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IND vs ENG, 1st Test | Ollie Pope, Hartley Script Special Win For England As India Choke Again

image-lrxgem95KS Bharat knocked over by Tom Hartley on Day 4 (BCCI)

Brief Scores: England (1st innings): 246 all out (64.3 overs) [Ben Stokes: 70 (88), Jonny Bairstow: 37 (58); Ravichandran Ashwin 3/68 (21), Ravindra Jadeja 3/88 (18)] & England (2nd innings): 420 all out (102.1 overs) [Ollie Pope: 196 (278), Ben Duckett: 47 (52); Jasprit Bumrah 4/41 (16.1), Ravichandran Ashwin 3/126 (29)] defeated India (1st innings): 436 all out (121 overs) [Ravindra Jadeja: 87 (180), KL Rahul: 86 (123); Joe Root 4/79 (29), Rehan Ahmed 2/105 (24)] & India (2nd innings): 202 all out (69.2 overs) [Rohit Sharma: 39 (58), Srikar Bharat: 28 (59); Tom Hartley 7/62 (26.2), Jack Leach 1/33 (10)] by 28 runs.

Ollie Pope and debutant Tom Hartley headlined England’s spirited fightback against India, one which yielded them a 28-run win at Hyderabad to go 1-0 up in the five-match Test series.

Ollie Pope led English defiance on Day 4 with 196

England’s number three Ollie Pope ensured his side added over 100 runs to their overnight score on the fourth morning to extend their lead past the 200-run mark. After losing unbeaten partner Rehan Ahmed inside the opening hour, Pope added 80 handy runs with debutant Tom Hartley before a triple-wicket burst from Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Jasprit Bumrah enveloped the visitors for 420.

Pope himself listed 196 runs from 278 balls to top-score in the innings, thus setting up a 231-run target for the Indians with five sessions still left in the match.

Tom Hartley takes six in dramatic English fightback

English debutant Tom Hartley cut through India’s top-order; dismissing Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill and Axar Patel to reduce the hosts to 95-4 at one stage. Joe Root trapped KL Rahul in front of stumps a while later before a mix-up and some sharp turn from Jack Leach orchestrated Ravindra Jadeja and Shreyas Iyer’s downfalls respectively.

Wicketkeeper KS Bharat and all-rounder Ravichandran Ashwin subsequently kept ticking away runs and led India’s defiance with a cautious 57-run stand, formed over the space of nearly 22 overs together.

However, Hartley extinguished India’s attempted fightback with a three-wicket burst to script a 28-run series-leading win for his country. The left-arm himself concluded with sizzling figures of 7-62 from an industrious 26-over bowling day.