India 5th Test, Day 4: Recap, highlights and analysis from the evening session Inevitability of Root and Bairstow blunts brilliant BumrahĪt a glance, it's easy to see why Bumrah has been named as stand-in captain for this Test. He is now only five behind Alastair Cook's all-time career record of 33, despite having played 40 Tests fewer than his fellow former captain.Įngland vs. It would take a very brave person to bet against Root going back-to-back in this regard. No Englishman has ever scored more in a calendar year Denis Compton (1947), Michael Vaughan (2002) and Root last year are the other men to have achieved that incredible half dozen.Īnother 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ for Jonny Bairstow 🔥 /10mqKn083d Bairstow scored his sixth century of 2022. Much as Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum are being rightly credited for their transformative impact on this England team, their ability to treat the record books with disdain owes so much to Root and Bairstow's incredible form. India 5th Test, Day 5: Recap, highlights and analysis from the morning session Root and Bairstow continue record exploits
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The Sporting News is on hand to bring you live updates throughout the Edgbaston Test.Įngland win by seven wickets and tie the series 2-2 England vs. After this, and with Root and Bairstow in this form, why would anyone disbelieve them?īack-to-back boundaries for Joe Root 👏 /h5CZ98aY7W
Stokes claimed 4/33 to dismiss them for 245 on Monday and the door was left ajar for an England team that have boldly stated they will confidently chase any total. If that was another example of Test convention being torn up, India meandered in a more traditional style with runs on the board in their second innings despite a follow-up 57 from Pant. Pant hit a blistering 146 off 111 deliveries as the tourists mounted their own recovery from 98/5 to 416 all out. India, and in particular Rishabh Pant, had played them at their own game after being asked to bat when Stokes won the toss. 🏴 #ENGvIND 🇮🇳 /Phl1BNkGolĪs was the case at Headingley, when they were 55/6 in the first innings before Bairstow's century turned the game on its head, England were in first-innings trouble at 83/5 and facing a sizeable deficit.īairstow powered to three figures with a certain inevitability but England were 132 in arrears at the halfway stage.
This was England's highest successful chase of all time and the ninth-best in Test history. It was the 12th time in his career Bairstow had reached three figures, with six of those remarkably coming in 2022.īen Stokes' side hauled in successive victory targets in excess of 275 in their 3-0 series win over New Zealand, but Root and Bairstow's efforts on the back of Monday's storming opening stand between Alex Lees (56) and Zak Crawley (46) breached new ground. Root and Bairstow resumed on 259/3 and breezed beyond 300, sapping any remaining enthusiasm from an embattled India attack that did not even get their hands on the second new ball as England stormed home in 76.4 overs at an incredible run rate of 4.93.Ī 28th Test ton for Root (142 not out) was first on the agenda as he continued to play with enviable fluency, while his Yorkshire teammate Bairstow (114 not out) scampered a single to back up his century in the first innings. Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow scored centuries again as England hauled in a record victory target of 378 to beat India by seven wickets in the re-arranged fifth Test against India at Edgbaston.
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