right here on the highest stage taking part in cricket. I believe everyone knows as people that that is in all probability the place it is gone improper for us, on a couple of event.
