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Twitter Erupts As Rampaging India Turn The Tables On England To Script A Famous Win At Lord's

By Yash Mittal

Updated - 17 Aug 2021, 02:03 AM

Twitter Erupts As Rampaging India Turn The Tables On England To Script A Famous Win At Lord's
Twitter Erupts As Rampaging India Turn The Tables On England To Script A Famous Win At Lord's

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A display of grit and mental toughness by Mohammed Shami and Jasprit Bumrah with the bat and a relentless seam-bowling display by Team India’s pace quartet ensured that the visitors notched up a barely believable 151-run-win at Lords against a dumbfounded England.

On what turned out to be yet another enthralling day of Test match cricket, England started off on a brilliant note as they dismissed the danger man Rishabh Pant and then Ishant Sharma, who scored 16 valuable runs.

But, thanks to some questionable tactics by England and outstanding rearguard action by Mohammed Shami (56*) and Jasprit Bumrah (30*), by the time Lunch was called, the fortunes of both sides had swapped.

It was a fiery first session where England restored to serve Bumrah a taste of his own medicine by bringing out the short pitch stuff.

However, the ploy backfired to the hilt as it fired up Bumrah and Shami even more as the duo took the English attack apart courtesy of exquisite strokeplay.

Mohammad Shami, Jasprit Bumrah
Mohammad Shami after reaching his fifty. [Credit: Twitter]
Shami creamed a cover-drive off Moeen Ali before smashing him for a six over long-on to bring up his 2nd 50 in Test cricket.

Shami and Bumrah’s 89-run unbeaten stand ensured that India assumed a position where they could start dictating terms.

And, dictate, they did. Virat Kohli gave a fiery pep talk to his players before the start of England’s innings where he basically asked them to ensure that the home side batsmen feel like hell during the next 60 overs.

And, it was exactly what the English batsmen felt in what was a display of high-class unrelenting seam-bowling by the Indian quartet.

Virat Kohli, India
Bumrah lets out a roar after dismissing Burns [Image-Twitter]
Jasprit Bumrah set the stage on fire as Rory Burns, in an attempt to flick the pacer to the leg side, ended up getting a thick leading edge which was safely gobbled by Mohammed Siraj at short cover.

Burns registered his 5th duck of the calendar year and he was soon joined by Dom Sibley, who nicked off to Mohammed Shami in the next over, leaving England reeling at 1-2.

It could easily have been 3-12 after Haseeb Hameed poked to the 2nd slip off the bowling of Mohammed Shami but Rohit Sharma ended up shelling it.

Joe Root and Haseeb Hameed started the rebuilding job but just as it looked that the storm had passed, the veteran Ishant Sharma struck twice before the Tea break as he trapped Hameed and Bairstow plumb in front, leaving India with 6 wickets to get in the final session. 

Jasprit Bumrah,Joe Root
Bumrah and Kohli ecstatic after Root’s dismissal [Image-Twitter]
India started the final session with a bang as Jasprit Bumrah finally ‘uprooted’ the immovable force that is Joe Root with a peach.

It was a back-of-length delivery by Bumrah outside the off-stump which lulled Root to poke at it and skipper Virat Kohli did the rest by safely claiming it at first slip.

Jos Buttler and Moeen Ali battled really hard against some high-quality seam bowling by India and they also had some luck going their way as Kohli dropped the former while Jadeja overstepped before he had induced an outside edge of the southpaw’s bat.

Siraj pumped after dismissing Moeen Ali and Sam Curran on consecutive deliveries [Image-Twitter]
However, Mohammed Siraj ensured that India was still in the reckoning for a famous win going into the final 20 overs as he removed both Ali and Sam Curran in successive deliveries, reducing England to 7/90 in the 39th over.

Ollie Robinson was welcomed with a barrage of verbal volleys from a fired-up Kohli but the tall pacer did well to keep his calm as he and Buttler blunted out the next 11 overs.

However, Bumrah eventually knocked over Robinson with a slower one before Mohammed Siraj finished the proceedings of by dismissing Buttler and James Anderson to hand India one of their greatest overseas Test wins.

Here’s how twitter reacted to India’s historic win at Lord’s:

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